In this chapter, we witness the weight of promises. Gatsby spills his love story with Nick, admitting that after they made love Daisy promised to wait until after he returned from the war to marry him. As we know, her plans fell through with her marriage to Tom. I'm sure that if Gatsby was not such a gentleman, he would say something like what the man in Lady Antebellum's song Things That People Say is saying to his lost love. But all of Gatsby's regrets mean little as his tragedy comes to an end with his murder. How ironic that the one avenging Myrtle's death is her "lifeless" husband, not her lover with whom she had rathered to spend her time. George acts out some of the same emotions that Gatsby has felt throughout the novel: betrayal, a broken heart, despair, and anger while he takes his own life. Now the blood of two men trapped in unrequited love is on the hands of Daisy. "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete," (Fitzgerald, 162).
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