Chapter 8

This chapter and chapter 7 are the climax of the novel. Explain how something mentioned earlier might have hinted at these climatic events.

Gatsby's, Myrtles and Wilsons death were all mainly involved in the myopic view of Daisy and Tom. Daisy and Tom have shown throughout the book to be very in the moment people. Daisy does seem to be very interested in Gatsby but I always felt like there was something not quite right about it. She didn't care enough that Tom was noticing, she didn't care enough at how much it would destroy her life to leave for Gatsby and I felt like Gatsby wasn't looking at the same person I was. That proved to me that Tom and Daisy were going to run over as many people as possible in their path, but I wasn't sure who was going to die. Gatsby's death was given away in chapter two when Nick told us that it wasn't what Gatsby did but what he left behind him that got him. Tom really caused Myrtle's and Tom's death by having an affair with Myrtle. This affair caused the row between Myrtle and Tom which is why she ran into the street. The book did give a lot of foreshadowing but it is only after the fact that you can really look at what happened and say "oh I see now how that came about."