| It was then that her shaggy Irish wolfhound, Gatsby, padded over and butted her hand. |
| Myrtle was instantly killed, but Daisy kept going before she past out and Gatsby was forced to take the wheel and drive home. |
| As a means of fixing the fundamental problem of adapting Gatsby, the conceit does a serviceable job of correcting a deficit. |
| The characters' search of their own identities and the struggle that ensues is the most suffusive theme throughout The Great Gatsby. |
| The first mention of Gatsby triggers Daisy's memories of her former lover, generating a recurrent and intriguingly varied orchestral motif. |
| I was in a line of folks standing behind a woman at the bookstore who was throwing a fit because the clerk could not find the copy of The Great Gatsby she'd called to reserve. |
