the Fabulous Gatsby part 2

But as I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over. Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new couple which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.

This deals with the theme of Reality vs. Illusion. The entire party of Gatsby's was this big giant party that just seemed absolutely perfect, but then the second after some of the people leave the party they get into a car accident which brings reality crashing down. It shows how closely entertwined reality and illusion are in the book. In much of the book, you wonder if what is happening is real, you never know which is an illusion and which is reality. When something so awful happens right after a fabulous event, I wonder if the party was actually as great as it seemed. Is Gatsby's house as fabulous as it seems? At sometimes it is extravegent and amazing but at other times in the book it is described as dark and dusty. How does some beautiful party turn into a awful, violent car crash? Another section that this part of the novel points out is the symbolism of cars. Most of the time cars seem to cause bad things to happen or cause reality to come back. This car crash shows how bad things in life do happen and it isn't all just some party. But cars in other parts also cause death, like the death of Myrtle, which a car like this car in this section was also in the section where Myrtle dies. But the Death of Myrtle made her husband realize that not everything between his wife and him was all wonderful as he thought, as his illusion, made it seem. Tom also got into a car accident and in that car accident, a chambermaid was in the same car with him, which made Daisy realize that her life wasn't all perfect and "white" as she thought it was. Cars throughout the story cause the reality of life to come and ruin many illusions of peoples lifes in the story. It could be taken as a good thing, people knowing the truth, but many people in the story seem to prefer ignorance.