Friday, June 28, 2013

Chapters VIII and IX

These are the two last chapters of the book, narrating an ending I was not expecting. Here is when the real feelings and emotions are shown. Gatsby does not lose hope; he still waits for Daisy to leave Tom to finally get reunited. Nick already figures out that Daisy will not leave the comfort of her present life style to be with a “new rich” that might not be able to afford her material needs. Nick tells Gatsby to go away and start a new life but Gatsby does not listen, he wants to wait at least one more day, and that one day makes the difference.

The next day while Gatsby is using his swimming pool, another character named Wilson comes and murders him thinking that he was the one that run over his wife since Gatsby was the owner of the yellow car. However, Daisy was the one driving Gatsby’s car at that moment. His feeling toward Daisy is so big that he covers her taking all consequences to himself. Now, the most disappointing realization about Daisy Buchanan is that she was not as good of a person as I expected her to be. She did not care about Gatsby because she run away with Tom as soon as she could and did not even call or send flowers for Gatsby’s funeral. The same thing happens with all the “friends” that attended Gatsby’s parties or worked with him. None of them came for his funeral other than Nick, Gatsby’s father and some of Gatsby’s servants.




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