... of winning her back. This is all that Gatsby can think about; nothing else matters to him except Daisy. When Gatsby allows Daisy to take his car on the wild ride that killed Myrtle, he was prepared to defend his dream. Gatsby's love for Daisy can actually be considered an obsession. Daisy ... Daisy driving?' Yes, he said after a moment, but of course I'll say I was and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way."" (151). By allowing Daisy to drive Gatsby was in part responsible for the death of Myrtle. Wilson thought it was Gatsby that was driving ......

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• Grade Level: High School

... sent down "?- that weren't in he tried to force this way upstairs. He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owed the car. His hand was on the revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house-' He broke off definitely. What if I did tell him (Gatsby)? ... it. Examples of this are Gatsby's expensive Rolls Royce and Tom's polo horses that he flew in from Chicago. Nick mentions that everybody had seen Gatsby's car (pg 63), pointing to the fact that Gatsby flaunted the vehicle and by association his wealth, and Tom flying in polo horses from another city would ... lav...

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• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

... Daisy, the light that had always occupied Gatsby's life. On the drive back to Long Island to their Egg residences, Nick and Tom and Jordan who were in the same car, discovered a frightening site of someone killed on the road. A Greek man who runs the restaurant next to the Wilson's told them that the person killed was Myrtle, Wilson's wife. Myrtle ... had also been Tom's lover. Tom immediately sensed that she was probably killed by the car Gatsby and Daisy were driving in. The cohort then proceeded to Tom's house and on reaching there, Nick decided to wait outside. Whilst outside, he fo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and tragic end, it is symbolically significant that Tom and Daisy kill each other's lover. Although it is apparently an accident, Daisy is the driver who kills Myrtle with Gatsby's car it is not an accident that Tom sends George Wilson to Gatsby's house. When Daisy lets Gatsby take the blame for Myrtle's death it indicates both her conception of him ... ...

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... moral strength or regards for anyone, not even her own baby. The novel ends with Gatsby's murder by the enraged husband of the woman who Daisy ran over in Gatsby's car one night. After Gatsby's death Nick believes that Gatsby gave all he had for a dream that had little promise, noting that "Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's dock ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School