In this section of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, we learn a crucial fact about Gatsby. This comes with vital knowledge about Daisy. When Daisy was younger, and Gatsby was getting ready to go to war, they dated for a while. Daisy was very much in love with him, but her family would not have it. The next summer, she ended up marrying Tom, regretfully, it seemed. We now know why
Gatsby is in this story, he and Daisy will be a budding romance. Also, adding to Gatsby's mysterious ways, we learn of one of his friends, "Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he's a gambler. Gatsby hesitated then added coolly : He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919" (Fitzgerald, 73). I hope they end up together, unlike the characters in Mirth, that were constantly being pulled toward and away, only to end up alone without each other. I hope this story has a better ending than Mirth, that is happier. I hope all the characters get what they want and need. If this story does not end up better, I feel I will be bitter towards the both of them. While I can understand these books separately, they do seem to come hand in hand. 6
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