These people died for no reason aside for their religious beliefs; they were by all means innocent.
Has anyone considered that in order for it to be a holocaust, the victims must have something in common other than death? If he hadn't been cheating with Myrtle, Daisy would have never gone to Gatsby, and if Tom hadn't told Wilson about the car, Gatsby wouldn't be dead.I think that the word "holocaust" is one word used to describe the entire novel. In chapter eighty it refers to the many lives destroyed after the truths came out.
When Nick states that “the holocaust was complete” (122), he is referring to the sacrifice of Gatsby, and the death of Wilson.Amanna I agree. Also, I see Tom as the reason for all of these incidents.
I also think that he uses the word to explain that all the people that died were innocent and didn’t deserve to die. Chapter eight is a chapter filled with surprises and shocks.
Well if you think about how many people Gatsby had at his parties, you then start to think about how many people this is emotionally killing. This seems kind of like Nick’s way to try and justify the happenings of that situation.Nick refers to the entire incident of the story as a holocaust because they were deaths of people that didn’t necessarily deserve them. These were the characters' downfalls; everything that had been worked up to be great in the beginning began to fall downwards and thus, their death or the "holocaust". Although there is nothing about the motivation behind the killings it still kind of makes the reader sympathize for the deaths. They were killing whoever was in their path and didn't think twice about it. He was not even driving the car that killed Myrtle, but he still took the fall for Dasiy, only because it was his car that was seen. I think the word greatly summarizes the events because Gatsby died as an innocent man. Just as Tom deliberately cheats on Daisy, and destroys the marriage of Mr.Wilson, Gatsby is trying to do the same thing to Tom by taking Daisy away. She was killed by getting run over by a car and the wreck was so bad that it ripped her chest open.I find it interesting that Fitzgerald uses the word holocaust. Although he did some things that were not so great, he did many good things. Tom portrays a person with terrible morals, like a nazi, running around with women, and treating Daisy with no respect. It shows a loss of morality because of the senseless killings of a man who wanted nothing else, but Daisy's love.Write something about yourself. Gatsby touched the lives of many sometimes directly, and other times indirectly. There’s an elegiac tone to half of the story in Chapter 8, as Nick tells us about Gatsby giving up on his dreams of Daisy and reminiscing about his time with her five years before. The use of the word holocaust in this instance is that it's the ending of love and cheating. He could carry his love for Daisy around with him, knowing full well that she was unobtainable. Even though Gatsby did not willingly die, he took blame for killing someone else knowing that there would be consequences. The book was written in 1925 and this was before the holocaust in WWII. No one showed up to his funeral because people did not appreciate him for his character, they liked him for his wealth, except Nick.I think that Nick used the term holocaust to describe the events happening in chapter 8 to relate it to the murders of the innocent people who lost their lives over unjust causes during the war. He phones Gatsby and, unable to reach him, decides to head home early. But I do believe that the reason that it is compared to it so heavily is because of the idea that not everyone who looses something at the end of this story necessarily deserves what they lost.
The Great Gatsby - Chapter 8 … The holocaust was a very tragic and awful event in history, and I think this kind of just connects to all that is going on right now, the cheating, the death of myrtle and that no one is confessing. That's why this death is such a holocaust. I believe Nick uses the term "holocaust" to emphasize the violent deaths of the characters. And I also saw the death of the characters as such an unexpected tragedy of the killing of multiple character's, just like the actual Holocaust was the killing of many innocent lives. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.
Usually when someone thinks of the Holocaust, the massacre of hundreds of innocent lives that took place during WWII comes to mind. The focusof his narrative then shifts to relate to the reader what happenedat the garage after Myrtle was killed (the details of which Nicklearns from Michaelis): George Wilson stays up all night talkingto Michaelis about Myrtle. *especially Daisy due to how she has grown so fond of their love latelyI very much agree with you Jesse. Note also that these characters took the fall for the things they didn't do. Daisy and Tom partially are at fault for causing the completion of the Holocaust. No more parties, no more cheating, no more wealth, and no more hope for finding love.Nick uses the term Holocaust, any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life, at the of chapter 8 to point to the reckless deaths of Myrtle and Gatsby. I viewed Nick's reasonaing behind using the word "holocaust" was to portray the innocence of the deaths.