After the fight in the hotel between Tom and Gatsby, Daisy feels helpless and decides to go back to East Egg with Gatsby. Gatsby describes her as “very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive and this woman rushed out” (143). Gatsby is shown as careless because he doesn’t care about the fact that they killed a woman. He only worries about Daisy and wants her to calm down by letting her to drive the car. Gatsby continues to explain to Nick, “‘Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back’”(143). Daisy “loses her nerve” emphasizing that she is not able to choose between Gatsby and Tom. She can not withdraw herself from it so she decides to drive while being emotionally unstable. From the description, we can tell Daisy has the option to avoid the tragedy however, because of her careless decision and volatile emotion, she crashes Myrtle. After crashing into Myrtle, Gatsby continues his explanation to Nick, “...I pulled on the emergency brake. Then she fell over into my lap and I drove on”(144). Gatsby does not even care the death of Myrtle when he “ drove on” after the crash, which is shown that he is not terrify by the accident. He speaks as if Daisy’s mood is the even more important than the car accident that they
After the fight in the hotel between Tom and Gatsby, Daisy feels helpless and decides to go back to East Egg with Gatsby. Gatsby describes her as “very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive and this woman rushed out” (143). Gatsby is shown as careless because he doesn’t care about the fact that they killed a woman. He only worries about Daisy and wants her to calm down by letting her to drive the car. Gatsby continues to explain to Nick, “‘Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back’”(143). Daisy “loses her nerve” emphasizing that she is not able to choose between Gatsby and Tom. She can not withdraw herself from it so she decides to drive while being emotionally unstable. From the description, we can tell Daisy has the option to avoid the tragedy however, because of her careless decision and volatile emotion, she crashes Myrtle. After crashing into Myrtle, Gatsby continues his explanation to Nick, “...I pulled on the emergency brake. Then she fell over into my lap and I drove on”(144). Gatsby does not even care the death of Myrtle when he “ drove on” after the crash, which is shown that he is not terrify by the accident. He speaks as if Daisy’s mood is the even more important than the car accident that they