Summary: Nick wakes up and hears a taxi come to Gatsby's house. When he goes over, Gatsby says that nothing happened and he left. Nick and Gatsby are then talking, and Nick tells Gatsby that he thinks Gatsby should go away because they will be able to trace his car, but Gatsby won't leave Daisy. That was the same night that Gatsby told Nick about Jay Gratz. He also tells about him and Daisy. He says that Daisy was the first nice girl he had known, and he wasn't expecting anything from her. He says that Daisy was very rich which kind of amazed him because she didn't even realize it and just lived her life like normal. He also liked Daisy because many other men had loved her. He knew that he was below Daisy. He let Daisy believe that he was on the same level as her. Gatsby 'took' Daisy. She then left him with nothing he said, but he felt married to her. Daisy and Gatsby were in love with each other though. Gatsby then left for war. He did well, but Daisy kept on sending him nervous letters asking him why he couldn't come back. She wanted to see him again and feel his presence. Daisy eventually went back to dating. She now wanted someone practical with money whom she loved. That person was Tom. Gatsby then says that he does not think that Daisy did ever love Tom. But then he says she may have loved him for just a minute but had still loved Gatsby more. When Gatsby came back to the US, he went to Louisville when Tom and Daisy were on their honeymoon. He walked the same streets that he and Daisy had walked. When he leaves, he is on a train and realizes that he lost the best part of between him and Daisy forever. The gardener then comes to Gatsby and says that he is going to drain the pool for fall. Gatsby says to wait though because he hasn't been in it all summer. Nick finally leaves for the city even though he does not want to leave Gatsby. When Nick is leaving he tells Gatsby, "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together" (162). Nick reflects on how he was glad he said it because it was the first compliment Nick ever gave Gatsby. He says that he had always disapproved of Gatsby. At work, Nick is kind of restless. Nick then tells what happened at Wilson's garage after they left. George Wilson was very distraught. Michalelis stayed with him all night while he just kind of rocked back and forth. In the morning, Wilson began talking about the yellow car. Wilson then tells Michaleis to open a drawer. When he does, he find an expensive dog leash. Wilson says that he found it on Myrtle's dresser wrapped in tissue paper. Wilson then says, "He killed her"(166). He thinks that the man Myrtle was cheating with murdered her. He says that she ran out to speak to him, but he wouldn't stop. Wilson says that he told Myrtle that he could fool him, but she couldn't fool God and pointed at the advertisement with the Doctor staring at them. Michaelis leaves in the morning, and when he comes back, Wilson is gone. They tracked Wilson's movements then. He walked from place to place acting crazy. They say that he must have been going from garage to garage asking about a yellow car. By half past two, he was at Gatsby's house. Meanwhile, Gatsby had gotten in his swimsuit and had gotten a mattress to go to his pool. He had told his servants not to have the car moved. Gatsby's chauffeur said how he had heard the shot but thought nothing of it. Nick then has come to Gatsby's house. He runs to the pool and finds Gatsby's body. After they have started towards the house with Gatsby, they see that Wilson's body and, "the holocaust was complete" (170.)
Response: It seems like ever since Gatsby left Daisy he was trying to go back to the past. He went back to Louisville and remember the past. He tried to act like nothing had happened during the five years that Daisy and he were separated. He wanted to live with Daisy like nothing had ever happened. It is kind of sad because Gatsby tried to earn so much money and please Daisy in order to live in the past. That was the best thing of his life, and he didn't want to move on. I don't think that Daisy would have ever left Tom. I think that she felt too comfortable with him even though he had cheated on her. He made her feel secure. I think that she probably loved money more than any man including Gatsby which is why he wanted to become so rich. Gatsby didn't care if she loved money more than him because he loved her. Was Doctor Elkenburg in the advertisements like God? That is what Wilson referred to when talking to Myrtle. He did sort of see everything and was all knowing. He knew that Tom and Myrtle were having an affair. It is also odd though that Fitzgerald would write that he is like God because Daisy compared Gatsby's eyes to the Doctor in the advertisement. Was Fitzgerald trying to say that Gatsby knew everything all along? It doesn't really seem like it though because Gatsby was kind of delusional. He thought that Daisy had or would only love him. He thought that since he did not love anyone else Daisy couldn't which is unrealistic.
Question: Did Fitzgerald write Gatsby by thinking about himself? Gatsby and Fitzgerald's lives both seem sort of similar because they both tried to earn money in order to get the woman they loved.
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