The Great Gatsby

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   Ch.7 marks the beginning of the resolution of "The Great Gatsby." Tom learns the truth about his wife Daisy's past affair with Gatsby. To make matters worse Gatsby tells Tom:"Your wife doesn't love you... She loves me." Perhaps it was then that  Tom who had always hated Gatsby decided to finish him off. By chance Tom's  lover Myrtle Wilson is run over and killed. Circumstantial evidence indicates that it was Gatsby who had knocked her down and killed her. Later Gatsby tells Nick  that it was actually Daisy who was driving and it was she who had killed Myrtle. Gatsby says that he will take the blame because he loves her, little realising that Tom and Daisy are now reconciled and had also become intimate "and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together."

    The 'conspiracy' is revealed  in Ch.9.  Nick confronts Tom, "What did you say to Wilson that afternoon" and Tom reveals that he had told Wilson that it was Gatsby who ran over his wife and killed her. Wilson thirsting for revenge goes to Gatsby's house and shoots him when he is in the pool and then shoots himself.Nick concludes:"I couldn't forgive him........the mess they had made.

   Ch. 9 contains Nick's description of Gatsby's funeral and his breakup with his lover Jordan Baker and his departure to his home in Minnesota. The midwest might seem dreary and dull and the East seductive and glittering but it possesses a moral center which the East lacks.

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   Posted by lit24 on Wednesday July 23, 2008 at 7:54 AM
   
   

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