The Great Gatsby Chapter 23 Alternate Ending

“The trick is always to appear fixed, whatever happens. To hold the pattern we were born to, though its significance may be lost to us” (Glenday 49). In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, fate is explored with its connection to social classes, specific characters, and how these fates stick with these characters throughout the course of their lives. The higher class portrays a more lively, yet insensitive and careless fate in the novel. The working class carries the weight of the higher class, although their contributions come unrecognized to the wealthy. When Jay Gatsby attempts to transition to the upper class, his working class fate made him fail to adapt to the life of the higher society. The role of the car displays a translation

The Great Gatsby tells a story of eight people during the summer of 1922 from the observation of Nick Carraway. It's a story about trying to achieve the unattainable, deceit, and tragedy. It takes place around the character Jay Gatz who becomes Jay Gatsby in an attempt to change his persona and attract his long lost love, Daisy. In Nick's telling of the story, Nick and everyone who knew Gatsby, thought he was great. Gatsby threw lavish parties at his beautiful mansion every weekend. He had money, even though no one really seemed to know how he made his money. Gatsby spends years of his life trying to win the heart back of Daisy Buchanan. When they met years ago, he was in the Army and didn't have much money. Daisy came from a wealthy

Chapter 4 starts off with Nick providing a list of all the guests who attended Gatsby’s parties in the summer and the irony is that none of them actually knew him. When Nick accompanies Gatsby on a trip into the city for lunch, he reveals the truth about his past. Gatsby states that he is from a wealthy family from the Midwest town of San Francisco, he graduated from Oxford, and declared himself a hero in the war. During lunch, Gatsby introduces Nick to his former business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim who apparently fixed the 1919 World Series. Based on the conversation, Nick begins to think that Gatsby is involved in an organized crime. When they leave the restaurant, they come across Tom Buchanan and as Nick introduces Gatsby to him, Gatsby becomes

The passage of this commentary comes from Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby. In this passage, Nick goes to East Egg to see the former members of the Yale Club, and are introduced to Tom and Daisy Buchanan as well as Jordan Baker. East Egg is a place in Long Island where people with ‘old’ money reside, while West Egg contains individuals with ‘new’ money. In this passage, Fitzgerald highlights the superficial benefits of living in East Egg. Fitzgerald wants us to understand the impact the alluring nature of East Egg is on those who do not live there.

This is in chapter 5 when Asher steals paint from Krinsky's store. It shows us Ashers urge to paint and what lengths he would go to paint. It causes him to go against everything he has been taught growing up. Asher begins to think about what he is doing, and even before he leaves the store, feels guilty and buys a canvas. When he later tries to use the paints, he feels too guilty at having stolen them, confesses having sin , and returns the paints.

As the summer goes on, Nick gets invited to one of Gatsby’s big parties. He meets Jordan at the party and they meet Gatsby himself, a young man, a great smile, and tells everyone “old sport”. Later on in the party Gatsby asks to talk to Jordan Baker alone. Nick learns that the parties were all to get and impress Daisy. Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy over to his to tea, so Gatsby can meet her. When Daisy and Gatsby meet each other for the first time in five years it starts off awkward, then they start talking to each other. Gatsby tells her about how rich he is now and invites her over to his house. Daisy and Gatsby then begin the affair between each other as their relationship grows. Later, Gatsby get invited to Daisy’s house where Tom starts

Chapter 4 starts with more rumors of Gatsby. We the readers still don’t know anything about his family, or where he comes from, or even what he does for a living. At Ch.5, they all go to Gatsby’s house so that Gatsby can show Daisy his wealth. He demonstrates the excess of his life, numerous rooms in various styles, with his bedroom ‘the simplest room of all’. By Ch 6, A reporter knocking on Gatsby’s door, hoping to interview him.

Chapter 9 is the last chapter in the book. 2 years after Gatsby’s death, Nick recounts the events surrounding the death. He talks about the reporters, gossipers, the little boys, and the policemen. Rumors swirl around the newspapers about the relationship of Myrtle and Gatsby (denied by Catherine), and Wilson’s unstable nature that was driven by his grief. As Nick is organizing Gatsby’s funeral, he realizes that Gatsby’s friends are not to be heard from.

Do the ends justify the means? This is a philosophical question that is proposed by the book The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Is it acceptable that Gatsby had broken the law just to get closer to Daisy? Or should he be punished for his crimes and get no sympathy from the reader? The reader is left to decide this on his/her own.

but this time, they finished at dawn, due to the higher caution. It was still dark and there was not any daylight, when they were returning somebody suddenly heard a clack from the minefield. He alarmed the others. Fear had left everyone breathless. There was a strange reticence. Everyone was expecting a horrible thing. The longer the silent moments of waiting, the bigger the people's panic and fear. They were sticking to the rocks and sandbags more and more, like they were rooting into the soil. The clack repeated in the field. The troops got on standby in prone position. The critical circumstance had taken our breath away. An urgent call was made to the division headquarters which was on a high alert. The mortars and artillery groups were

In chapter 19 I used The Great Gatsby to relate to Foster's concept of the quest, and how throughout the story Gatsby was continuously searching for Daisy's love. Foster says in chapter 19 that geography is "anything that place can forge in the people who live there." In The Great Gatsby the people of West Egg are addicted to parties and living the good life at the expense of whoever is willing to satisfy them who in this case happens to be Gatsby. Gatsby is always surrounded by crowds using him for a quick thrill. He hopes throughout the story, that through his extravagant parties he will attract the attention of Daisy and complete his quest to be reunited with her.

The aim of an exposition in a text is to foreground issues and themes that will be prevalent in the rest of the story. This is evident in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby where the first chapter is used to introduce the main characters in the story – Nick, from whose point of view the novel is written, Daisy and Tom Buchanan and Gatsby, whom the novel is named after. It sets the scene and foregrounds the wealth and superficial lifestyle of some through the use of setting, the contrasting natures of the American Dream, with the belief that hard work will get you places in life contrasting with the materialistic and shallow nature of those who have ‘old’ money and do not have to work for a

“With scarcely a word said, four of us, the chauffeur, butler, gardener, and I, hurried down to the pool. There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other with little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of the wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden. The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water.”

So naturally Michaelis tried to find out what had happened, but Wilson wouldn’t say a word — instead he began to throw suspicious look at his visitor and ask himself what he’d been doing at certain times on certain days of the week. Just as the latter was getting restless, some workers came past heading to the door for his restaurant, and Michaelis approach the chance to get away, intending to return later. But he never did. He supposed he forgot to, that’s all. When he gets outside again, a little later after seven o’clock, he was remembered of the conversation because he heard Mrs. Wilson’s voice, loud and clear coming down-stairs in the garage.

In chapter seven, Nick, Jordan, Gatsby and the Buchanan's, go to New York, where Tom confronts Gatsby on the topic of Daisy. Later as Gatsby and Daisy are driving back from New York, they hit Myrtle Wilson with their car killing her. This is where the American Dream’s demise begins. Gatsby and Daisy have recently been seeing a lot of each other. So much so that Gatsby fired his servants, to prevent gossip spreading; "I wanted someone who wouldn't gossip". However Tom is suspicious of the two of them and believes they are having an affair. When Nick goes to the Buchanan’s he is surprised to see Gatsby and Jordan there. All of them decide to go to New York, and Tom splits them up, taking Gatsby’s car with Nick and Jordan, and Gatsby and Daisy taking Toms car. In New York they stay in a hotel room. Tom becomes increasingly hostile, mocking Gatsby before snapping at him, confronting him and Daisy "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife". Gatsby insists that Daisy loves him, and demands Daisy tell Tom she had never loved him,