Blogpost 22
I feel like there a few different climaxes in the book. I think there are many turning points in chapters 7 and 8. The few I found were when Tom confronts Gatsby, when Myrtle gets hit by the car, and when Gatsby dies. I think then when Myrtle gets hit by the car and when Tom confronts Gatsby are the places in the story when things start to shift. Everything begins to go downhill in Gatsby's life. Of course when he dies, that is a change for everything else, but for Gatsby, I think the other two are very important. I think those two chapters really redirected the book and changed the storyline, making them the climaxes.
Gatsby's death is part of the resolution of the novel, so consider the other two options you have presented. In which instance does the central conflict get addressed. In fact, what is the central conflict?
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