Chapter 8

Nick felt like he had to tell Gatsby something in the middle of the night. He went to his house and asked Gatsby if he talked to Daisy but he didn't so they had a new convo about how Gatsby fell in love with her and how they would wait for each other when h was sent away to war. But he couldn't respond to her letters and he went to go find Daisy but she had married Tom. Nick leaves but doesn't want to leave Gatsby. Nick goes to work and really bored and falls asleep and calls Gatsby but the line was busy. he gets a call from Jordan and they were mad at each other because of the way they spoke to each other so they ended on bad terms. Scene flashes to Wilson's garage and police are all there and Wilson is insane and the police officer told him to calm down. Wilson started talking about the yellow car and thought Gatsby was driving it so he went to the city to look for the car. He figured out it was Gatsby's car so. Scene goes to Gatsby laying on a blow up mattress in his pool and Nick hears four shoots and runs to see what happened and Gatsby is dead on the pool and Wilson is dead on the ground with a gun in his hand. The character we are going to focus on in this chapter is Wilson. "I spoke to her, I told her she might fool m but she couldn't fool god. I took her to the window and I said God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!"(159). This quote shows how crazy that Wilson is becoming after the death of Myrtle and how crazy he has become so that he can find out who killed her because he has a plan and knows what needs to be done. A big quote that shows importance in this chapter is "the touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of transit, a thin red circle in the water. It was after we started with Gatsby toward the hous that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete"(162). This quote shows the death of Gatsby and Wilson and how that the both were killed and that all was going wrong because what Wilson had set out to do was to kill Gatsby and to make all right.