My Pleasure Reading. Summary (pages 146 – 178)

   On the night after the episode with Myrtle Nick goes to Gatsby and advices him to leave the city for a time. Jay refuses, feeling unable to leave Daisy – he feels uneasy with the fact that though he spent the whole night standing on the lawn of Daisy’s house, she didn’t go out. Gatsby, in his misery, tells Nick the story of his first meeting with Daisy. She was the first "nice" girl Gatsby had ever known or met. His initial plan was to get some backseat action, but then he accidentally fell in love. Before he left for the war, Daisy promised to wait for him. In the war, Gatsby did well for himself and tried to get home as soon as the war was over, but through some error, he was sent to Oxford. Meanwhile, Daisy got tired of waiting for him and married Tom.

   Realizing that it has become very late, Nick says goodbye to Gatsby. As he is walking away, he turns back and shouts the first compliment to Gatsby that he is "worth the whole damn bunch put together”( Buchanas and their friends). But to himself Nick says that he doesn't approve Jay.

   After that we see George Wilson (Myrtle’s husband) who comes to a decision that the driver of the car was Myrtle’s lover and decides to punish him. He seeks out Tom Buchanan, hoping that Tom knows the driver's identity. Tom tells him that Gatsby was the driver. Wilson drives to Gatsby's mansion, shoots him in the pool and then commits a suicide on himself. After a while, Nick and the servants find Gatsby.