Oh my gosh. I totally didn’t realize this never posted and saved into drafts instead. I’m so sorry.
The final chapters of the Great Gatsby give insight into what life is like in his mind. Gatsby has reasons, well, a reason for his actions, and they become evident. All he wants is Daisy. The chapters describe the struggle he has gone through to appeal to her, to just grab her attention again, and the joy he feels once she is his again. Although the story is a tragedy, it really pulls at a reader’s heart, in that the reader feels the pain and joy that Gatsby encounters, even though you only truly see it through Nick’s eyes. The argument with Tom, when Daisy and Gatsby kill Myrtle and he loses her, all of these are so filled with emotion that one can’t help but see that life is just not all that worth living in this story. “Life sucks and then you die.” The sign outside the Wilson’s store truly did have an underlying meaning, and the book represents this well.
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