Gatsby Death Car Quotes

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Caden Mims Professor Jeremiah Hutchins Postmodern American Literature 3 April 2024 Explanation of “The Death Car” in The Great Gatsby Could an event in a novel that at first seems like a simple and tragic accident, actually be a much more complex plot point that brings all of the developments of the book together in a masterfully woven way that clears up all of the loose ends throughout it? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, does this exact thing. In this part of the novel, the characters Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are driving home from a hotel after a massive fight scene. However, due to a mix up in the cars, an unforeseen accident happens and Myrtle, Tom Buchanan’s mistress, ends up getting run over by Daisy. Daisy drives away …show more content…

‘You weren’t so nice to me last night.’ ‘How could it have mattered then’” (Fitzgerald 165)? This quote shows Jordan’s true colors of superficiality as she is upset that Nick was slightly gruff toward her immediately after a tragic accident, and fails to see the bigger issue. So overall, the death car scene reveals quite a lot about the true, more sinister colors of some characters that we thought were good people. To summarize everything discussed so far, the death car scene from the novel The Great Gatsby is a very complex and wonderfully written scene that brings together all the previous tensions of the novel and shows many characters true colors. Both Tom's affair with Myrtle, and the hotel room drama of Tom and Gatsby fighting for Daisy’s love, come into play in the accident that is Myrtle’s death. Additionally, previously held notions about certain characters like Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan are proven somewhat false with the aftermath of this event. So, the next time you read The Great Gatsby, try to explore this scene in the book with a whole new perspective to it and appreciate the complexity and intrigue that surrounds

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