The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The last part of chapter 8 and the entirety of chapter 9 contained the falling action and resolution.
Falling Action: After the death of Myrtle, Wilson sort of loses his mind and begins to investigate her death. He tries to find out who the owner of the car is (we know), and when he does, he goes to his house and presumably shoots him then himself. Like I said before, this scene was written so beautifully that I sort of missed the actual death because the beauty hides it so well. "Its accidental course with its accidental burden" (Fitzgerald, page 162) describes Gatsby's death so perfectly. The weirdest part of the whole thing is that Daisy leaves and is nowhere to be seen. Why didn't she come to see him at all or at least go to his funeral? I'll blame Tom; he probably refused to let her out of his sight after the affair with Gatsby...I hate Tom. So that was weird, but also, where was Jordan? She seemed to be friends with him, and she didn't attend the funeral or even call Nick about him.
Resolution/ Denouement: The story ends with Gatsby's terrible funeral. It was just really sad that only three people attended the man's funeral. Even though he may not have been the nicest, most truthful, or most legal person, there should have been more people mourning his passing than three. I did really like Jay's father and wish we could have learned more about his past and views of his son, but we only got a few pages in the last chapter. "Owl Eyes" also attended, but I still don't really understand his purpose. The last chapter also contains Nicks meeting with Tom where he felt he could not tell him the truth of what happened that night. I wonder if Tom would have ended it with Daisy if he had known that she was the one who killed Myrtle... I guess I'm glad that Nick didn't say anything about it.
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