I guess one way of dying could be by getting caught up in a crazy love pentagon, being involved in a hit and run/homicide, and then being murdered by a half-psychotic maniac. I would prefer something a little less intense, but that's just me. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, just wanted something a little more dramatic, and we can definitely see that!
So this is it then? The Great Gatsby has died- along with the less important Mr. Wilson- as a part of the novel's falling action. So what now, well since that was pretty much the bulk of what happened in this section, along with all the events that led up to it, I feel like I can bring up something I found incredibly random to stick in to the book at this point in time. "'You ought to have a church, George, for times like this. You must have gone to church once. Didn't you get married in a church?...'" (Fitzgerald 165). Where in the world did this sudden concern with religion become a thing? I have not heard a thing about anyone being a man of God or even religious at all. Now all the sudden, because there has been a death, God has become a priority? I understand the need for God in a person's life especially during a tragedy, but I guess I just found it interesting that now for the first time in the course of the novel, religion is mentioned.
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