Page 25. A wrecked, dust-covered Ford is the only car visible inside the Wilsons’ garage.
Page 114. In the sweltering heat, Nick describes a car as being on the “edge of combustion”
Page 136. Nick, Tom, Jordan drive off “toward[s] death through the cooing twilight” after wrapping up the face off between Tom and Gatsby. CM. Fitzgerald portrays cars as being wrecked and mistreated by nature. The wrecked Ford is coated in dust, the decay and remains of what use to be living, and a car is on the edge of bursting into flames. Fitzgerald then foreshadows that more car mishaps are sure to come. Even more so when he states that Nick, Jordan, and Tom ride off “toward[s] death through the cooing twilight.” As the car drives off towards the future and what is yet to come, the day also comes to an end.
Page 57- 58. Jordan’s carelessness and apathy becomes apparent when she ruins a convertible she doesn’t own and when she drives so recklessly, she …show more content…
As Nick and Gatsby pass by a funeral on their way to New York, the somber atmosphere is quickly replaced, being brushed aside as if it is something of a nuisance. This incident foreshadows Gatsby’s reaction of the deaths to come and how easily he brushes aside death in order to achieve what he wants. In correlation, Nick states early in the novel that Chicago is mourning the absence of the Buchanans by painting the back wheel black,like a funeral wreath. He says this implying that the town is sad they are gone, but in reality Chicago is grieving because of the state in which Tom and Daisy left it in. Later in the novel it is revealed that something embarrassing happened between Tom and Daisy that made them leave town, implying that the Buchanans leave chaos everywhere they go. Finally when Daisy leaves her final trace of chaos, Catherine is stated to be driven “in the wake of her sister’s body.” As Daisy leaves, Catherine is left to pray and watch over her sister’s body as it is removed from the scene of the hit and
Page 114. In the sweltering heat, Nick describes a car as being on the “edge of combustion”
Page 136. Nick, Tom, Jordan drive off “toward[s] death through the cooing twilight” after wrapping up the face off between Tom and Gatsby. CM. Fitzgerald portrays cars as being wrecked and mistreated by nature. The wrecked Ford is coated in dust, the decay and remains of what use to be living, and a car is on the edge of bursting into flames. Fitzgerald then foreshadows that more car mishaps are sure to come. Even more so when he states that Nick, Jordan, and Tom ride off “toward[s] death through the cooing twilight.” As the car drives off towards the future and what is yet to come, the day also comes to an end.
Page 57- 58. Jordan’s carelessness and apathy becomes apparent when she ruins a convertible she doesn’t own and when she drives so recklessly, she …show more content…
As Nick and Gatsby pass by a funeral on their way to New York, the somber atmosphere is quickly replaced, being brushed aside as if it is something of a nuisance. This incident foreshadows Gatsby’s reaction of the deaths to come and how easily he brushes aside death in order to achieve what he wants. In correlation, Nick states early in the novel that Chicago is mourning the absence of the Buchanans by painting the back wheel black,like a funeral wreath. He says this implying that the town is sad they are gone, but in reality Chicago is grieving because of the state in which Tom and Daisy left it in. Later in the novel it is revealed that something embarrassing happened between Tom and Daisy that made them leave town, implying that the Buchanans leave chaos everywhere they go. Finally when Daisy leaves her final trace of chaos, Catherine is stated to be driven “in the wake of her sister’s body.” As Daisy leaves, Catherine is left to pray and watch over her sister’s body as it is removed from the scene of the hit and