The Great Gatsby - December 12, 2007 - pages 171 - end

The end of the book was pretty deep. Nothing too astonishing happened, yet a few majoy things had closure. For instance, Nick decides to move back to the mid-west. Also, Jordan and Nick's relationship ends. Jordan tells Nick that she is engaged, but I don't believe she is telling the truth.
A few years later he sees Tom, and finally confronts him about what he said to Wilson that night. Tom said he told him the truth, which he thought he did. Nick, though, told him that "the truth" that he thought he told Wilson, was not the truth at all. Tom didn't really seemed affected at all by the fact that Daisy is the one who really killed Myrtle. He made it sound like he suffered as much as anyone else in the fact that Myrtle was dead and no longer a part of his life.
The last line was different than what I expected. I read it and turned the page to keep on reading, but found nothing there. I guess I just expected somthing totally ironic or surprising that would explain everything we doubted in the book. Something that would help us distinguish between the illisions and reality in the book. Instead, we will never really know what was truth and what was fiction. The last line in the book merely tells us that when we want somthing we will do whatever, and give whatever, in attempt to get it?? Summarizing the characteristics of the people in America??
I was disappointed though that there was no mention of Daisy at all! What did she think of Gatsby's death? Did she even find out? Are her and Tom still together? There were so many things left unanswered. Everything in the book was focused around her and when Gatsby died, it was as if she did too. Maybe that was the point, without Gatsby, she wasn't a real person anyways. Therefore, her thoughts and feelings didn't really matter any more.

The Great Gatsby - December 5, 2007 - Pages 154 - 171

This second to last chapter is the most significant chapter in the whole book, I think. First, we learn that Daisy married Tom because she got tired of waiting for Gatsby to get back from the war, because she wanted her life to start. Then, it talks alot about Wilson and Michaelis the night of the accident. I think the writer did this to show us how "crazy" Wilson is becoming. At the end of the chapter, Wilson shoots Gatsby while he is in his pool. The end of this chapter was so astonishing. Yet, at the same time, it didn't surprise me at all. It was so ironic and so full circle, I don't think it could have ended any other way. The one thing I wonder though is how Wilson found out it was Gatsby? He had never met Gatsby, or seen him, and Tom definatly never talked about him. I think, though, that Tom tipped him off. After all, it would be the perfect way to get rid of Gatsby.
Predicting on the final chapter, I don't think anything this big will happen. I expect something big to maybe happen with Daisy though. I think we will maybe find out somthing ironic or astonishing about thier past together.
Reflecting, I expected Wilson to find out that Daisy did it and for Gatsby to some how take the blame. I didn't think that Wilson would be strong enough to actually kill someone.