It was all about timing- a perfect storm kind of situation. So if one were to ask me, I would blame all of this on the setting. It was night, driving home from a long, stressful, and eventful day. Circumstance and chance played a bigger part in this whole happening than the driver or the driver's pure desire to run over poor Myrtle Wilson in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
So the deed is done, now what happens next? Tom is of course deeply affected by the loss, but has to play it off right now to avoid being connected to the whole situation. Mr. Wilson is devastated and just wants answers. He yells,"'You don't have to tell me what kind of car it was! I know what kind of car it was!'" (Fitzgerald 147). Nick and Jordan are just kind of stuck in the middle of the mess at the moment. Daisy is probably distraught on the inside, but doing a good job of keeping it hidden. And Gatsby, he is just concerned about Daisy- which makes sense after he reveals that she was the driver of the car.
What is to become of this mess now? I'm sure that we will get more answers as we journey on.
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