We Drove on Toward Death

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Chapter 7 pages 125-136

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight" (Fitzgerald, page 136).

I find the quote above to be very dark and sinister. After the blow up between Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy, I am afraid for the fate of the three. Tom has finally decided to come to terms with the fact that Daisy has been sneaking around with Gatsby recently. With this heated argument, I could not help but think about the fact that Tom has another person, too. I wonder if he thinks he can justify his relationship with Myrtle to Daisy but is angry at Daisy for justifying her relationship with Gatsby. I find many of these to people to be hypocritical but specifically Tom for this particular event. The quote I believe is foreshadowing events to come yet wrapping up the past event in the novel. At this point, Tom has given up any restraint he had and the full blown mess has arose in the heat of the argument. Nick, on the other hand, had realized for the first time in the day that it was his birthday. Nick obviously has himself so wrapped up in the situation that he has had no time for himself and when he realizes he has turned thirty, immediately speaks as if his life has already ended because he believes himself to now be old. From this, I believe the downfall of the story is about to occur. I do not believe that this has been the climax but so far, I believe that we are still leading up to a bigger breaking point where everything will totally fall quickly.