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The Pool
Foreshadowing
Death Descriptions
Who dun it?
100
How many years were Gatsby and Daisy apart?
5 years
100
How did George Wilson know the yellow the yellow car was Gatsby's?
He spends the whole morning looking for the the car which leads him to Tom, who tells him that it is Gatsby's car.
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Describe Gatsby's death.
Gatsby was finally laying in his pool after a long summer, and was shot. He didn't suffer, just fell and floated.
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Who literally killed Gatsby?
George Wilson
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Why did the butler want to drain the pool?
Autumn was beginning and he didn't want leaves to clog the drain.
200
Mention one instance when Gatsby's death is foreshadowed.
Fitzgerald writes that "So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."; this foreshadows both Myrtle's and Gatsby's deaths
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Describe Myrtle's death.
She threw herself in front of Gatsby's car. She was all mangled, and the book describes her mouth being torn, and her left breast almost completely off.
200
Who figuratively killed Gatsby?
Himself, Daisy, Tom Buchanan
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What does Gatsby tell the butler when he is going to drain the pool?
He says to wait because he wasn't able to use it and he was going to.
300
Why is Gatsby killed?
Gatsby is killed because George Wilson believes that he was driving the yellow car that killed his wife.
300
How has Myrtle's affair with Tom affected the novel?
Myrtle kept her love for Tom a secret the whole time it occurred. Towards the end of the novel, she tried so hard to be with him that it led to her death.
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What role did Gatsby play in his own death?
Gatsby's ambition and love for Daisy led to the events causing his rivalry with Tom who informed George Wilson that it was Gatsby's car that killed Myrtle.
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What is Gatsby's response when Nick tells him, "You can't repeat the past (with Daisy)"?
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
400
Does the reader expect Gatsby's death?
Yes, ever since Daisy and Gatsby began to rekindle their love, his death has been inevitable Weather foreshadows "So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
400
What was Gatsby's lifestyle before he met Dan Cody. What was his lifestyle when he died?
Gatsby came into this world with nothing. He was poor and had no one. When he died, he didn't have Daisy in his life, and he left the world with nothing as well.
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What role did society play in Gatsby's death?
Society influenced Gatsby's over ambition which was very much due to his love for Daisy, this ambition led to his extravagant lifestyle and later to the complicated events of his death.
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