THE GREAT GATSBY PART 2

CHAP. 5 <86-102> = 16

86: G IS WAITING FOR NICK WHEN HE COMES BACK. 2:00

88: NICK REFUSES TO BE PAID FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR G.

•WHEN N CALLS, DAISY AGREES TO COME.

89: G HAS FLOWERS SENT OVER TO N’S PLACE. NICK’S FINNISH HOUSEKEEPER IS THERE.

•G IS SO NERVOUS HE ALMOST GOES HOME.

90: DAISY ARRIVES.

91: GATSBY MEETS DAISY. HE FREAKS OUT AND ALMOST LEAVES AGAIN.

93: NICK PERSUADES HIM TO STAY.

•NICK GOES OUTSIDE AND LOOKS AT GATSBY’S MANSION. A BREWER HAD BUILT IT TEN YEARS BEFORE. AND IT WAS RUMORED HE WANTED HIS NEIGHBORS TO THATCH THEIR COTTAGES --THEY REFUSED.

•AFTER THAT HE WENT INTO DECLINE AND DIED.

•NICK SAYS: <AMERICANS, WHILE OCCASIONALLY WILLING TO BE SERFS, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OBSTINATE ABOUT BEING PEASANTRY.>

94: GATSBY AND DAISY HAVE RECOVERED.

95: DECIDE TO SEE GATSBY’S MANSION.

•WHEN N AND G ARE ALONE, GATSBY STARTS TO CONTRADICT HIMSELF. SAYS IT ONLY TOOK HIM THREE YEARS TO EARN THE MONEY TO BUY THE HOUSE.

•NICK SAYS HE THOUGHT GATSBY INHERITED HIS MONEY. GATSBY SAYS HIS FAMILY LOST IT --

•HE THEN SAYS HE WAS IN THE DRUG BUSINESS AND THE OIL BUSINESS BUT IS NOT IN ANY NOW.

96: NICK SAYS THAT GATSBY <REVEALED EVERYTHING IN HIS HOUSE ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THE RESPONSE IT DREW FROM HER WELL-LOVED EYES.>

97: NICK SAYS OF GATSBY: <AFTER HIS EMBARRASSMENT AND HIS UNREASONABLE JOY HE WAS CONSUMED WITH WONDER AT HER PRESENCE. HE HAD BEEN FULL OF THE IDEA SO ALONG ...>

98:<IF IT WASN’T FOR THE MIST WE COULD SEE YOUR HOME ACROSS THE BAY, SAID GATSBY. YOU ALWAYS HAVE A GREEN LIGHT THAT BURNS ALL NIGHT AT THE END OF YOUR DOCK.>

•NICK SAYS: <POSSIBLY IT HAD OCCURRED TO HIM THAT THE COLOSSAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT LIGHT HAD NOW VANISHED FOREVER.>

•<NOW IT WAS AGAIN A GREEN LIGHT ON A DOCK. HIS COUNT OF ENCHANTED OBJECTS HAD DIMINISHED BY ONE.>

•NICK SEES A PICTURE OF A MAN NEXT TO A YACHT. GATSBY TELLS HIM IT IS DAN CODY.

98: THERE WAS A PICTURE OF GATSBY IN A YACHTING OUTFIT THAT WAS TAKEN WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 18.

100: HE HAS KLIPSPRINGER PLAY -- <AIN’T WE GOT FUN>.

101: THE SONG SAYS - <THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET CHILDREN>.

•NICK TALKS ABOUT THE <VITALITY OF HIS ILLUSION. IT HAD GONE BEYOND HER, BEYOND EVERYTHING. HE HAD THROWN HIMSELF INTO IT WITH A CREATIVE PASSION, ADDING TO IT ALL THE TIME, DECKING IT OUT WITH EVERY BRIGHT FEATHER THAT DRIFTED HIS WAY. NO AMOUNT OF FIRE OR FRESHNESS CAN CHALLENGE WHAT A MAN WILL STORE UP IN HIS GHOSTLY HEART.

•NICK DESCRIBES DAISY’S VOICE AS A <DEATHLESS SONG>.

102: NICK LEAVES THEM ALONE TOGETHER.

CHAP. 6 <103-118> = 15

103: NICK SAYS NO ONE KNEW THE TRUTH ABOUT GATSBY.

104: HIS NAME WAS JAMES GATZ AND HE WAS FROM NORTH DAKOTA.

•HE CHANGED HIS NAME WHEN HE WAS 17 AND ROWED OUT TO WARN DAN CODY ABOUT A STORM.

•HIS PARENTS WERE SHIFTLESS AND UNSUCCESSFUL FARM PEOPLE-HIS IMAGINATION HAD NEVER REALLY ACCEPTED THEM AS HIS PARENTS AT ALL.

•THE TRUTH WAS THAT JAY GATSBY, OF WEST EGG LONG ISLAND, SPRANG FROM HIS PLATONIC CONCEPTION OF HIMSELF.

•HE WAS A SON OF GOD-- AND HE MUST BE ABOUT HIS FATHER’S BUSINESS, THE SERVICE OF A VAST, VULGAR AND MERETRICIOUS BEAUTY.

•SO HE INVENTED JUST THE SORT OF JAY GATSBY THAT A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD BOY WOULD BE LIKELY TO INVENT, AND TO THIS CONCEPTION HE WAS FAITHFUL TO THE END.

107: NICK DESCRIBES DAN CODY AS A ROUGH SELF-MADE MILLIONAIRE.

106: HE TOOK GATSBY UNDER HIS WING AND GATSBY BECAME HIS <STEWARD>. THIS ARRANGEMENT LASTED FIVE YEARS -- AND THREE TRIPS AROUND THE CONTINENT.

107: WHEN CODY DIED, HE LEFT GATSBY SOME MONEY BUT HE NEVER GOT IT.

•GATSBY HAD TO FILL OUT THE REST OF HIS IDENTITY HIMSELF.

•NICK SAYS GATSBY TOLD HIM THESE THINGS AT A TIME WHEN HE BELIEVED EVERYTHING AND NOTHING ABOUT HIM.

•NICK SAYS HE DIDN’T SEE GATSBY FOR A WHILE BUT THEN WHEN HE WENT TO VISIT HIM SOMEONE BROUGHT TOM IN FOR A DRINK.

108: TOM AND GATSBY HAVE AN UNEASY VISIT. GATSBY TELLS TOM HE KNOWS HIS WIFE.

109: GATSBY INVITES TOM TO ONE OF HIS PARTIES.

•THE WOMAN TOM IS WITH INVITES GATSBY TO DINNER. HE ACCEPTS. HE GOES IN TO CHANGE.

110: TOM IS UPSET. TALKS TO NICK.

•HE WONDERS WHERE GATSBY MET DAISY. <BY GOD, I MAY BE OLD-FASHIONED BUT WOMEN RUN AROUND TOO MUCH THESE DAYS TO SUIT ME.>

•THE WOMAN CHANGES HER MIND AND LEAVES.

•GATSBY COMES OUT JUST AS THEY RIDE OFF.

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110: TOM AND DAISY SHOW UP AT GATSBY’S PARTY THE NEXT SATURDAY.

•NICK SAYS THE ENTIRE EVEN FELT UNPLEASANT.

111: GATSBY INTRODUCES TOM AND DAISY TO A LOT OF HIS CELEBRITY GUESTS -- INTRODUCES TOM AS <THE POLO PLAYER> WHICH ANNOYS TOM.

•THE MORE DAISY IS IMPRESSED, THE MORE ANNOYED TOM BECOMES.

112: DAISY DANCES WITH GATSBY WHILE TOM LOOKS FOR GIRLS.

113: NICK DESCRIBES DAISY’S DISLIKE OF THE PARTY --

<SHE WAS APPALLED BY WEST EGG, THIS UNPRECEDENTED PLACE THAT BROADWAY HAD BEGOTTEN UPON A LONG ISLAND FISHING VILLAGE-APPALLED BY ITS RAW VIGOR THAT CHAFFED UNDER THE OLD EUPHEMISMS AND BY THE TOO OBTRUSIVE FATE THAT HERDED ITS INHABITANTS ALONG A SHORT CUT FROM NOTHING TO NOTHING. SHE SAW SOMETHING AWFUL IN THE SIMPLICITY SHE FAILED TO UNDERSTAND.>

114: TOM ASKS IF GATSBY IS A BOOTLEGGER. NOT GATSBY, NICK REPLIES.

115: TOM SAYS HE WILL FIND OUT ABOUT GATSBY. FIND OUT WHO HE IS.

•GATSBY ASKS NICK TO STAY. THEY GO FOR A LATE NIGHT SWIM.

116: GATSBY IS UPSET THAT DAISY DIDN’T LIKE HE PARTY.

•<HE WANTED NOTHING LESS OF DAISY THAN THAT SHE SHOULD GO TO TOM AND SAY: “I NEVER LOVED YOU.” AFTER SHE HAD OBLITERATED THREE YEARS WITH THAT SENTENCE ...

•... AFTER SHE WAS FREE, THEY WERE TO GO BACK TO LOUISVILLE AND BE MARRIED IN HER HOUSE -- JUST AS IF IT WERE FIVE YEARS AGO.>

•<NICK SAYS: <DON’T ASK TOO MUCH OF HER. YOU CAN’T REPEAT THE PAST.>

•GATSBY REPLIES: “CAN’T REPEAT THE PAST. WHY OF COURSE YOU CAN.”

117: GATSBY SAYS: <I’M GOING TO FIX EVERYTHING JUST THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE. SHE’LL SEE.>

•<HE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE PAST AND I GATHERED THAT HE WANTED TO RECOVER SOMETHING, SOME IDEA OF HIMSELF PERHAPS, THAT HAD GONE INTO LOVING DAISY. HIS LIFE HAD BEEN CONFUSED AND DISORDERED SINCE HEN, BUT IF HE COULD RETURN TO A CERTAIN STARTING PLACE AND GO OVER IT ALL SLOWLY, HE COULD FIND OUT WHAT THAT THING WAS ...”

118: THIS WAS THE STORY GATSBY WAS TELLING NICK. NICK REFERS TO GATSBY’S “APPALLING SENTIMENTALITY.” BUT WHEN HE WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING, HE IS SPEECHLESS.

CHAP. 7 <119-153> = 34

119: GATSBY HOUSE LIGHTS GO OUT FOREVER. HIS CAREER AS “TRIMALCHIO” <GIVER OF LAVISH PARTIES> WAS OVER.

•SEEING THAT DAISY DID NOT LIKE HIS BIG PARTIES, HE ENDED THEM.

120: HE FIRED ALL HIS SERVANTS -- SO THERE WOULD BE NO GOSSIP ABOUT DAISY -- WHO GOES TO VISIT GATSBY OFTEN.

•HIS NEW PEOPLE ARE FRIENDS OF WOLFSHEIM’S.

121: DAISY INVITES NICK TO HER HOUSE. GATSBY AND DAISY ARE GOING TO TELL TOM ABOUT THEIR AFFAIR.

122: NICK GOES. IT IS VERY HOT.

•TOM IS TALKING TO MYRTLE ON THE PHONE.

•TOM SHAKES GATSBY’ HAND WITH WELL-CONCEALED DISLIKE.

•WHEN TOM IS GONE, DAISY SAYS <YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.>

•PAMMY, DAISY’S DAUGHTER ENTERS. GATSBY SEES HER FOR THE FIRST TIME. NICK SAYS <I DON’T THINK HE EVER BELIEVED IN ITS EXISTENCE BEFORE.>

•DAISY SAYS SHE LOOKS LIKE HER -- NOT TOM.

•GATSBY POINTS OUT HIS MANSION -- TELLS TOM HE IS RIGHT ACROSS FROM HIM.

•BOREDOM. DAISY SAYS: <WHAT’LL WE DO WITH OURSELVES THIS AFTERNOON? -- AND THE DAY AFTER THAT, AND THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS?”

•DAISY HATES THE HEAT. SUGGESTS THEY GO INTO NEW YORK.

•DAISY SAYS OF GATSBY -- <YOU LOOK SO COOL -- YOU ALWAYS LOOK SO COOL.>

•NICK SAYS: <HE HAD TOLD HIM THAT SHE LOVED HIM., AND TOM BUCHANAN SAW. HE WAS ASTOUNDED. HIS MOUTH OPENED A LITTLE, AND HE LOOKED AT GATSBY ...>

•TOM DEMANDS THEY GO TO TOWN.

•TOM GETS SOME WHISKEY. <SHE’S GOT AN INDISCREET VOICE> NICK SAYS.

•<HER VOICE IS FULL OF MONEY,> GATSBY SAID SUDDENLY.

•<THAT WAS IT. I’D NEVER UNDERSTOOD IT BEFORE. IT WAS FULL OF MONEY -- THAT WAS THE INEXHAUSTIBLE CHARM THAT ROSE AND FELL IN IT, THE JINGLE OF IT, THE CYMBAL’S SONG OF IT ... HIGH IN A WHITE PALACE THE KING’S DAUGHTER, THE GOLDEN GIRL ...>

•TOM SUGGESTS THAT GATSBY DRIVE HIS CAR -- TOM CALLS IT CIRCUS WAGON --

•BUT DAISY SAYS SHE WILL GO WITH GATSBY.

•<DID YOU SEE THAT?> DEMANDED TOM. WHEN NICK DOESN’T REPLY -- TOM SAYS <YOU THINK I’M PRETTY DUMB, DON’T YOU?> HE SAYS HE HAS A SECOND SIGHT THAT TELLS HIM WHAT TO DO.

•TOM SAYS HE MADE AN INVESTIGATION INTO GATSBY’ PAST.

•THEY STOP AT WILSON’S GARAGE FOR GAS. WILSON SAYS HE IS SICK AND NEEDS MONEY TO TAKE MYRTLE WEST.

•NICK SAYS THAT WILSON APPARENTLY <DISCOVERED THAT MYRTLE HAD SOME SORT OF LIFE APART FROM HIM [JUST AS TOM HAD FOUND OUT THE SAME ABOUT DAISY] IN ANOTHER WORLD, AND THE SHOCK HAD MADE HIM PHYSICALLY SICK.>

•<I STARED AT HIM AND THEN AT TOM, WHO HAD MADE THE PARALLEL DISCOVERY LESS THAN AN HOUR BEFORE -- AND IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN, IN INTELLIGENCE OR RACE, SO PROFOUND AS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SICK AND THE WELL.>

•<I’LL LET YOU HAVE THAT CAR,> SAID TOM. <I’LL SEND IT OVER TOMORROW AFTERNOON.>

•NICK SEES MYRTLE WILSON LOOKING DOWN AT THEM FROM THE WINDOW OVER THE GARAGE.

•<-- I REALIZED THAT HE EYES, WIDE WITH JEALOUS TERROR, WERE FIXED NOT ON TOM, BUT ON JORDAN BAKER, WHOM HE TOOK TO BE HIS WIFE.>

•<THERE IS NO CONFUSION LIKE THE CONFUSION OF A SIMPLE MIND, AND AS WE DROVE AWAY TOM WAS FEELING THE HOT WHIPS OF PANIC. HIS WIFE AND MISTRESS, UNTIL AN HOUR AGO SECURE AND INVIOLATE, WERE SLIPPING PRECIPITATELY FROM HIS CONTROL.>

•THEY RENT A ROOM AT THE PLAZA HOTEL AND START ARGUING.

•TOM CHALLENGES GATSBY’ BEING AN <OXFORD MAN.>

•GATSBY EXPLAINS HE WENT TO OXFORD FOR FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE WAR. NICK IS RELIEVED.

•TOM THEN ASKS HIM <WHAT KIND OF ROW YOU ARE TRYING TO CAUSE IN MY HOUSE ANYHOW?>

•DAISY TELLS HIM TO SHOW SOME SELF-CONTROL.

•TOM REPLIES: <I SUPPOSE THE LATEST THING IS TO SIT BACK AND LET MR. NOBODY FROM NOWHERE MAKE LOVE TO YOUR WIFE -- NOWADAYS PEOPLE BEGIN BY SNEERING AT FAMILY LIFE AND FAMILY INSTITUTIONS, AND NEXT THEY’LL THROW EVERYTHING OVERBOARD AND HAVE MARRIAGE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE.>

•NICK SAYS: <FLUSHED WITH HIS IMPASSIONED GIBBERISH, HE SAW HIMSELF STANDING ALONE ON THE LAST BARRIER OF CIVILIZATION.

•<I WAS TEMPTED TO LAUGH WHENEVER HE OPENED HIS MOUTH. THE TRANSITION FROM LIBERTINE TO PRIG WAS SO COMPLETE.>

•<YOUR LIVE DOESN’T LOVE YOU> SAID GATSBY. <SHE’S NEVER LOVED YOU. SHE LOVES ME.>

•THEY START ARGUING. GATSBY KEEPS INSISTING DAISY NEVER LOVED ANYONE BUT HIM. <I USED TO LAUGH SOMETIMES TO THINK YOU DIDN’T KNOW.>

•TOM SAYS HE KNOWS DAISY LOVES HIM. <AND WHAT’S MORE, I LOVE DAISY TOO. ONCE IN A WHILE I GO OFF ON A SPREE AND MAKE A FOOL OF MYSELF, BUT I ALWAYS COME BACK, AND IN MY HEART I LOVE HER ALL THE TIME.>

•TOM AND GATSBY FIGHT OVER DAISY. GATSBY ASKS HER TO TELL TOM.

•<SHE HESITATED. HER EYES FELL ON JORDAN AND ME WITH A SORT OF APPEAL, AS THOUGH SHE REALIZED AT LAST WHAT SHE WAS DOING -- AND AS THOUGH SHE HAD NEVER, ALL ALONG, INTENDED DOING ANYTHING AT ALL. BUT IT WAS DONE NOW. IT WAS TOO LATE.

•<YOU WANT TOO MUCH> SHE CRIED TO GATSBY. <I LOVE YOU NOW. ISN’T THAT ENOUGH?>

•<I DID LOVE YOU ONCE -- BUT I LOVED YOU TOO.> SHE SAYS SHE CAN’T DENY SHE LOVED TOM AT ONE TIME.

•GATSBY SAYS DAISY IS LEAVING TOM BUT TOM FIGHTS BACK BY TELLING DAISY THAT GATSBY IS INVOLVED IN BOOTLEGGING AND OTHER ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. SHE WITHDRAWS.

•NICK SAYS GATSBY LOOKED LIKE HE HAD KILLED A MAN.

•TOM TELLS DAISY TO GO HOME IN GATSBY’ CAR. TOM DOES THIS BECAUSE HE BELIEVES HER AFFAIR WITH GATSBY IS OVER.

•THEY RETURN WITH TOM. NICK SAYS IT IS HIS BIRTHDAY. HE IS 30. <THIRTY-- THE PROMISE OF A DECADE OF LONELINESS, A THINNING LIST OF SINGLE MEN TO KNOW, A THINNING BRIEFCASE OF ENTHUSIASM, THINNING HAIR.> HE FORGETS ALL THIS WHEN JORDAN PUTS HER HEAD ON HIS SHOULDER.

•<SO WE MOVE ON TOWARD DEATH THROUGH THE COOLING LIGHT.>

•BACK AT WILSON’S GARAGE, HE IS TALKING TO THE YOUNG GREEK, MICHAELIS, AND SAYS HE HAS MYRTLE LOCKED UP AND THAT HE IS GOING TO TAKE HER AWAY.

•HE LEFT AS HE HEARD MYRTLE CRYING -- <THROW ME DOWN AND BEAT ME YOU DIRTY LITTLE COWARD.>

•THEN MYRTLE RAN OUT INTO THE ROAD AND WAS KILLED.

•SHE WAS RIPPED OPEN.

•NICK SAYS THE CAME UPON THE ACCIDENT LATER. TOM WANTS TO STOP AND LOOK.

•MICHAELIS SAYS IT WAS A BIG YELLOW CAR THAT HIT HER. TOM GOES TO WILSON TO EXPLAIN THAT IT WASN’T HIS CAR THAT HIT MYRTLE -- HE LIES AND SAYS HE WAS BRINGING THE BLUE CAR TO GIVE TO WILSON. HE KEEPS SAYING THAT WILSON <KNOWS IT WAS A YELLOW CAR>.

•AFTER THEY LEAVE, TOM STARTS CRYING -- <THE GOD DAMNED COWARD. HE DIDN’T EVEN STOP HIS CAR.>

•DAISY WAS HOME. TOM CALLED A CAB FOR NICK. NICK WON’T GO INSIDE. HE HAD HAD ENOUGH OF THEM FOR ONE DAY. THAT INCLUDED JORDAN TOO. HE WAS LEFT OUTSIDE ALONE.

•HE WALKS TOWARDS THE GATE AND MEETS GATSBY.

•NICK DISLIKES HIM, THEN LEARNS DAISY WAS DRIVING. GATSBY SAYS HE WILL COVER FOR DAISY.

•GATSBY SAYS THE WOMAN RAN TO THEM <THOUGHT WE WERE SOMEBODY SHE KNEW.>

•SO GATSBY WAS WAITING TO SEE IF SHE WAS ALL RIGHT.

•NICK GOES BACK TO CHECK THE HOUSE -- HE SEES TOM AND DAISY TOGETHER. <THEY WEREN’T HAPPY -- AND YET THEY WEREN’T UNHAPPY EITHER. THERE WAS AN UNMISTAKABLE AIR OF NATURAL INTIMACY ABOUT THE PICTURE, AND ANYBODY HAVE SAID THAT THEY WERE CONSPIRING TOGETHER.>

•NICK SAYS SHE IS OK. GATSBY SAYS HE WILL WAIT ANYWAY. <SO I WALKED AWAY AND LEFT HIM STANDING THERE IN THE MOONLIGHT -- WATCHING OVER NOTHING.>

CHAP. 8 <154-170> = 16

•NICK TELLS GATSBY TO GO AWAY BECAUSE THEY WILL TRACE HIS CAR. BUT HE DIDN’T WANT TO LEAVE DAISY. HE STILL THOUGHT SHE WOULD COME TO HIM.

•THIS IS WHEN HE TOLD NICK ABOUT DAN CODY -- <TOLD IT TO ME BECAUSE <JAY GATSBY> HAD BROKEN UP LIKE GLASS AGAINST TOM’S HARD MALICE, AND THE LONG SECRET EXTRAVAGANZA WAS PLAYED OUT.>

•HE ADMITS HE HAD TAKEN HER UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. SHE DID NOT KNOW HE WAS POOR. HE HID BEHIND HIS OFFICER’S UNIFORM AND IMPLIED HE WAS WEALTHY LIKE HER.

•<HE HAD INTENDED, PROBABLY, TO TAKE WHAT HE COULD AND GO -- BUT NOW HE FOUND THAT HE HAD COMMITTED HIMSELF TO THE FOLLOWING OF A GRAIL.

•<HE KNEW THAT DAISY WAS EXTRAORDINARY, BUT HE DIDN’T REALIZE JUST HOW EXTRAORDINARY A “NICE’ GIRL WOULD BE. SHE VANISHED INTO HER RICH HOUSE, INTO HER RICH, FULL LIFE, LEAVING GATSBY -- NOTHING. HE FELT MARRIED TO HER, THAT WAS ALL.>

•THROUGH DAISY, <GATSBY WAS OVERWHELMINGLY AWARE OF THE YOUTH AND MYSTERY THAT WEALTH IMPRISONS AND PRESERVES, OF THE FRESHNESS OF MANY CLOTHES, AND OF DAISY, GLEAMING LIKE SILVER, SAFE AND PROUD ABOVE THE HOT STRUGGLES OF THE POOR.>

•THEY WERE BOTH IN LOVE. HE WAITED FOR HIM TO RETURN FROM THE WAR, BUT HE DIDN’T RETURN AS SOON AS SHE NEEDED. SHE STARTED GOING OUT AGAIN. <SHE WANTED HER LIFE TO BE SHAPED NOW, IMMEDIATELY.>

•THEN CAME TOM INTO HER LIFE. <DOUBTLESS THERE WAS A CERTAIN STRUGGLE AND A CERTAIN RELIEF.>

•LATER GATSBY ADMITS SHE MIGHT HAVE LOVED TOM WHEN THEY WERE FIRST MARRIED <AND LOVED ME EVEN MORE THEN, DO YOU SEE?>

•<IN ANY CASE> GATSBY SAYS <IT WAS JUST PERSONAL.>

•NICK STAYS WITH GATSBY. HE DOESN’T WANT TO LEAVE HIM.

•GATSBY KEEPS THINKING DAISY WILL CALL.

•NICK CALLS OUT AS HE LEAVES. <THEY’RE A ROTTEN CROWD. YOU’RE WORTH THE WHOLE DAMN BUNCH PUT TOGETHER.>

•NICK SAYS: <I’VE ALWAYS BEEN GLAD I SAID THAT. IT WAS THE ONLY COMPLEMENT I EVER GAVE HIM, BECAUSE I DISAPPROVED OF HIM FROM BEGINNING TO END.>

•NICK REMEMBERS GATSBY’S <INCORRUPTIBLE DREAM>.

•NICK IS BACK IN NEW YORK AND JORDAN CALLS. SHE WANTS TO SEE HIM BUT HE REFUSES.

•THE NEXT MORNING HE PASSES WILSON’S GARAGE AND LOOKS OUT FROM THE TRAIN.

•HE DESCRIBES THE AFTERMATH OF THE ACCIDENT. WILSON HAD BECOME UNHINGED. MICHAELIS STAYED WITH HIM.

•WILSON KEPT TALKING ABOUT THE YELLOW CAR AND SAID HE HAD A WAY OF FINDING OUT WHO IT BELONGED TO. HE REMEMBERED MYRTLE COMING BACK FROM THE CITY WITH HER FACE BASHED IN.

•WILSON SHOWS MICHAELIS THE SILVER DOG COLLAR.

•WILSON SAYS THE MAN IN THE YELLOW CAR <KILLED HER.>

•HE MAKES A SPEECH SIMILAR TO TOM’S. <I’M ONE OF THOSE TRUSTING FELLAS AND I DON’T THINK ANY HARM TO NOBODY, BUT WHEN I GET TO KNOW A THING I KNOW IT. IT WAS THE MAN IN THE CAR. SHE RAN OUT TO SPEAK TO HIM AND HE WOULDN’T STOP.>

•MICHAELIS GUESSED <WILSON HAD NO FRIENDS: THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH OF HIM FOR HIS WIFE.>

•WILSON HAD TOLD HER <YOU CAN FOOL ME BUT YOU CAN’ FOOL GOD.> HE WAS LOOKING AT THE EYES OF DR. T.J. ECKLEBERG. MICHAELIS SAYS: <THAT’S AN ADVERTISEMENT.>

•NICK SAYS THAT WILSON LEFT TO FIND OUT WHO OWNED THE YELLOW CAR. HE FOUND OUT IT BELONGED TO GATSBY.

•GATSBY WAS IN HIS SWIMMING POOL WHEN WILSON FOUND HIM. NICK SAYS: <I HAVE AN IDEA THAT GATSBY HIMSELF DIDN’T BELIEVE IT WOULD COME, AND PERHAPS HE NO LONGER CARED -- HE MUST HAVE LOOKED UP NOW AT AN UNFAMILIAR SKY THROUGH FRIGHTENING LEAVES AND SHIVERED AS HE FOUND WHAT A GROTESQUE THING A ROSE IS.>

•NICK AND THREE SERVANTS FOUND HIM.

•WILSON’S BODY WAS A LITTLE WAYS OFF. <THE HOLOCAUST WAS COMPLETE.> [LAST CHAPTER IS MISSING]