Fitzgerald Showing Gatsby’s Future

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s words can be perceived in many different ways. Though out chapters 7 and 8 there is a sense of loneliness and grief, which is foreshadowing Gatsby’s death.
In chapter 7 Nick has sudden attack of loneliness and isolation, he talks about that day is his thirtieth birthday while Jordan is collecting the thing to leave. Then they reflect on what just happened by, “the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.... So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight”(The Great Gatsby, pg 143). Nick has this feeling that there is n...