The Great Gatsby Climax

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Among many people we see in our life time, we don’t always encounter the wrong side of people. Everyone has a dark side in one self, however, we choose to show it in site of desperation among the situation they’re in. In the book, The Great Gatsby, it demonstrates and effectively shows the reader how the dark side will reveal. This book has scenes in the book that play off among itself, for example, leading into a climax. The whole book continues to grow and grow until the end, where everything finally reaches its peak and dies down.

Nick Carraway is the narrator of the book, along with being in the situation. As if Nick Carraway was a bystander, listening and seeing everything that happens between the two oppositions. Mr Gatsby and Daisy
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Willson speechless and wanting revenge. Mr. Willson walked up to Mr. Buchanan and asked who was the owner of that yellow car. Tom Buchanan showed the way to Mr. Gatsby’s house and Mr. Wilson murder Gatsby. After all the love Mr. Gatsby showed to Daisy, Daisy never told anyone who really killed Myrtle nor discussed any of it. Mr. Gatsby was a young fellow, rich and love-trucked by a young Daisy. Mr. Gatsby managed to revive the old love and want to marry Daisy once more but it didn’t happen. During that moment, Daisy managed to stay quiet among the whole thing, thinking that it will just go away. If it cost her anything but her own belongings or her life, she would have took the chance. This confusion over love has lead to three deaths in the book. Myrtle, Gatsby, and Mr. Willson. All influence in some way buy Mr. Bunchanan and Mrs. Bunchanan. Because they are white and rich, they’ll try everything to protect themselves, a darkness in which is needed in a situation in order to clean the mess up. Nobody knows the truth to the whole story. No one knew who killed Myrtle, nor why Mr. Wilson killed Gatsby. The only person who knew was Nick Carraway, they bystander. If Nick acted sooner, the darkness would never had reached in the three lives that where taken away. The book concluded with the Rich who loved others remain rich and memories becoming only memories, while the others rot in soil. The book can relate to real life situations, having to do drastic thing in order to maintain one self. Its a part of human nature to survive, and The Great Gatsby demonstrates an example of pure darkness we see in our daily

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