Chapter 9 Homework
Pretend
to be a detective and write a detective story about how Gatsby was killed and
what led to his death (you need to include the involvement of Daisy, Tom and
Myrtle & George Wilson).
On the fall of 1922, Jay Gatsby was
killed by George Wilson. I investigated around the mansion. I asked the
chauffeur—he was one of Wolfshiem's proteges heard the shots. Afterward he
could only say that he didn't thought anything much about them. The chauffeur,
butler, gardener and Nick Carraway hurried down to the pool. They said there
was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from
one end urged its way toward the drain at the other. With little ripples that
there were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly
down the pool and Gatsby's body was floated on the water. Toward the house that
the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust
was complete.
When and how did George Wilson kill Gatsby? By half
past two he was in West Egg where he asked someone the way to Gatsby's house.
At Two Thirty George Wilson used his gun to kill Gatsby in the pool then he
killed himself. Why he killed himself? I guess it's because when he realizes he
killed the wrong man, he takes his own life.
Why he killed Gatsby? The story began like this; Tom
was having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a garage attendant. Wilson
was unaware that his wife has been cheating on him. After finding out Myrtle's
infidelities, Wilson becomes physically ill and determines to move her out
west; his illness turns mental, however, once she got run over by an oncoming
car that hits her and never stops. Wilson seeks crazed vengeance for her wife's
death and his own pride. Wilson was
on foot all the time going from garage to garage to search for the station
wagon's owner. There were boys who
had seen a man "acting sort of crazy" and motorists at whom he stared
oddly from the side of road. Then for three hours he disappeared from view. I guess finally he remember that Tom
was driving the yellow car to New York the early in the afternoon. Therefore he
went to Tom's house and asked about whom own the car.
By the time Wilson arrived at Tom's house, he and
Daisy, who is Tom's wife were getting ready to leave the town. Tom insists that George was in a
maddened state of mind and that he himself would have been killed had he not
given Gatsby's name. On the other hand, Tom's discovery of the relationship
between Gatsby and his wife causes him to give Wilson the information about the
car that early that evening killed his wife. Tom made Gatsby out to be the bad
guy in George's eyes. The truth was
that it was Daisy who drove the yellow car from New York, but she didn't
confess that she is the one who killed Myrtle. Gatsby's love for Daisy led him
into an affair and eventually to his death.