Oh Sweet Irony

Personally I have never seen a more obvious example of irony than in the later parts of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.  There are several accounts of irony that occur at the same time at the end.  The most notable of the ironies is the killing of Mrs. Wilson.  Being the mistress of Tom, Mrs. Wilson gets killed by Tom's wife, Daisy.  Another intersecting irony in the story was the meeting between Tom and Wilson.  "[Wilson] had discovered Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick.  I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before," (Fitzgerald, 124).  Is is ironic in the respect that Wilson is meeting the man his wife is cheating on him with as well as the fact that Tom is becoming extremely angry over a sin that he has committed against his wife rather frequently.  The penultimate irony comes in the form of Daisy providing Gatsby with a soul reason to keep going in life, shaping several major decisions.  Daisy would fittingly become the eventual reason Gatsby loses his life.  Fitzgerald uses irony to draw the reader in as the actions of the characters seem to be poetic justice to one another.