The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I
couldn’t sleep all night” (Fitzgerald, 147). The night before, Mrs. Wilson was
hit by a car and died on impact. Earlier, we had Gatsby declare his love for
Daisy. Then he declared that Daisy never loved Buchanan. This is the climax of
the story. Before this, we had Gatsby trying to reconnect with Daisy. He was
trying to see if she still loved him. This sequence of events is a part of the
rising action that led to the climax. The beginning of the book was exposition.
It fed us background information so we would understand the climax. I believe
that the death of Mrs. Wilson was a major turning point in the book. It
foreshadows Gatsby’s demise. Fitzgerald’s narrative hooks are not as good as
Wharton’s hooks but he does end each chapter with a small mysterious element
that suggests that the answer might be in the next chapter.
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