Before You Read: Target Vocabulary
Essential words to understand this chapter easily.
grief
/ɡriːf/Great sadness caused by someone's death or a major loss.
associate
/əˈsəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/A partner or colleague in business or work.
destined
/ˈdes.tɪnd/Certain to do something or have a particular fate in the future.
disgusted
/dɪsˈɡʌs.tɪd/Feeling extreme disapproval or strong dislike toward something offensive.
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After Gatsby died, his house was filled with police, photographers, and eager newspaper reporters. Most of the stories they published were wild and untrue. Catherine, Myrtle's sister, showed surprising courage and swore to the police that Myrtle had never known Gatsby. Because of this, Wilson was simply called a madman driven crazy by grief, and the investigation quietly ended. Yet I found myself completely alone on Gatsby's side. No one else seemed to care. Half an hour after we found him, I called Daisy, but she and Tom had already packed their bags and left without giving any forwarding address....
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