I was shocked by what I read in Chapter 8. The death of Gatsby surprised me greatly. I knew Wilson was going insane after the death of Myrtle and wanted to find out who drove her over but I didn't think that Wilson would take it that far and kill Gatsby and himself. He must have had an insane side to him that people didn't know about. Looking back after reading though you could tell by some of the lines that Fitzgerald wrote that their was something big coming up or a drastic event. An example of a line in this story that could show a big event coming up is when the author writes: "I'm going to drain the pool today, Mr. Gatsby. Leaves'll start falling pretty soon, and their always trouble with the pipes." "Don't do it today," Answered Gatsby" (153). This line and other small lines in the chapter that didn't seem to have any meaning at all ended up having some sort of meaning or some clues to what was going to happen.
Their were so many questions that weren't answered about Gatsby that I wanted to find out while reading this book. I felt that their was much more behind him that the readers never found out. It's sad that his only goal in life was never accomplished. I almost feel like he wasted his whole life on one single thing and that was to find the love of Daisy. That can be a lesson for us. You have to have many different interests and get yourself involved in as many things as possible. We can't go through living this great life that we were given to only dream of one single thing like Gatsby did.
Nice work Adam, great observation about the pool. Think about it though: Gatsby's got this obsession with controlling time, yet he doesn't even notice the life passing before him. This is all represented in the pool - he waits until the coolest day of the summer to take advantage of a pool that he didn't use at all when it was hot outside. His sense of time is all out of whack. Let's talk about that tomorrow. Good post.
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