t line was that of obvious sequence manipulation. An example of this was when they decided to go to town in chapter seven. Tom, Nick, and Jordan go in Gatsby’s car, and Gatsby and Daisy go in Tom’s. Then on their return they have the same car arrangements. This was very unusual particularly with the circumstances surrounding Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy’s conversation in the hotel room. In a real life situation there would be no way that Tom would have let his wife ride home with the man she was having an affair with. This unrealistic action was performed to put the characters in the right position needed for the confusion of the car accident involving Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan’s mistress. Not to mention that it so happened that Daisy was supposedly driving even though she was severely shaken up by the hotel incident. “She thought it would steady her to drive...”(151); driving is the last thing somebody should do if they are emotionally traumatized.A similar instance of sequence manipulation has to do with the unusual coincidental nature of certain scenes relation to timing. “A moment later [Myrtle] rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting...”(144), this whole scenario of her being able to recognize a speeding car from inside a garage when it was starting to get dark was quite a bit unbelievable. Also, the fact that after recognizing the car she had enough time to run out into the road at exactly the same moment the car was driving by. This incident was seemingly without a great deal of thought. It was a haphazard way of getting the “job” done. All of the previous flaws can be overlooked for one reason or another, but the largest flaw of all was witnessed in chapter eight and can in no way be ignored. The entire novel, up to this point, was in a first person perspective from Nick Carraway’s point of view. This changed, however, when the story centere...
