The Great Gatsby Pgs. 157-168

In this section of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby meets an untimely demise. Distraught over his wife's death, George searches for his wife's killer, sure the driver of the yellow car was also the man she was cheating with. In all reality, the man George killed was neither. Gatsby was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, and because of that was killed by George. I found this event very sad, and grim. I had been holding out for a happy ending, and I knew all was lost when shots were fired. I don't understand why authors think their books have to be tragedies. I like a happy ending just as much as a sad one, and think it works just as well. Anyways, this section, also made me ever angrier at Tom. Tom in all reality gets Gatsby killed. Myrtle saw Tom drive up to the garage in Gatsby's car earlier, and she is trying to get Tom's attention when Daisy hits her.Tom has been nothing but bad in this story since the beginning. It also seems Nick is finding it hard to find Gatsby's true friends, who knew who he truly was. No one seems to want to admit their connections to old Gatsby, and I find that sad. "It was after we started with Gatsby toword the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete" (Fitzgerald 162). The word holocaust is used in this sentence, and while if you're just reading this quote it may seem overblown, but after reading the book, and investing into the characters, it seems fitting to call the killing of two people a holocaust. I have enjoyed this book, and wish that Gatsby had gotten what he wanted. I wonder what surprises, if any will come in the last section.