Daisy is shown to be a theatrical character and appears very naive and ignorant. This is shown through her treatment of her husband's affair. After Tom's mistress has called the house while Daisy and guests were at the table, though Daisy "glances searchingly at Miss Baker then at [Nick]" as though she seems to be panicking, she looks outside and describes the nightingale on the lawn as "romantic" and share this feeling of romance with Tom, though moments before he was on the phone to his mistress. The fact that Miss Baker thought "everybody knew" about the affair, and was surprised when Nick did not, suggests that the affair is not well hidden, either due to accident, or lack of sparing his wife's feeling, in any case, it portrays Daisy's habit of putting 'her head in the sand' and not addressing Tom, as fear of the outcome.
Also the fact that when Miss Baker tried explaining that "Tom's got some women in New York" to Nick and Nick replied "blankly" "Got some woman?", unable to grasp the meaning of what Miss Baker was saying shows that there is a world hidden for Nick. That though he is within, he is also without as some concepts of this world are hard for Nick to comprehend.
Chapter two (pg22) is the introduction of the Valley of Ashes where the Wilson's live. The area is described to be full of "hills and grotesque gardens". The contrasting images of "grotesque" and "gardens" is strong, as "gardens" are normally associated with beauty, but placed with the adjective "grotesque", the two ideas clash. The description of the town makes it become non-existent, similar to a ghosts town as it is referred to as a "solemn dumping ground"(pg22)
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