Chapter 8
In this chapter the finally know more about Gatsby's past or better said about the past of James Gatz. We learn how he meet Daisy but most importantly we see a different side of all the glamour that Gatsby has. Chapters before we saw Gatsby's mansion filled with people from room to room. This time the house is described using the words musty, dust, ghostly, dark, and pavilions. Not the words you would use for a house as amazing as Gatsby's but more for an abandoned house left to rot. Not only do we get this description of his house and past but we say goodbye to Gatsby as well. All these chapters we have been wondering what will happen and now we see that Gatsby had been holding on to thought of having Daisy and now that he can't have her anyway there's no point in Gatsby living since he himself is a dream.
George Wilson
"About three o'clock the quality of Wilson's incoherent muttering changed- he grew quieter and started Gallic about the yellow car."
Wilson is a man who respects everyone even if he is on the bottom of the food chain. When Myrtle dies tragically the side the Wilson has been trying to hold back now comes forth. He will avenge his wife even as he knows the she has been unfaithful to him.
Wilson is an example of those or are less fortunate then the people of the Eggs but still helps those who need it. Chapters before we observed how when he had a customer his eyes would light up but now the only thing he wishes to do is kill the man who ran over his wife. Unfortunately he does not know the truth and finishes off Gatsby, the man who we've gone through chapter after chapter and discovered new emotions and opinions for someone who has been lying to who he is all along.
"It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house the the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete."
When I read this quote it gave me this image of mass murder. Of no one getting out alive and that once everything was complete only then would there be peace. This is what I was thinking as is the novel describes Wilson finishing his own life after completing his task.
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