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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Summary

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This reading started out with Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, Jordan, and Nick having lunch at the Buchanan’s home. The atmosphere of lunch was tense because Tom could tell there was something between Gatsby. Because of this, Daisy suggested they all go to town. On their way there Gatsby and Daisy rode separately from everyone else in Tom’s car. They got to the hotel and tempers blew up from there. It was hot in the room and all of them had been drinking. After little conversation, Gatsby ended up yelling at Tom saying that Daisy never loved him. Tom wouldn’t have that. He insisted that Gatsby was wrong and that Daisy did love him. This ended with all of them storming out of the hotel and going separate ways. Gatsby and Daisy drove his yellow car home and on their way home accidently hit and killed Myrtle Wilson. …show more content…

As this incident blew up Mr. Wilson was searching for the man who owned the yellow car. Gatsby was speaking to Nick Carraway later on about the incident and confessed that Daisy was the one actually driving the car, but Gatsby was obviously going to take the blame for her. As the search for the person with the yellow car carried on, Gatsby tried to lay low and Daisy and Tom left for Chicago. A few days later, Wilson somehow figured out that it was Gatsby’s car. He came to his house, while Gatsby was relaxing by his pool, and shot him dead right on the spot. After Gatsby’s death, Nick continuously searched for people that Gatsby was friends with to come to his funeral. He come up with hardly any at all. Only a few people came to his funeral and soon after it was held, Nick Carraway moved back

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His feelings towards Gatsby were negative and full of hate, so he set the target on him when he told Wilson that it was a yellow car who had killed his wife and that he was a friend of the person who owned it. Which also leads to the death of George Wilson since it drives him to insanity and sets him on a mission to go and find that yellow car which didn’t take him that long. Since Tom was the real lover of Myrtle. He was the one driving the yellow car earlier

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The yellow car belongs to Jay Gatsby. Mr. Wilson is extremely amazed at his wife’s death. Myrtles death led to the temptation of Mr. Wilson falling into the thought that Gatsby murdered his wife. Therefore, Mr. Wilson gained the courage to denounce Gatsby and leave him in disdain.

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Gatsby began talking about how he had met Daisy, and how when he first kissed her he knew he had wanted to be with this girl forever…”He knew when he had kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” Tom realises he is beginning to slip away from both of the women in his life. He is losing both of them. Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and Nick all go to Tom and Daisy’s house where Daisy was supposed to confess her feelings for Gatsby. But instead they then take a ride to a Plaza hotel where things become very violent and Daisy says she loves Gatsby

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“I killed the girl, not Gatsby. I killed the girl on the road, you’ve heard, you must have heard.” “Yes Daisy, it's everywhere, George Wilson's wife, cops everywhere looking for Gatsby because it's his car.” Daisy cried in disbelief. “I'm going to jail, Tom.

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After a while Gatsby had enough and snapped yelling and throwing a couple of things. Daisy gets scared of Gatsby and loses all love for him at that moment. Daisy and Gatsby leave the apartment taking Gatbsy’s car, leaving Jordan,Nick, and Tom to stay back. When Daisy and Gatsby left, Gatsby let Daisy drive which was a bad idea because she ended up killing Myrtle. Myrtle ran out into the street thinking it was Tom driving Gatbsy’s car when it was Daisy and got hit.

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Tom is upset with Gatsby following their conversation concerning Daisy and whom she loves. George Wilson questions Tom with regards to the death of his wife, “That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine -- do you hear? I haven’t seen it all afternoon” (Fitzgerald 140). Tom reassures George that he does not own the yellow car responsible for the death of Myrtle.

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She loves me”. Daisy is unable to say she had never loved Tom. Tom reveals Gatsby is a bootlegger, and Daisy finds herself drawn back to Tom. Daisy and Gatsby return home in Gatsby’s car per Tom’s request. Tom says “Go on.

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They get bored at Daisy and Tom’s, so they decide to go into town. After they pull up into town, they end up in a suite at the Plaza hotel in an attempt to cool off a little. The tensions between Gatsby and Tom begin to rise even more than they already had when Tom accuses Gatsby of lying about being an Oxford man. Gatsby defends himself and declares that he was at Oxford, but only for a few months. Later, Gatsby starts to force Daisy to choose between himself and Tom.

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“He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave, and when I sent down word that we weren’t in he tried to force his way upstairs””(Fitzgerald 178). Gatsby gets betrayed by the woman he loved, who fails to tell George the truth about what happened to his wife. Tom backstabbed Gatsby in order to keep Daisy, and push her even further from Gatsby. He told Wilson that it was Gatsby’s car that killed his wife, but left out the fact that Daisy was the one driving it. After Wilson left Tom and Daisy he came to Gatsby’s house and shot him, ending his life and his goal to be with Daisy.

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In the book The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby loses his life to Wilson. Mr. Gatsby is killed because Tom Buchanan told Wilson that Gatsby was the one driving the car when Myrtle his wife was struck by the car. It was Gatsby’s, but he wasn’t the one driving, the one driving was Daisy. Wilson believes that Gatsby is the one who hit his wife with the car. George may have killed Gatsby, but the other characters had their part in his death.

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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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Tom makes sure to tell Wilson that it was not his fault and somebody else, the person that was driving the yellow car. Tom knows that his wife actually committed the crime, from talking to Gatsby later on, but the sound of his wife in jail is not in favor of the American Dream at this time. To avoid this, Tom says he knows who this person driving was: Gatsby. Later on in the story, Wilson knows who killed Myrtle because of the hints and words Tom told to the policeman. “‘I’m a friend of his.’

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Annotated Bibliography Burnham, Douglas. " Gottfried Leibniz: Metaphysics." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Accessed April 25, 2018.

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He was swimming in his pool waiting on Daisy to call but she never did. While he was swimming Wilson, the husband of Myrtle, shot Gatsby. This was the end of his dream. He lost his life and he would never have his

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