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Donne's Compass at the Death Scene in Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY

The language here is richly suggestive. The word “accidental” recalls the automobile accidents in the novel—in part, Gatsby is a victim of such an accident—and the apparent arbitrariness of human life (to which Gatsby’s love for Daisy has failed, for the reader at least, to add any meaning). Nick Carraway seems to share this awareness when he says that during his all-night vigil at the Buchanan house Gatsby is “watching over nothing” (116). In the above passage, existential meaninglessness is symbolized by the circular and repetitive movement of objects created by the wind. The passage also evokes, however, an image of positive significance. The comparison of the mattress to “the leg of a transit” as it traces “a thin red circle in the water” alludes, with some poignancy, to one of the best-known poems in English, John Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.”1 F. Scott Fitzgerald originally used the word “transept” instead of “transit.” When editor Max Perkins questioned the word choice, Fitzgerald replied in an