This is rather ironic and sad actually. Myrtle, Tom's previous lover, was killed by the person that Tom was cheating on. To be honest, I feel like Fitzgerald tried while writing The Great Gatsby to show that karma is a....not good thing. I have no idea whether he was just playing this as part of the story or as an actual lesson people can take away but he associated it multiple times in the novel. When Daisy cheated on Tom, the one she was cheating with, Gatsby, is now going to spend the rest of his life in prison for taking the blame for killing that woman. I feel like the techniques that Fitzgerald uses to relate parts in the story really completes and rounds off the novel. It create a much better plot because we can actually look back to previous points and understand why it all makes sense now. We also see something sort of like a revelation and reconciliation between Daisy and Tom. In the end we see them talking over some chicken and holding hands. I feel like Daisy really did love Tom and shes realizing that she should be with him, not Jay. Tom takes on a new side as well. I feel like that's because he realizes how close he has come to losing everything that he has and realizes that he needs to actually work to keep what he now holds so dear. "A change had come over him.( Fitzgerald, 141)"
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