31 Ağustos 2010 Salı

Chapter 8: Reflection

Chapter 8 was probably the most tragic chapter in the book. I didn’t expect Gatsby to die, and I thought that Daisy would have called, and they would live happily.

The night of the accident (Myrtle’s death), Nick can’t sleep and is ‘’tossed half sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams. He hears Gatsby’s cab pull over and rushed to his house. They search for cigarettes all night, and start talking. ‘‘You ought to go away, it’s pretty certain they’ll trace your car.’’ Says Nick to Gatsby, and I agree. One can’t hang on to a dream forever and if he let go, it would be the best for everyone.

Gatsby then talks about his real life, and we learn that the one story that he told before was a lie. He chooses to talk about Daisy and how everything started one evening when he went to her house with the other officers from Camp Taylor, then he went all alone. It was dawn now, and they were still talking about Daisy.

Gatsby still refuses to believe that Daisy ever loved Tom, he thinks that the way Tom spoke scared her, and she came to a state where she didn’t know what she was saying. Gatsby always believes that she loved him more, even if she loved Tom for a minute. I think that Gatsby is just being delusional now and he isn’t thinking. Even after Daisy looked at him from the window that night and said nothing and went to bed, he still thinks that she will call; at least a part of him hopes that she will call.

When Nick leaves his house that morning, they promise to meet up in the afternoon. He says ‘’They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.’’ which is the first nice thing he ever said to Gatsby, and he was right. I was surprised when he complimented him, when the night before he disliked him so much. Nick isn’t feeling well, he even refuses to meet up with Jordan, which was another shocking thing for me; and he says ‘’I couldn’t have talked to her across a tea-table that day if I never talked to her again in this world.’’

Then the chapter goes on with reflecting to Wilson and how he spends his days after the loss of his wife. Wilson is determined to find the killer of his wife, and his eyes are blinded by revenge. He keeps on repeating ‘’God sees everything.’’ When Michaelis leaves him alone, he comes back into the garage to find him gone. Wilson walks all afternoon until he reaches the West Egg, and asks for Gatsby’s house. I was surprised at how popular Gatsby was, and how Wilson learned his name until he walked to West Egg. The thing that really got me questioning was, how did he know that Gatsby (in reality Daisy) was the one who killed his wife? Wilson kills Gatsby in his swimming pool, and then also shots himself.

Nick rushes into the house that afternoon like he feels something, and goes over to the pool with the chauffeur, the gardener, and the butler to find Gatsby’s dead body floating on the water. It must have been really hard for him, to lose someone that he just started to like.

‘’It was after we started with Gatsby towards the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete.’’ I thought that this was a very powerful ending, to a very powerful chapter.

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