Dreams of a Kitten by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Dreams of a Kitten

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protect her. Stevie urges Gatsby to flee to avoid prosecution,

but he refuses. After Tom tells George that Gatsby owns the car

that struck Myrtle, a distraught George assumes the owner of the

vehicle must be Myrtle's lover. George fatally shoots Gatsby in

his mansion's swimming pool, then kills himself.

Several days after Gatsby's murder, his father Henry Gatz, a

racketeer, arrives for the sparsely attended funeral. After

Gatsby's death, Stevie comes to hate New York and decides that

Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and he were all Midwesterners unsuited to

Eastern life. Stevie encounters Tom and initially refuses to

shake his hand. Tom admits he was the one who told George that

Gatsby owned the vehicle that killed Myrtle. Before returning to

the Midwest, Stevie returns to Gatsby's mansion and stares

across the bay at the green light emanating from the end of

Daisy's dock. Stevie says; “Gatsby was the best of them all.”

When Stevie woke up, he stretched, yawned, and stared out the

window. From that day on, Stevie carried the lessons of this

dream with him, ready to face any adventure with confidence and

love.

Beyond the Sea

Bobby Darin