Chapter 2 of "The Great Gatsby" is mostly about a party that Nick attends in New York City. Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to the Morningside Heights apartment he keeps for his affair with Myrtle, and they have an impromptu party with Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, and a couple named McKee. The party underscores Tom’s hypocrisy and lack of restraint, and Nick feels morally repelled by the vulgarity and tastelessness of the party, but he is too fascinated by it to leave. The topic of conversation eventually turns to Nicks neighbor Gatsby, and rumors swirl around him. As Myrtle gets more and more drunk, she also gets increasingly loud, and after Tom gives her a puppy as a gift, she starts talking about Daisy. Tom warns her that she doesnt have the right to. The chapter also describes the Valley of Ashes, a desolate plain where New Yorks ashes are dumped, and the train ride from Long Island to New York City.