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The Rising Action & Conflict of The Great Gatsby
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The Rising Action of
The Great Gatsby
Rising Action(s)
- Nick sets up a meeting for Gatsby and Daisy, and their relationship begins anew.
"'Beat me!' he heard her cry. 'Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!'
A moment later she rushed into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting--before he could move from his door the business was over." Ch. 7, pg 137
- Tom soon finds out about their new affair, and confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
- On his way back home, Gatsby's car hits and kills Myrtle Wilson.
"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." Ch. 8, pg. 162
- When Tom finds out about this, he tells Myrtle's husband, George, who finds and kills Gatsby, then himself.
Conflicts
Inciting Incidents
- Jay Gatsby vs. Tom Buchanan
- Nick attends one of Gatsby's parties, and meets him for lunch the next day.
- Man vs. Man (External)
"[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever." Ch. 8, pg. 153
- Jay Gatsby vs. His own feelings
- Man vs. Himself (Internal)
- At this lunch, Gatsby explains to Nick his past, especially his relationship with Daisy before he went to WWII.
- Jay Gatsby vs. His social status
- Man vs. Social Class
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