English 10
Gatsby life lessons
2/18/14
In the movie 'The Great Gatsby', Gatsby is madly in love with Daisy causing a riot between
Tom and Gatsby. Well at a hotel with Jordan, Nick, Tom, Daisy and Gatsby, the topic of
Daisy's and Gatsby's affair came about. It gets really heated and they end up just going
home. On the home Gatsby and Daisy road together and Daisy was driving. When the went through Valley of Ashes, Myrtle runs out onto the road and gets hit my Daisy.
The stopped the car for a split second just so Gatsby could switch sits with Daisy, then the took off. Tom, Jordan and Tom were a was back behind Gatsby. When the arrived at the scene Tom automatically thought it was Gatsby, went straight to George Wilson, Myrtles husband, and told him all about Gatsby and something should be done to Gatsby because of this. Tom obviously doesn't like Gatsby and is heart broken by Myrtles death because she was once his mistress. Mr. Wilson had a suspicion that Myrtle was cheating on him but didn't know who and then blames Gatsby for that too. Wilson ended up shooting Gatsby and killing him for what he did. Although he didn't really do it. Daisy didn't speak of a word about it and confessed to her wrong, she just ran away with Tom and Pammy, returning to the money and cluelessness.
Assuming can get people into sticky situation and get the person that is getting assumed will be confused. Like in the movie in this assumption, Gatsby gets killed. In this situation I know that you would care less to ask what actually happened and just go with what you hear because you are so frustrated because your loved one has been killed. And also having people like Tom, convincing you that it was Gatsby.
