The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 (162).

So… I was a little confused here, especially when Fitzgerald says holocaust. I know he means death, but who died exactly? From the way I read it at first, it seemed to me that Wilson killed himself because of the death of his wife. Why was he at Gatsby’s house to commit suicide? Then, I realized that he did not want to kill himself but avenge his wife. He killed Gatsby because of Myrtle. His death completed the holocaust. Gatsby and Myrtle interest me; they died because of love. Myrtle died trying to get Tom’s attention when she thought he was driving the car. Gatsby died because of her death. That is one heck of a day.