Are there any plant toxins that cause similar neurological symptoms to tetrodotoxin or chlorotoxin? Biochemically, why might these be similar? What are some of the ways in which humans have exploited poisons such as tetrodotoxin and snake venoms in the past? Further reading. Venoms and the blood; About this resource
Nick is our guide in The Great Gatsby; he relates the story as he has seen it and from what others have told him. He strives at all times to be objective and to make balanced comments just as he said in the beginning of the book, ^I^m inclined to reserve all judgements.^ The role of Nick Carraway is so important to the book that the character of Jay Gatsby could not exist.
The party strikes Nick as particularly unpleasant. Tom is disdainful of the party, and though Daisy and Gatsby dance together she also seems to have a bad time. As Tom and Daisy are leaving, Tom says he suspects Gatsby's fortune comes from bootlegging, which Nick denies. Daisy says Gatsby made his money from drug stores that he built up himself. Nick has clearly come to sympathize with Gatsby against Tom. Tom's disdain for the party is to be expected. But that Daisy has a bad time suggests that Gatsby might not so easily be able to recreate their love. There may be too many obstacles.