RR #12

pages 136-180 (end)
7/16/10

Why Fitzgerald chose to kill Myrtle I didn't know while reading it. However after finishing the book I realized the only way Fitzgerald could truly please the reader of his book, was if he surprised and disappointed them with one more main event. I think my favorite part in this book was reading about the accident and having to fit the puzzle pieces together myself. To fully understand what happened to Myrtle you had to be paying attention to minor details that Fitzgerald throws into his writing. If i hadn't been paying attention to the fact that Gatsby and Daisy were driving a yellow car, I would have had to wait until Nick and Gatsby spoke later in chapter to realize they killed Myrtle. I love the way the book ended. The fact that Fitzgerald used Myrtle's husband George to kill Gatsby was brilliant. I would have never suspected quiet George to be so driven. I was angry though, I was angry because the two people who started this whole mess, the couple who was unfaithful to eachother. They killed the people they dragged along. It was Tom's fualt that Myrtle ran out to his car in order to ger his attention.He was the man who suggested switching cars in the first place. It was also Daisy's fault that Gatsby was killed, because she was the one who actually hit Myrtle in the first place and he just tried to protect her. Even though I thought the ending was extremely unfair, I also loved the way Fitzgerald surprised me. This book really made me think of a domino effect. If one of them fall, the rest follow.