Friday, August 17, 2012

The Bitter End

"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away" (Fitzgerald, 177)

Just reading the quote above, I feel like it could come from any of Fitzgerald's male characters at the end of the The Great Gatsby (before two of them die).  In the end, no one was truly happy.  Gatsby did not have Daisy and neither did George.  Mr. Wilson lost his wife, and Nick was exactly where he used to be where he was never happy with in the beginning.  Additional, all of them were in love or at least half in love, but this love would not progress any further, for things had become to bizarre.  I predict that Daisy ends up leaving Tom when she learns of the death of Gatsby, but I could be wrong.  She may find safety in him.  Also, all the men had reason to be sorry.  Gatsby stole a man's wife as did Tom.  Mr. Wilson killed Gatsby, and Nick was not what Jordan expected him to be as a man.  Finally, at the end, they all leave never to return to the life they once knew.