Chapter Summary
In Chapter eight, Nick Carraway, perturbed by the terrible events of the day, hurried to Gatsby's mansion to convince him to leave Long Island to avoid the emotional impact of Myrtle's death but Gatsby refused to take this advice, not wishing to leave Daisy alone; he then told Nick about his and Daisy’s first meeting and their relationship in Louisville. He then decided to swim in the pool before it was drained. At the same time, in the Valley of Ashes, George Wilson was proclaiming to Michaelis that Myrtle's death was not as simple as a car accident, since he had concluded that the driver of the yellow car that killed her must have been her lover, whom he decided to punish. Thus George shot Gatsby, whom Nick later discovered floating in the pool, with Wilson, who shot himself, dead on the grass.