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Significance Of Chapter 7 In The Great Gatsby

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One man pulled the trigger, but there were others behind the gun that led to Gatsby’s death. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald recounting the story of the rich living in East and West Egg New York in the 1920’s, ending in Gatsby’s murder by George Wilson. Though they didn’t touch the gun, Fitzgerald writes the characters of Daisy, Tom, and even Gatsby himself, as if they loaded it. Daisy crashed Gatsby’s car into George Wilson’s wife Myrtle, killing her. Other than Daisy, only Gatsby knew she was driving when it happened, but his blind love for her sealed his fate. To support this, here is a quote from chapter 7 between Gatsby and the story’s narrator Nick Carraway. Nick asks, “Was Daisy driving?” “‘Yes,’ he [Gatsby] …show more content…

Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, and does care about her, to some degree. So he tells George Wilson -- Myrtle’s husband -- that the car that killed Myrtle belonged to Gatsby. Tom has a great effect on the plot when he says this to George, basically putting bullets in George’s gun. This quote is Tom telling George the truth: “‘Listen,’ said Tom, shaking a little. ‘I just got here a minute ago, from New York. I was bringing you that coupé we’ve been talking about. That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine -- do you hear? I haven’t seen it all afternoon.”’ (140) This is of course, Tom’s way at getting back at Gatsby for having an affair with Daisy. Also, George trusts Tom, believing what he says. The following quote is one of the things that Tom found out about Gatsby when he decided to do some research about his past. “‘I found out what your 'drug-stores' were.’ He turned to us and spoke rapidly. ‘He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter…’” (284) This quote shows Tom undermining Gatsby’s wealth -- bootlegging isn’t as honorable as old money -- as he’s growing less patient with Gatsby’s attention to Daisy, and wants to get under his skin, so he can find out about the other illegal ways Gatsby’s earned his …show more content…

This quote is from a scene where Gatsby is trying to convince Daisy that she never loved Tom -- not even for a second. "’Oh, you want too much!’ she cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.’ She began to sob helplessly. ‘I did love him once – but I loved you too.’" (133) In his mind, Gatsby always pictures Daisy as being all-in and devoted to him as he is to her. In reality, she did love Tom at one point as well, and though he wants her to leave her husband and his money, it is all Jay’s fantasy, his life with

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