Tom, Nick and Jordan drove in Tom’s car. As Daisy drove past George Wilson’s garage, Myrtle Wilson, who had been let out of George’s office, recognising Gatsby’s car as the one Tom had been driving that morning, ran out into the road in an attempt to stop the car so that she could run away with Tom and leave George. Daisy however, in her shocked state, did not stop the car, but knocked straight into Myrtle, killing her instantly. Though Gatsby attempted to make her stop, she carried on driving. When the other party drove past Wilson’s garage, they stopped to find out what the commotion was about.
| Vehicle Failure | 1968/16 | Peck takes Lil Bit to the car. They discuss going further in their relationship. Peck gets a blanket so Lil Bit can sleep. | Idling in Neutral Gear | | Uncle Peck teaches cousin Bobby how to fish. Bobby gets upset after catching a fish and starts crying so peck releases it.
An example of why i felt the way i did is when Gatsby is in the passenger seat, and Daisy runs over Tom’s secrect lover, Myrtle, killing her. Gatsby is willing to take the blame for her “Of course I’ll say I was [driving],” he tells Nick. Yet despite of being outside her window all night long, he never gets so much as a thank you from her. In fact, he gets killed for that very thing he takes a blame for, when Mr. Wilson takes his revenge by killing Gatsby she doesn't even attend his funeral. This was the man who, days earlier, she “loved.” She and Tom leave town, retreating into their “vast carelessness” and heading to “wherever rich people go to be together,” according to Nick’s bitter
“Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans” (115). Later in the novel after Daisy brutally ran Myrtle Wilson over with Gatsby’s car, he was still oblivious to Daisy’s unscrupulous manner. “He spoke as if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that mattered” (143). Gatsby wanted nothing more than Daisy’s love that he subconsciously overlooked the murder she committed, stood outside her window to make sure she was fine, and took the blame for her crime. Jay Gatsby was killed, never fulfilling his American Dream.
A sense of being that will draw the reader or listener in, as if they themselves were in the story, helping them to feel the surroundings of the character within the pages of the book. And having an imagistic style in the way you write it a very helpful tool. An example of this tool being used is in the novel The Great Gatsby. The Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald exerts his strength for imagination, with contrasting moods and bubbling atmosphere, and in the end creates a resplendent tale. His story is about a misunderstood man who truly craves a fulfilled life.
Daisy had enough of Tom and Gatsby arguing so her and Gatsby ran off to the car and Daisy drove she was filled with grief. Because of this sadness she is not paying attention to the road and she runs over Myrtle on accident. She does not stop even after this she just keeps driving off. Finally she got to Gatsby’s house and also Nick makes it home as well. Nick says, “Was Daisy Driving” then Gatsby says “Yes, but of course I’ll say I was”(151).
Night Drive Rob Grimes The initial conflict within the story is when Madge needs to drive to a nearby town named Colchester to pick up her husband. She was initially going to make the drive alone, but a neighbor named Mr. Tabor asks if Madge can drive his niece there as well. Mr. Tabor’s wife was killed while driving along the same road some time previously. The additional complication is when Madge discovers that her passenger, the niece, is not who she thinks it is. When the niece lights a cigarette for Madge she looks at the niece’s hands and discovers “The knuckles were like a man’s.
Chapter 1: West Egg is home to the nouveau riche (those who have recently made money and lack an established social position) One night, he heads over to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, whom he went to college with. Tom is a large, aggressive former football player and he inherited his fortune. When Nick enters the house Daisy and friends of her, Jordan Baker, are lying on the sofa, they seem bored… However at Nick’s sight, Daisy stands up and starts talking with her cousin. While drinking cocktails, Nick mentions Gatsby and daisy gets unusually interested. At dinner, Tom is the one who speaks the most, who dominates the conversation.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor – Chapter 8 analysis “We want strangeness in our stories but we want familiarity too. We want a new novel to be not quite like anything we’ve read before. At the same time, we look for it to be sufficiently like other things we’ve read so that we can use those to make sense of it” (Foster 63). -Writers barrow because referencing to works that many are familiar with, such as fairytales creates a familiarity in which readers are comfortable with, which in turn can even help create a better understanding of a story. At the same time, the use of fairytales in a writer’s own work creates a uniqueness which appeals to many readers Why do writers often choose fairytales to barrow from instead of other literature like Shakespeare or Homer?
One of the first instances where Nick’s nature as more of a bystander shows occurs in chapter two. There is a party thrown by Tom and Myrtle in a New York City apartment friends of Tom and Myrtle come and while Nick wants to leave something pulls him back, causing him to stay. Nick talks with some people, has a few drinks, but is in reality mostly watching from the sidelines as he says, “Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.” (Fitzgerald 35). Nick does not feel as though he is part of anything that is happening, instead he is just the one watching in. One more occurence of Nick paying more attention to the busy world going around him than himself arises in seven.