Turning point, here we are. I did believe that the heated discussion between Tom and Gatsby over Daisy is climax worthy for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. However, I then continued on to find that Myrtle had been run over by a car and instantly killed. That was the definite turning point in the novel.
Fighting for the love of Daisy, Tom and Gatsby make incredibly personal attacks at each other, and I followed along completely engrossed in the conflict. Gatsby knows he has Daisy's love now, but in his flaunting that in Tom's face, he also learns that Daisy did love Tom at a point in time.
Then I take time to think about Daisy's part in all of this mess. While at first, I may have felt bad for her, she put this upon herself. Having Gatsby and Tom in the same room at all was asking for it in my opinion. Furthmore, she continues to stun readers by dropping a bomb to her husband. "'Daisy's leaving you,'" (Fitzgerald 141) says Gatsby to Tom.
Arguing, pointing fingers, making accusations, then of course, what better way to end a this night than with someone dying. And lastly, we are left with many questions that will hopefully be resolved in the falling action of the novel.
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