up a meeting between Daisy and Gatsby and the two reawaken their lost friendship an old love. Meanwhile, Tom, husband of Daisy is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of George Wilson, a poor, lower class gas station attendant. Upon learning of his wifes affair, Wilson locks her in a room and insists that they move far away from his wifes lover. Myrtle escapes this room and rushes into the street to find Tom where the Gatsbys Rolls Royce, driven by Daisy, hits her. After doing some investigating, and after being misled by Tom, Wilson believes that it is Gatsby that is having the affair with his wife. Wilson sets out to find Gatsby and kill him. When Wilson reaches upon Gatsby, he shoots him. Wilson feels so terrible that he turns his gun at his head and shoots himself. After the hustle and bustles dies down, Nick meets Daisy and Tom again. This novel is filled with multiple themes but the predominate one focuses on the death of the American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald is stating that the true American Dream is dead and all that it left are distorted values such as greed and materialism. This concept can be explained by how Gatsby came to get his fortune. Gatsby got his fortune by any means possible, even by organized crime. The plot of these to books can never be related because one plot is more dramatic than the other. (The Great Gatsby is less dramatic). A Farewell to Arms is a book whose plot is about a young man seeking and fighting for his only, true love during World War I, while The Great Gatsby is a bout a young man around his 20 or 30s(Nick) that moves into New York looking for a job after getting his major in business bonds where he meets his neighbor who is a very mad man that gets money from very obscure places meaning he gets his money from organized crimes. He also lies about his familys background history and about his College years that he had gone to Oxford College where he earned many badges for many European C...
