When Nick and McKee meet in the New York apartment in chapter two, readers can interpret how the two interact with each other. Fitzgerald left the end of chapter two ambiguous; Nick and McKee leave the apartment together and Nick only remembers segments of the rest of their time together. Nick starts by following McKee out of the room to the elevator, which you don't usually do when you've only known that person for an afternoon. McKee then invites him to come to lunch "anywhere" indicating that he wants to see Nick more and doesn't care where (Fitzgerald 42). While leaving the apartment in the elevator, McKee is scolded by the elevator boy for putting his hand on the lever. This encounter can be seen in a sexual light. For some readers it is an unnecessary part of the novel. For others, it is McKee who makes a sexual reference towards Nick. In The Sexual Drama of Nick and Gatsby, it is agreed that “in this context the image must be sexual” (Wasiolek 19). After the elevator scene, Fitzgerald begins the next section with an ellipsis. It has been stated that we “reread rather than read” many passages of the novel (Froehlich 5). Nick informs readers that he is next to McKee's bed and that McKee is only in his underwear. Again, this information seems irrelevant, but it points to the