In this section Wilson continues to talk about how God sees everything, while talking about God he is looking at the billboard for Dr. Eckleburg (who also “sees” everything). Michaelis assumes that Wilson sees the advertisement as a god or god-like figure and reassures him that it is just an advertisement. 42. I believe the figure moving towards Gatsby is Wilson. Wilson obviously thinks that Gatsby is the one who killed Myrtle, so he goes there to kill Gatsby. On the other hand it could be Daisy or some vision Gatsby has about what could have happened between him and Daisy. 43. In the last sentence of chapter eight Fitzgerald uses the word holocaust to describe the devastation and destruction caused by Gatsby's fall. From what happened with Wilson and his wife, I can imagine that Wilson tried to capture Gatsby, and now that the whole thing is finally complete, all the problems and tension have kind of gone out the window. 44. From what I understand, Ben Franklin planned to achieve moral perfection, when Meyer Wolfsheim talks about how Gatsby was and how he took him in and raised him from nothing to achieve the perfection that even Gatsby saw for himself even though a young
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