Nick tries to help Gatsby out by telling him to leave town for a few weeks. Gatsby does not want to however. He wants to be with Daisy. Gatsby often times through out the book wants things when it is too late. In this chapter we see it in the scene with the pool when the keeper of it wants to drain it. “Don’t do it to-day,” Gatsby answered. He turned to me apologetically. “You know, old sport, I’ve never used that pool all summer?” Gatsby wants to use his pool now when its too cold to use it anyway. This is just like his desire for daisy. What he wants out of her is in the past and it's too late to obtain it. He waited to long to get this daisy that he wants, which is the daisy from 5 years ago. Going back to what i began with, Nick warns Gatsby too get out of town this foreshadowed to me something bad was going to happen to him. In Gatsby's eyes he was not too worried because he was thinking about daisy not himself. In Nick's eyes Gatsby was in big trouble and he could not help him. A major idea i pulled out of this chapter and is an ongoing theme in this book is often times we want things after it's too late. Gatsby wants the Daisy from five years ago not the Daisy he has now.
Getting into the big event at the end of the chapter the question pops up did Gatsby deserve what he got? Did he deserve to die? I think that there really was no other choice for the ending of this book. He had to die there was no other ending that i could think of. However, i figured it would be Tom not Wilson. so in this chapter we figure out Tom did indeed despise Gatsby and did a lot to ruin him but killing him was not one, thus making my prediction not entirely true. Wilson deserved to be told who really was his wife's cheater and he never got it so in turn he went after Mr. Gatsby.
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