Examples Of Dialectical Journal For The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby Journals
Chapter One: The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He starts off the story by stating that he learned from his father to not judge other people because he could make the mistake of misunderstanding someone. Nick characterizes himself as highly moral and highly tolerant. He briefly mentions Gatsby. In the summer of 1922, Nick moved to New York to work in the bond business. He rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg. The West Egg is home to those who have recently become come rich while the East Egg is conservative and snotty. Nick lives right next door to Gatsby’s mansion. Nick graduated from Yale and has many connections on East Egg. One Night Nick drives …show more content…
out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Tom was once a part of Nick’s social club at Yale. Nick then meets Daisy’s friend Jordan Baker. Tom tries to get everyone to read a book called The Rise of the Colored Empires, which was a about white-supremacist attitudes. Tom is interrupted by a strange phone call, Jordan then confirms to Nick that the phone call is from Tom’s lover in New York.
Chapter Two: Between West Egg and New York City is a gray valley where New York’s ashes are dumped.
The men who live there work at shoveling up the ashes. Over the valley, there’s an old billboard advertisement of two big, blue, spectacle eyes by a long vanished eye doctor looking down from the huge sign. The eyes on the billboard belonged to Doctor T.J. Eckleburg which watched over everything that happens in the valley of ashes. There’s a commuter train that runs between the West Egg and New York which passes through the valley. One day, while Nick and Tom rode the train into the city, Tom forces Nick to follow him to one of these stops. Toms leads Nick to George Wilson’s garage which is located on the edge of the valley of ashes. Tom’s lover Myrtle is Wilson’s wife. Wilson is a lifeless man colored grey by the ashes in the air. Tom makes fun of Wilson and orders Myrtle to follow him to the train. Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to New York City, to the Morningside Heights apartment where he keeps his affair. Catherine, Myrtle’s sister and a couple name McKee throws an unplanned party at the apartment. Catherine tells Nick she has heard that Jay Gatsby is the nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm, the ruler of Germany during World War I. The McKee’s are a horrid couple. The group drank excessively. Myrtle gets more obnoxious as she drinks, after Tom gives her a puppy as a gift, she starts talking about Daisy. Toms tells her to stop talking about his wife, Myrtle refused and as a …show more content…
result Tom breaks her nose. The party is cut short and Nick takes the 4am train back to Long Island.
Chapter Three: Gatsby became famous around New York is that he throws huge lavish parties every weekend where people crave for an invite. Gatsby’s chauffeur brings Nick an invitation to one of these parties. Nick joins the festivities but felt a little out of place while strangers exchange rumors about their host. No one knew the truth about Gatsby’s wealth or personal history. Nick ran into Jordan Baker, whose friend, Lucille, speculates that Gatsby was a German spy during the war. Nick also hears that Gatsby is graduate of Oxford and that he once killed a man in old blood. Gatsby’s party is unbelievably luxurious, the guests when crazy over the nice and expensive things Gatsby had. Nick and Jordan, were curious about their host and set out to find him. Instead they ran into a middle-aged man with huge glasses (Nick named him owl eyes) in aw with the unread books in Gatsby’s library. Nick and Jordan when outside to go watch the entertainment. They ran into a man who says Nick looked familiar to him and the man introduces himself as none other than Jay Gatsby. Nick was fascinated with Gatsby. He noticed that Gatsby doesn’t drink and keeps himself separate from the party. As the party wined down Jordan is told that Gatsby wants to see her. Nick leaves the party and heads home. On his way home he sees Owl Eyes struggling to get his car out of a ditch. Nick goes into describing his daily life to show that he does more with his time than party. He takes Daisy and Tom’s advice and begins seeing Jordan Baker. He talks about how Jordan is fundamentally a dishonest person yet he still feels attracted to her despite her dishonesty, even though he claims to be one of the few honest people he has ever known.
Chapter Four: Nick begins listing all of the people who attended Gatsby’s party that summer. A roll call of the nation’s most wealthy and powerful people. Nick then talks about his trip to New York City to have lunch with Gatsby. Gatsby tells Nick about his past. His story seems unbelievable. Gatsby claimed to be the son of wealthy deceased parents from the Midwest. When Nick asks which Midwestern city he is from he says “San Francisco.” After seeing Nick’s skepticism, Gatsby shows him a medal from Montenegro and a picture of him playing cricket at Oxford. Gatsby’s car speeds through the valley of ashes. When a police officer pulls Gatsby over for speeding, he shows him a white card and the policeman apologizes for bothering him. In the city, Gatsby takes Nick to lunch where he introduces Nick to Meyer Wolfshiem. Gatsby claim that Wolfshiem was responsible for fixing the 1919 World Series. Wolfshiem is shady guy with underground business connections. He gives Nick the impression that Gatsby’s wealth comes from the organized crime that Wolfshiem is associated with. Still in New York, Nick then runs into Jordan Baker who finally told Nick about her mysterious conversation with Gatsby. She tell Nick about how Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan. Jordan goes on to say, during the war, before Daisy married Tom, she was a beautiful girl from Louisville, Kentucky, and all the military officers were in love with her. Daisy fell in love with Lieutenant Jay Gatsby, he was station near her home. She choice to marry Tom after Gatsby left for war, she drank herself into numbness the night before her wedding, after she received a letter from Gatsby. Daisy remained faithful throughout her marriage, but Tom has not. Gatsby bought his mansion in West Egg just to be near Daisy. Nick remembers the night he saw Gatsby stretching his arms out onto the water and realized that the green light he saw was the light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Gatsby has asked Jordan to convince Nick to arrange a reunion between Gatsby and Daisy. All because he is scared that Daisy will not want to see him, Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy to tea. Gatsby plans to come to the party without Daisy knowing.
Chapter Five: Nick heads him from the city. He notices that Gatsby’s mansion lit up brightly, but it seems as though no one is home. Gatsby creeps up on Nick. Gatsby seem desperate to make Nick happy so that he can agree to go along with Gatsby’s tea party plan. Gatsby continues bribing him with all sorts over things. When Nick tells him that he will help him. Gatsby also offers Nick the chance to make some money by joining him in some business on the side (not with Wolfshiem). Nick is slightly offended and declines the offer but still agrees to invite Daisy to his house. It rains on the day of the meeting, and Gatsby becomes nervous. He sends someone over to cut the grass and bring flowers. He’s worried that Daisy won’t be the same towards him like in Louisville. Daisy arrives and the reunion becomes extremely awkward. After Nick leaves for about an hour, he returns to find both Gatsby and Daisy happy. Daisy cried tears of joy. The rain stopped, and Gatsby invites Nick and Daisy over to his house. He showed them his possessions. Daisy becomes overwhelmed by his luxurious lifestyle. Gatsby tells Daisy about his the long nights he spends outside staring into the green light dreaming of their future happiness together. Nick wonders if Daisy can live up to Gatsby’s vision of her. Gatsby idealized Daisy in his mind to the point that the real Daisy probably couldn’t compare. At the moment it seems like their romance has fully rekindled. Gatsby calls on his personal piano player, Klipspringer and has him play a song called “Ain’t We Got Fun?” Nick realizes that Gatsby and Daisy have forgotten that he is there so he quietly leaves them together.
Chapter Six: The rumors about Gatsby continue to circulate all around New York.
A reporter even travels to Gatsby’s mansion hoping to interview him. Nick interrupts the story to tell the truth about Gatsby, as it all really happened. Gatsby was born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm. He attended college at St. Olaf’s in Minnesota, but dropped out after two weeks. He worked as a janitor to pay for his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior the next summer fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day, he saw a wealthy copper mogul name Dan Cody, on his yacht and went out to warn him of the storm ahead. Cody took Gatz, named him Jay Gatsby, and made him his personal assistant. Traveling with Cody to the Barbary Coast and the West Indies, Gatsby fell in love with wealth and luxury. Cody was a heavy drinker, and one of Gatsby’s jobs was to look after him on his drunken days. This made Gatsby not to ever drink because he’s aware of the dangers of drinking. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody’s mistress didn’t allow him to collect his inheritance. Gatsby used his experience as motivation to become a wealthy successful man. Nick doesn’t see Gatsby or Daisy for a while since the reunion at his house. One afternoon Nick visits Gatsby’s house and finds Tom there along with the Sloanes. Gatsby lets Tom know that he knows Daisy. Tom is aware of Daisy’s solo visits to Gatsby’s mansion. He is suspicious but doesn’t know about Gatsby and Daisy’s love. Tom and Daisy attend a
party at Gatsby’s house. Tom has no interest in the party, his dislike for Gatsby causes him to spy on Daisy. Daisy is not having a good time at the party. Tom upsets her more by saying that Gatsby’s wealth comes from bootlegging. Gatsby looks for Nick after Tom and Daisy leaves the party. He is upset that Daisy did not have a good time. He wants everything to go back to how it was in Louisville. Gatsby wants Daisy to leave Tom so that he can be with her. Nick tells Gatsby that he cannot re-create the past. Gatsby believes that he can, he believes that his money can get him anything as far as Daisy is concerned.
Chapter Seven: Gatsby calls off his parties, the parties were only to lure Daisy back into his life. He also fires his servants to prevent gossip and replaces them shady people connected to Wolfshiem. It was the hottest day of the summer and Nick takes the train to East Egg for lunch at Tom and Daisy’s house. He finds Gatsby and Jordan there too. Gatsby couldn’t believe his eyes when his sees Daisy’s daughter. Daisy seemed uninterested in her child. Daisy asks Gatsby if he wanted to go on a trip with her to New York and Gatsby agrees. Tom realizes that Daisy and Gatsby have real feelings for each other. Tom is annoyed by Gatsby and Daisy. He plays off her idea and suggests that they all should take a trip to New York together. Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby’s car, and Gatsby and Daisy rode together in Tom’s car. When they stopped for gas at Wilson’s garage, Nick, tom, and Jordan find out that Wilson knows about his affairs. He doesn’t know who the guy is though. Wilson plans to move Myrtle to the West. Under the billboard of Doctor T.J Eckleburg, Nick sees that Tom and Wilson are in the same position. In the city the group get a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom uses that time to confront Gatsby. Tom asks Gatsby about his intentions for Daisy, and Gatsby responds by saying that Daisy love him, not Tom. Tom accuses Gatsby of running a bootlegging business. Daisy was all for Gatsby earlier finds herself getting closer to Tom. Tom lets Daisy got back to Long Island with Gatsby to prove that he cannot hurt them as a couple. Nick realizes that it’s his 30th birthday. On the way back to Long Island, Nick, Tom and Jordan find someone has been hit by a car. The victim was Myrtle. Nick realizes that Myrtle had to have been hit by Gatsby and Daisy. Tom thinks that Wilson will remember the yellow car from that afternoon. He also thinks that Gatsby was the driver. Outside of Tom’s house, Nick finds Gatsby hiding in the bushes. Gatsby claims that he’s been waiting there just to make sure Tom doesn’t hurt Daisy. He told Nick that Daisy was driving when the car hit Myrtle, he will take the blame for her. Gatsby has Nick go check up on Daisy. He sees that Tom and Daisy are back on good terms.
Chapter Eight: Nick couldn’t sleep so he went to go visit Gatsby at his mansion. Gatsby tells Nick that he waited at Daisy’s until four in the morning and that nothing happened, Tom didn’t try to hurt her. Nick tells Gatsby to leave Daisy alone and to leave Long Island, but Gatsby refuses leave Daisy behind. Gatsby then strolls down memory lane, yet again. He admitted to have lied about his background to gain Daisy’s love. Daisy promised him that she’d wait for him when he went off to war, but she married Tom, who had a solid background and the approval of her parents. Gatsby’s gardener interrupts the story talking about draining the pool. Nick notices that he’s very late for work and leaves Gatsby house. On his way out he shouts to Gatsby that he’s worth more than the Buchanan’s and all their friends. Nick goes to work but is too distracted to focus, and even refuses to meet with Jordan for a date. George Wilson stays up all night talking to Michaelis about Myrtle. He tells him that before Myrtle died he confronted her about having an affair and told her that she cannot hide her sins from the eyes of God. Wilson believes that the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are the eyes of God and concludes that whoever was driving the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover. He claims that God demands revenge and leaves to track down the owner of the car. He searches for Tom because he thinks that he might know who the owner of the car is because he remembers Tom driving it earlier that day. Tom couldn’t have done it because he arrived after the accident. Wilson makes his way to Gatsby’s house where he finds Gatsby floating on water. Wilson shoot Gatsby, killing him on the spot, then shoots himself. Nick goes back to the West Egg and sees Gatsby floating dead in his pool.
Chapter Nine: Two years later Nick talks about what took place at Gatsby’s funeral. Reporters, journalist, all swarmed Gatsby’s mansion after the murder. More rumors began to surface. Nick wanted to throw a large funeral for Gatsby, but all his friends either disappeared or refused to attend. The only people that showed up were Nick, Owl Eyes, a few servants, and Gatsby’s father, Henry C. Gatz, who came from Minnesota. Mr. Gatz was very proud of his son and fills Nick in on Gatsby’s earlier life. Nick grows tried of the East, he decides to move back to the Midwest. He breaks up with Jordan, who claims to already been engaged to another man. Before he leaves he runs into Tom in New York City. Tom admits to telling Wilson that Gatsby owned the car that killed Myrtle, and talks about how upset he was for giving up his apartment in the city. He says that Gatsby deserved to die. Nick then realizes that Tom and Daisy are both careless people that wreck people and things, knowing that money will protect them from negative consequences. Although this story happened on the East Coast, Nick, Tom and Daisy are all from the West. Nick believes that the reaction to living the fast-paced lifestyle shaped their behaviors. Nick compares winter in the Midwest to the City and finds that there are no comparison to the Midwest. Before moving back to Minnesota, Nick visits Gatsby’s mansion for the last time. He looked out onto the water and imaged Long Island completely empty. He compared life to Gatsby’s and the events that had taken place. Gatsby’s wealth and success mirrored the American dream, he failed to realize that his dream already ended, his goal became hollow and empty. Nick saw Gatsby’s struggle to create a future with Daisy as a boat going against a storm current which basically carries them back to the past.
Chapter One: The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He starts off the story by stating that he learned from his father to not judge other people because he could make the mistake of misunderstanding someone. Nick characterizes himself as highly moral and highly tolerant. He briefly mentions Gatsby. In the summer of 1922, Nick moved to New York to work in the bond business. He rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg. The West Egg is home to those who have recently become come rich while the East Egg is conservative and snotty. Nick lives right next door to Gatsby’s mansion. Nick graduated from Yale and has many connections on East Egg. One Night Nick drives …show more content…
out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Tom was once a part of Nick’s social club at Yale. Nick then meets Daisy’s friend Jordan Baker. Tom tries to get everyone to read a book called The Rise of the Colored Empires, which was a about white-supremacist attitudes. Tom is interrupted by a strange phone call, Jordan then confirms to Nick that the phone call is from Tom’s lover in New York.
Chapter Two: Between West Egg and New York City is a gray valley where New York’s ashes are dumped.
The men who live there work at shoveling up the ashes. Over the valley, there’s an old billboard advertisement of two big, blue, spectacle eyes by a long vanished eye doctor looking down from the huge sign. The eyes on the billboard belonged to Doctor T.J. Eckleburg which watched over everything that happens in the valley of ashes. There’s a commuter train that runs between the West Egg and New York which passes through the valley. One day, while Nick and Tom rode the train into the city, Tom forces Nick to follow him to one of these stops. Toms leads Nick to George Wilson’s garage which is located on the edge of the valley of ashes. Tom’s lover Myrtle is Wilson’s wife. Wilson is a lifeless man colored grey by the ashes in the air. Tom makes fun of Wilson and orders Myrtle to follow him to the train. Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to New York City, to the Morningside Heights apartment where he keeps his affair. Catherine, Myrtle’s sister and a couple name McKee throws an unplanned party at the apartment. Catherine tells Nick she has heard that Jay Gatsby is the nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm, the ruler of Germany during World War I. The McKee’s are a horrid couple. The group drank excessively. Myrtle gets more obnoxious as she drinks, after Tom gives her a puppy as a gift, she starts talking about Daisy. Toms tells her to stop talking about his wife, Myrtle refused and as a …show more content…
result Tom breaks her nose. The party is cut short and Nick takes the 4am train back to Long Island.
Chapter Three: Gatsby became famous around New York is that he throws huge lavish parties every weekend where people crave for an invite. Gatsby’s chauffeur brings Nick an invitation to one of these parties. Nick joins the festivities but felt a little out of place while strangers exchange rumors about their host. No one knew the truth about Gatsby’s wealth or personal history. Nick ran into Jordan Baker, whose friend, Lucille, speculates that Gatsby was a German spy during the war. Nick also hears that Gatsby is graduate of Oxford and that he once killed a man in old blood. Gatsby’s party is unbelievably luxurious, the guests when crazy over the nice and expensive things Gatsby had. Nick and Jordan, were curious about their host and set out to find him. Instead they ran into a middle-aged man with huge glasses (Nick named him owl eyes) in aw with the unread books in Gatsby’s library. Nick and Jordan when outside to go watch the entertainment. They ran into a man who says Nick looked familiar to him and the man introduces himself as none other than Jay Gatsby. Nick was fascinated with Gatsby. He noticed that Gatsby doesn’t drink and keeps himself separate from the party. As the party wined down Jordan is told that Gatsby wants to see her. Nick leaves the party and heads home. On his way home he sees Owl Eyes struggling to get his car out of a ditch. Nick goes into describing his daily life to show that he does more with his time than party. He takes Daisy and Tom’s advice and begins seeing Jordan Baker. He talks about how Jordan is fundamentally a dishonest person yet he still feels attracted to her despite her dishonesty, even though he claims to be one of the few honest people he has ever known.
Chapter Four: Nick begins listing all of the people who attended Gatsby’s party that summer. A roll call of the nation’s most wealthy and powerful people. Nick then talks about his trip to New York City to have lunch with Gatsby. Gatsby tells Nick about his past. His story seems unbelievable. Gatsby claimed to be the son of wealthy deceased parents from the Midwest. When Nick asks which Midwestern city he is from he says “San Francisco.” After seeing Nick’s skepticism, Gatsby shows him a medal from Montenegro and a picture of him playing cricket at Oxford. Gatsby’s car speeds through the valley of ashes. When a police officer pulls Gatsby over for speeding, he shows him a white card and the policeman apologizes for bothering him. In the city, Gatsby takes Nick to lunch where he introduces Nick to Meyer Wolfshiem. Gatsby claim that Wolfshiem was responsible for fixing the 1919 World Series. Wolfshiem is shady guy with underground business connections. He gives Nick the impression that Gatsby’s wealth comes from the organized crime that Wolfshiem is associated with. Still in New York, Nick then runs into Jordan Baker who finally told Nick about her mysterious conversation with Gatsby. She tell Nick about how Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan. Jordan goes on to say, during the war, before Daisy married Tom, she was a beautiful girl from Louisville, Kentucky, and all the military officers were in love with her. Daisy fell in love with Lieutenant Jay Gatsby, he was station near her home. She choice to marry Tom after Gatsby left for war, she drank herself into numbness the night before her wedding, after she received a letter from Gatsby. Daisy remained faithful throughout her marriage, but Tom has not. Gatsby bought his mansion in West Egg just to be near Daisy. Nick remembers the night he saw Gatsby stretching his arms out onto the water and realized that the green light he saw was the light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Gatsby has asked Jordan to convince Nick to arrange a reunion between Gatsby and Daisy. All because he is scared that Daisy will not want to see him, Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy to tea. Gatsby plans to come to the party without Daisy knowing.
Chapter Five: Nick heads him from the city. He notices that Gatsby’s mansion lit up brightly, but it seems as though no one is home. Gatsby creeps up on Nick. Gatsby seem desperate to make Nick happy so that he can agree to go along with Gatsby’s tea party plan. Gatsby continues bribing him with all sorts over things. When Nick tells him that he will help him. Gatsby also offers Nick the chance to make some money by joining him in some business on the side (not with Wolfshiem). Nick is slightly offended and declines the offer but still agrees to invite Daisy to his house. It rains on the day of the meeting, and Gatsby becomes nervous. He sends someone over to cut the grass and bring flowers. He’s worried that Daisy won’t be the same towards him like in Louisville. Daisy arrives and the reunion becomes extremely awkward. After Nick leaves for about an hour, he returns to find both Gatsby and Daisy happy. Daisy cried tears of joy. The rain stopped, and Gatsby invites Nick and Daisy over to his house. He showed them his possessions. Daisy becomes overwhelmed by his luxurious lifestyle. Gatsby tells Daisy about his the long nights he spends outside staring into the green light dreaming of their future happiness together. Nick wonders if Daisy can live up to Gatsby’s vision of her. Gatsby idealized Daisy in his mind to the point that the real Daisy probably couldn’t compare. At the moment it seems like their romance has fully rekindled. Gatsby calls on his personal piano player, Klipspringer and has him play a song called “Ain’t We Got Fun?” Nick realizes that Gatsby and Daisy have forgotten that he is there so he quietly leaves them together.
Chapter Six: The rumors about Gatsby continue to circulate all around New York.
A reporter even travels to Gatsby’s mansion hoping to interview him. Nick interrupts the story to tell the truth about Gatsby, as it all really happened. Gatsby was born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm. He attended college at St. Olaf’s in Minnesota, but dropped out after two weeks. He worked as a janitor to pay for his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior the next summer fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day, he saw a wealthy copper mogul name Dan Cody, on his yacht and went out to warn him of the storm ahead. Cody took Gatz, named him Jay Gatsby, and made him his personal assistant. Traveling with Cody to the Barbary Coast and the West Indies, Gatsby fell in love with wealth and luxury. Cody was a heavy drinker, and one of Gatsby’s jobs was to look after him on his drunken days. This made Gatsby not to ever drink because he’s aware of the dangers of drinking. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody’s mistress didn’t allow him to collect his inheritance. Gatsby used his experience as motivation to become a wealthy successful man. Nick doesn’t see Gatsby or Daisy for a while since the reunion at his house. One afternoon Nick visits Gatsby’s house and finds Tom there along with the Sloanes. Gatsby lets Tom know that he knows Daisy. Tom is aware of Daisy’s solo visits to Gatsby’s mansion. He is suspicious but doesn’t know about Gatsby and Daisy’s love. Tom and Daisy attend a
party at Gatsby’s house. Tom has no interest in the party, his dislike for Gatsby causes him to spy on Daisy. Daisy is not having a good time at the party. Tom upsets her more by saying that Gatsby’s wealth comes from bootlegging. Gatsby looks for Nick after Tom and Daisy leaves the party. He is upset that Daisy did not have a good time. He wants everything to go back to how it was in Louisville. Gatsby wants Daisy to leave Tom so that he can be with her. Nick tells Gatsby that he cannot re-create the past. Gatsby believes that he can, he believes that his money can get him anything as far as Daisy is concerned.
Chapter Seven: Gatsby calls off his parties, the parties were only to lure Daisy back into his life. He also fires his servants to prevent gossip and replaces them shady people connected to Wolfshiem. It was the hottest day of the summer and Nick takes the train to East Egg for lunch at Tom and Daisy’s house. He finds Gatsby and Jordan there too. Gatsby couldn’t believe his eyes when his sees Daisy’s daughter. Daisy seemed uninterested in her child. Daisy asks Gatsby if he wanted to go on a trip with her to New York and Gatsby agrees. Tom realizes that Daisy and Gatsby have real feelings for each other. Tom is annoyed by Gatsby and Daisy. He plays off her idea and suggests that they all should take a trip to New York together. Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby’s car, and Gatsby and Daisy rode together in Tom’s car. When they stopped for gas at Wilson’s garage, Nick, tom, and Jordan find out that Wilson knows about his affairs. He doesn’t know who the guy is though. Wilson plans to move Myrtle to the West. Under the billboard of Doctor T.J Eckleburg, Nick sees that Tom and Wilson are in the same position. In the city the group get a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom uses that time to confront Gatsby. Tom asks Gatsby about his intentions for Daisy, and Gatsby responds by saying that Daisy love him, not Tom. Tom accuses Gatsby of running a bootlegging business. Daisy was all for Gatsby earlier finds herself getting closer to Tom. Tom lets Daisy got back to Long Island with Gatsby to prove that he cannot hurt them as a couple. Nick realizes that it’s his 30th birthday. On the way back to Long Island, Nick, Tom and Jordan find someone has been hit by a car. The victim was Myrtle. Nick realizes that Myrtle had to have been hit by Gatsby and Daisy. Tom thinks that Wilson will remember the yellow car from that afternoon. He also thinks that Gatsby was the driver. Outside of Tom’s house, Nick finds Gatsby hiding in the bushes. Gatsby claims that he’s been waiting there just to make sure Tom doesn’t hurt Daisy. He told Nick that Daisy was driving when the car hit Myrtle, he will take the blame for her. Gatsby has Nick go check up on Daisy. He sees that Tom and Daisy are back on good terms.
Chapter Eight: Nick couldn’t sleep so he went to go visit Gatsby at his mansion. Gatsby tells Nick that he waited at Daisy’s until four in the morning and that nothing happened, Tom didn’t try to hurt her. Nick tells Gatsby to leave Daisy alone and to leave Long Island, but Gatsby refuses leave Daisy behind. Gatsby then strolls down memory lane, yet again. He admitted to have lied about his background to gain Daisy’s love. Daisy promised him that she’d wait for him when he went off to war, but she married Tom, who had a solid background and the approval of her parents. Gatsby’s gardener interrupts the story talking about draining the pool. Nick notices that he’s very late for work and leaves Gatsby house. On his way out he shouts to Gatsby that he’s worth more than the Buchanan’s and all their friends. Nick goes to work but is too distracted to focus, and even refuses to meet with Jordan for a date. George Wilson stays up all night talking to Michaelis about Myrtle. He tells him that before Myrtle died he confronted her about having an affair and told her that she cannot hide her sins from the eyes of God. Wilson believes that the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are the eyes of God and concludes that whoever was driving the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover. He claims that God demands revenge and leaves to track down the owner of the car. He searches for Tom because he thinks that he might know who the owner of the car is because he remembers Tom driving it earlier that day. Tom couldn’t have done it because he arrived after the accident. Wilson makes his way to Gatsby’s house where he finds Gatsby floating on water. Wilson shoot Gatsby, killing him on the spot, then shoots himself. Nick goes back to the West Egg and sees Gatsby floating dead in his pool.
Chapter Nine: Two years later Nick talks about what took place at Gatsby’s funeral. Reporters, journalist, all swarmed Gatsby’s mansion after the murder. More rumors began to surface. Nick wanted to throw a large funeral for Gatsby, but all his friends either disappeared or refused to attend. The only people that showed up were Nick, Owl Eyes, a few servants, and Gatsby’s father, Henry C. Gatz, who came from Minnesota. Mr. Gatz was very proud of his son and fills Nick in on Gatsby’s earlier life. Nick grows tried of the East, he decides to move back to the Midwest. He breaks up with Jordan, who claims to already been engaged to another man. Before he leaves he runs into Tom in New York City. Tom admits to telling Wilson that Gatsby owned the car that killed Myrtle, and talks about how upset he was for giving up his apartment in the city. He says that Gatsby deserved to die. Nick then realizes that Tom and Daisy are both careless people that wreck people and things, knowing that money will protect them from negative consequences. Although this story happened on the East Coast, Nick, Tom and Daisy are all from the West. Nick believes that the reaction to living the fast-paced lifestyle shaped their behaviors. Nick compares winter in the Midwest to the City and finds that there are no comparison to the Midwest. Before moving back to Minnesota, Nick visits Gatsby’s mansion for the last time. He looked out onto the water and imaged Long Island completely empty. He compared life to Gatsby’s and the events that had taken place. Gatsby’s wealth and success mirrored the American dream, he failed to realize that his dream already ended, his goal became hollow and empty. Nick saw Gatsby’s struggle to create a future with Daisy as a boat going against a storm current which basically carries them back to the past.