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Chapter 8 The Great Gatsby

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1. The most significant plot in chapter 8 is the death of Myrtle. Myrtle is killed by a speeding car right outside of her home. George Wilson is grief stricken and immediately connects the dots that point to Myrtle having an affair. George immediately accuses Tom of having the affair with myrtle but tom deflects the attention on Gatsby. George then brutally murders jay while he is awaiting a call from daisy informing him of her decision on whether she will leave Tom or not. 2. Gatsby tells Nick the story of why he changed his name. Since Tom attempted to expose his mysterious origins. Gatsby tells nick that Daisy was he first “nice” girl he met. 3. The first night that George goes through after his wife is brutally killed is a rough one. George
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Like Thomas Foster said “ Geography can also define or even develop character.” In chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby we were introduced to “the valley of ashes”, which was George Wilson’s Repair garage. When Fitzgerald was describing the garage it was as though he was describing George himself. One line that really stood out to me was “this shadow of a garage must be blind…”. I feel like this line is indirectly trying to tell the readers how George is not aware of his wife’s affair with Tom.

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In the beginning of chapter 7, NIck notices Gatsby has no parties going on and learns that Gatsby doesn't need the parties to attract Daisy. On the hottest of the summer Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, Jordan go to the buchanan’s house for lunch. As the afternoon goes on Tom realises that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair. Tom sets out to win her back. Daisy asks if they can all go to NYC for the rest of the day.

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We can draw the conclusion that George knew about his wife’s affair because he was the one who told Michaelis to check the drawer. George was very hurt by his wife’s death that he went to seek the killer of his wife. He went to find the yellow car that Tom had told him was the culprit. Tom took the blame off himself by telling George, “Listen”, said Tom, shaking him a little. “I just got back from New York.

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Chapter 4 describes Nick’s first personal encounter with Gatsby. One after noon, Gatsby decided to take Nick to lunch in the city. On the way, Gatsby explained his life story to Nick claiming to have come from a wealthy family in the Midwest, to have attended Oxford, and to have earned medals of honor in WWI. During lunch Nick meets a man named Mr.Wolfsheim, one of Gatsby’s business partners who was rumored to have fixed the World Series in 1919. In addition, Gatsby asks Nick to speak to Jordan regarding an urgent matter.

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Seeing red, George mercilessly kills Gatsby, whom he believes was having an affair with her and killed her, without hesitation. George’s love for Myrtle makes him crazy, at least crazy enough to kill another man. Myrtle falls victim to romantic feelings leading to wild

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In chapter two of How To Read like Professor, Foster explains to readers that act of communion can be any time people decide to eat or drink together. He continues on to explain some concepts such as that eating is so uninteresting that there has to be some reason authors write about it, that acts of communion only happen with people you're comfortable with, and that there maybe an underlying emotion or message hidden in these meals. All of these ideas can be found in chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby where Tom Buchanan invites everyone over for lunch; things escalate while sipping wine and waiting for the food. Eating brunch with you best friend might sound fun, but Foster brings up the point that it is infact fairly boring to write an eating scene. This causes readers to assume

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The story starts off with the reader learning about how Nick’s lifestyle has been shaped. We learn that his father has taught him to not judge other people. His moral standards are different from other people so his father thinks he would misunderstand them. We learn about his moral values when he goes with Tom to attend a social gathering. Nick has only gotten drunk other than one time prior to this party.

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Gatsby uses the last five years of his life trying to achieve his one goal of obtaining Daisy as his wife and spending the rest of his life with her, but what happens to him instead is unexpected and undeserved. Jay Gatsby got shot and killed by George Wilson. Gatsby did not sleep with Myrtle, he is an honorable man and would not sleep with another man’s wife. Gatsby also did not kill Myrtle, if he did he would have stopped the car and not just kept driving. Daisy did not talk to Gatsby ever again after the accident.

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When Nick,Tom, and Jordan drive through the Valley of Ashes Tom find that Gatsby car has hit and killed Myrtle. When Tom Nick, and Jordan got back to Long Island, Nick finds out from Gatsby that Daisy was the one driving when Myrtle got hit, but he was going to take the blame for it all. The next day, Tom tells George Wilson that the car that hit his wife belonged to Gatsby. George Wilson thought that Gatsby might of been the one having the affair with Myrtle. He then goes over to Gatsby mansion, finds him in the pool and shoots him dead inside his pool.

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Also when Myrtle is hit by the car that he thinks is Tom’s, he shows up to Tom’s house with a gun. When Tom points George in the direction of Gatsby, George kills Gatsby and then himself. “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete” (Fitzgerald

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The tragedy of the book is when Gatsby indirectly partakes in the murder of Myrtle Wilson. Gatsby was driving home with Daisy following the aftermath of an intense argument about love. Gatsby’s response to Tom, Daisy’s husband, frightened Daisy to the point where she panicked. She drove home with him, and in the heat of the moment, they ran over and killed Myrtle. Gatsby’s idea that he could get together with a married woman and settle it brought fatal consequences to the story.

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Myrtle's husband (Wilson) has killed Gatbsy for the death of his wife and then himself. Overall it is not just one sad car accident, but now three people are dead. Not only did Gatsby try to fix his failed dream from the past end badly for him but everyone around him. Nick states, “After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes power of correction.” Nick is affected overall, Myrtle and her husband, Daisy and Tom, and Gatsby himself.

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He then proceeded to shoot himself. With Gatsby, Myrtle, and George dead Tom and Daisy decide it is time for them to leave. Only a

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(PAGE NUMBER) Tom tells nick that Gatsby had it coming to him, and he deserves to take the blame for the murder of Myrtle. Tom and Daisy’s careless not only affects them but the people around them even leading to the death of Daisy’s good friend and ex lover Jay

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