The Climax of The Great Gatsby

          The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is often considered the "great american novel," so of course, this book has a great climax as well. The climax of a book is the turning point of the story, and I believe that the turning point of this story is when Gatsby finally tells Tom that he and Daisy are in love with each other, and he and Tom have a big fight. I think that part of the story was leading up to this point, because eventually Tom had to find out that Daisy loved somebody else. This was also, in part, where Gatsby's dream is realized: first he wanted Daisy to love hime, and now he wants everyone to know it. Also, after this point in the story, the book begins to move very quickly towards the end, causing a sort of chain reaction where Daisy and Gatsby drive home very fast because she needed to get away from Tom, and they hit Myrtle Wilson and don't stop. After that, George Wilson finds out who's car it is, and goes to the Buchanan house, and then Tom tells him it was Gatsby, and then he goes and shoots Gatsby. All these events coming from the climax very quickly bring the story to a close.