The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald (pg 143-153)

After there time in town Tom, Jordan and Nick headed home.  Gatsby and Daisy had left earlier after Gatsby’s and Tom’s argument.  On the journey home they top at the gas station because there is a commotion going on.  They discover that Tom’s mistress is dead. She was hit by a car.  “‘Auto hit her. Ins’antly killed’” (Fitzgerald 146).  This was a statement made by the policeman on the seen to Tom.  Fitzgerald’s word choice and misspellings give the police man a redneck kind of ascent.  In one day Tom started to lose both his women and then loses one completely.  Latter you discover that daisy was driving the car that killed Tom’s mistress.  This course of events leads me to think that Gatsby may get blamed for that accident by Tom as a way for him to regain control of daisy.