Examples Of Mortality In The Great Gatsby

In Chapter four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, mortality is revealed as a way of life within their area. One night leading up to another extravagant party at Gatsby's Mansion Nick begins to list the type of people flowing towards his manor. He describes all types of people from West Egg and New York, but unnaturally adds people that are not alive. Nick describes Henry L. Palmetto, “who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square” (Fitzgerald 63). On the page before, Nick describes a woman that was strangled to death by her husband. These are the first description given about someone's death in the novel. Henry chose to die while the woman was killed against her will. This reveals the mortality directly associated