Jay Gatsby Death Analysis

Mr. Jay Gatsby meets his Maker

“Death doesn’t discriminate, between the sinners and the saints,” and neither does it discriminate between the rich and the poor. In a novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, set in the Roaring twenties when the difference between the lowest and highest class was enormous, death finds the main character, Jay Gatsby, in the form of a bullet. The most obvious choice when looking for the person responsible for Gatsby’s murder is Mr. George Wilson, who pulled the trigger aimed at his chest, however, after further inspection, he is not the only one who shoulders the guilt of Gatsby’s death; the others who contributed, though not with a gun but words and inactions, were Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby himself.

To begin with, Daisy Buchanan holds the biggest part in Gatsby’s death, even though she was not the one who pulled the trigger, her lack of ethos, her love for money, not to mention the fact she killed Wilson’s wife, Myrtle, predestined the murder that took place in the novel. One of the strongest motives of the novel was achieving the great American dream, and Mr. Gatsby was no exception. However, his dream differs from the society in the aspect that he does not crave money, but the love of Daisy

When he is approached by maddened Wilson looking for the owner of the car that killed his wife, he points him in the direction of Gatsby’s house, even though he knows that Daisy was the driver. One can see it in this passage: “Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table, with a plate of cold fried chicken between them, and two bottles of ale. He was talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement.” and it is later confirmed when Tom and Daisy disappear