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.
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.
When George finds out that she has been cheating on him, instead of divorcing her, beating her, or getting angry with her, he decides to fulfill her dream of getting out of the Valley of the Ashes. Desperate to make her happy, he tries to give her what she wants even though it is something that they cannot afford and never would be able to afford. George does not consider the financial burden, for he is just grasping at anything to keep his wife. Myrtle has been talking about leaving town for 10 years, so George finally taking her (131). In the wake of Myrtle’s death, George is beside himself.
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
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.
In “Chapter 20” of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster examines the intertextuality of “Sonnet 73” from Shakespeare, “The Book of Ecclesiastes” from The Hebrew Bible, and Hotel du Lac from Anita Brookner, to explain that “for as long as anyone’s been writing anything, the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings” (Foster 186). People believe “that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness...,” and “winter with old age and resentment and death” (186). In the lyrical novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald applies the seasons of summer and fall to add rich, symbolic meaning to the events that unfold
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.
Daisy drives, and, on the way home, accidentally runs over and kills Tom’s lover, Myrtle. Gatsby takes the fall for her but pays for it with his life when Myrtle’s husband George takes the law into his hands and kills Gatsby just before taking his own life. The novel ends as Daisy and Tom move on with their lives and Nick moves away from New York, realizing he wasn’t made for the big city
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.
George has no money and no control over his wife. Everyone seems to walk all over his, as if he isn’t even there. I think George knows that his wife is not happy, but he chooses to ignore it. However, when he finds the dog collar and figures out Myrtle is cheating on him, part of his anger shows. He thinks he can fix his marriage by locking his wife up and taking his wife to leave town.
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.
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.
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
(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
The ultimate setting of a story creates an atmosphere for the plot and characters. This atmosphere can change over time, evolving characters and influencing their behavior, or remain stagnant and still have the same effect. Jay Gatsby, from The Great Gatsby, Abigail Williams, The Crucible, and Emilia, Othello, all three display idea that the society a character develops in and the setting of a story can shape them into becoming a victim, villain, or venerable (respectively). Different from the ‘Great” in the title name, and argument can be made for Gatsby to be an illusive victim.
