"The Great Gatsby" Reading Log - Chapter 8

Chapter 8 is a big chapter for me. The most iconic and important one dies in this chapter, Jay Gatsby. Shot in cold blood in his own swimming pool by George Wilson. It wasn't completely unexpected that he was going to die somehow. Right when Myrtle was brutally killed  knew someone how something coming to them. Right from the beginning George Wilson didn't struck me as a person who would get revenge, little alone kill someone. I guess that's maybe why he killed himself immediately after killing Gatsby. Wilson knew he couldn't handle the guilty of murdering someone so he avoided it by freeing himself from it with a bullet. Even suicide seems extreme for Wilson, he never seemed to be that kind of person with the will power to be able to pull the trigger and end his own life. He must have really loved Myrtle and believed that he could be with her quicker that way. In the middle of the chapter Wilson explains the purpose of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg's enormous eyes. They are the eyes of God, and "God sees everything." So he was seen as a religious man i suppose. But if he was seen this why and he knew got see's everything why would he still get revenge and kill? Maybe it was something that he had to do because he had nothing else to live for, without Myrtle he had no purpose left in life and he must have figured there was one thing left for him to do; revenge. Fizgerald uses the weather to describe Gatsby’s house as gloomy, dark and dusty, this represents his loneliness in life. He also uses weather to foreshadow the death scene that is about to occur when he mentions the birds circling which usually infer death. This described Gatsby's mood and love life.  

Gods all seeing eyes.