Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan have lunch together. During the lunch Daisy and Gatsby are planning to tell Tom that she is going to leave him, but then Gatsby feels uncomfortable doing this in Tom's house. Then they go to Manhattan to do it. They all get a suite at the Plaza Hotel and Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy is in love with him. Tom tells everyone that Gatsby is probably a criminal and that's where all of his wealth comes from. Gatsby wants Daisy to leave Tom for good and tell him that she never loved him. Daisy can't do it because it wasn’t true and it ruins Gatsby. Her and Gatsby's relationship is done and she stays with Tom. That night, Daisy drives her and Gatsby home and runs over Myrtle by the Wilson gas station because she ran in front of the car thinking it was Tom. Tom tells George Wilson, the owner of the gas station, that the car belongs to Gatsby, and George concludes that Gatsby is Myrtle's lover as well.Gatsby takes the blame and waits for Daisy to change her mind and get back with him. Nick breaks up with Jordan because she doesn’t care about Myrtle's death.

Gatsby tells Nick more about himself. He was an officer in the army and he met and fell in love with Daisy, but after a month he had to fight in WWI.  Gatsby has been wanting to get back with Daisy since he shipped out to fight five years before but, two years later, when he was still fighting, she married Tom.The next day, George Wilson murders Gatsby and also kills himself.Nick tries to get people to come to Gatsby's funeral, but Gatsby’s “friends” didn’t want to go.Wolfshiem also didn’t want to go to the funeral. He explains to Nick that they have been partners in many illegal activities. Gatsby's father comes to the funeral and shows Nick a plan to improve himself that Gatsby had written for himself when he was younger. Nick then returns to his home in the Midwest.