The Great Gatsby -13

Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is devastating with two deaths. The death of Gatsby and the death of Wilson. Thinking that whoever killed Myrtle was his lover, Wilson traces Gatsby as the driver of the car. Enraged, Wilson goes out to find Gatsby and shoots him and then shoots himself. Absolutely shocked, Nick finds Gatsby's dead body floating in the pool. This chapter shows a great deal of irony as well as chapter 7 because at one point a servant of Gatsby's says, "'I'm going to drain the pool today, Mr Gatsby. Leaves'll start falling pretty soon, and then there's always trouble with the pipes'" [Fitzgerald,153]. If Gatsby would have agreed to let his servant drain the pool, Gatsby would have never gone in and would have probably not been killed by Mr. Wilson. Needless to say, there's always a possibility that he could have gone into his house and killed him anyway.