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.
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I agree with you on how Tom didn't seem to be affected by finding out that it was Daisy who killed his mistress. But what i think he really wanted was for Gatsby to be dead and gone and out of his life once and for all.
I totally agree with you about how when Gatsby died, Daisy did too. He was the only one to bring out the human characteristics of her and without him, there was nothing left.
I agree too about Daisy dying when Gatsby died. I think that she probably found out about Gatsby's death, but Tom stopped her from sending flowers or calling or whatever. I'm sure that Gatsby's emminent death was the reason for Daisy and Tom's sudden departure.
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