Great Gatsby-- Finished!

The first thing I'm going to say right now is that if you haven't yet finished the book, don't read this. I happened to have nothing else to do during study hall today, and decided to finish it. Anyway I was quite surprised by what happened in the end of the book.

When Myrtle Wilson gets hit by the yellow car, I knew right away that it was Gatsby's car that hit her. I figured he hit her on purpose because he was mad at Tom for saying that Daisy never loved Gatsby and she loved him, etc. However, what I didn't guess was that the person driving the car wasn't actually Gatsby, it was Daisy herself. Well then after reading that, my first reaction was that maybe Daisy had done it on purpose so that Tom wouldn't cheat on her anymore. But then I realized that probably wasn't the case, because Tom would cheat on her anyway. Not to mention, it wouldn't be fair of Daisy to get mad at Tom for cheating when she herself had been canoodling with Gatsby recently. Anyway, then as I read further I learned that Daisy hadn't meant to hit Myrtle. Myrtle had seen Tom driving the car earlier in the day, and so when she saw the car again she immediately assumed that it was Tom driving. She ran out into the road to talk to Tom, and was hit by Daisy.

The next few pages go on to talk about how crazy Mr. Wilson was going because of the fact that his wife was dead; basically his friends and neighbors stayed with him so that he wouldn't do anything crazy. Clearly they weren't too successful though, because he ran away and ended up at Gatsby's house. This is the part in the story where I got very confused. The book says that Gatsby and Nick and the butlers saw Mr. Wilson's body laying on the ground. It also says the Gatsby told Nick to talk to Meyer Wolfsheim (however you spell that) because he didn't want to be alone at a time like this. So what I though was that Mr. Wilson had come to Gatsby's house to kill him, but then Gatsby ended up killing Mr. Wilson. Well then to throw another loop into the story, Gatsby's dad shows up to attend his son's funeral. WHAT?! Needless to say, I was quite confused. Here I had been thinking that Mr. Wilson was dead because Nick talks about seeing his body on the lawn and talking to Gatsby in the days following. But then Gatsby's dad comes to his house to attend the funeral, and Nick starts calling Gatsby's friends and inviting them to the funeral. So what is it? Who died? I'm pretty certain at this point that Gatsby did die, but did Mr. Wilson also die? This has me so incredibly annoyed. Did Mr. Wilson shoot Gatsby and then shoot himself, thus the reason why Nick saw Wilson's body? But then if Gatsby is dead, why was Nick talking to him if he was dead? Not to mention, I found it a little humorous that no one showed up to Gatsby's funeral except for Nick, Gatsby's dad, the butlers, and the "owl-eyed man." Clearly something was messed up with Gatsby since no one showed up to his funeral.

Despite the fact that the end of the book left me very confused and slightly pissed off, I enjoyed the book overall. It was very descriptive, and I think it would be impossible not to find the writing in the book exceptional.