In F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby”, the character George Wilson shoots Gatsby dead. But who is really to blame for his demise? Daisy Buchanan is the real person to blame because she lead gatsby to believe she would leave Tom for him and because she should have admitted to her mistakes. Daisy Buchanan plays her share in the blame for Jay Gatsby’s death because of the way she treated Gatsby. Daisy leads Gatsby on by letting him think she was gonna leave her husband while they run away together “... she realized at last what she was doing - and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all” (132). Even though she loved Gatsby once she knew she could never leave Tom because Tom is old money. Gatsby spent his
This ended up being Gatsby through Toms purposeful misguiding. Tom directly caused Gatsby's murder by telling George it was he who hit his wife knowing he was not in a stable mindset and not truly knowing if it was him or daisy who was driving the car. Tom had a motive and after seeing he was losing control of both the primary women in his life and suspecting the affair between Gatspy and Daisy he knew he had to do something. Though Tom did not physically kill Gatsby, he talked to George knowing and wanting something bad to happen. Looking at the bigger picture though, gatsby's constant chasing of the American dream put him in the position he was in and led to his ultimate
Introduction: Thesis - Despite great attempts to be with the person they love, the main characters in Fitzgerald’s works often fall short of their goal because of their inability to fully transform. Main Categories Jay Gatsby’s attempts to win over Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby Horace Tarbox’s attempts to win over and support his wife, Marcia Meadow, in “Head and Shoulders” Sally Carrol’s attempts to live in an unfamiliar region of the country to be with her husband, Harry Bellamy, in “The Ice Palace” The downfalls of each character’s attempts to be with the person they love First Category - Jay Gatsby’s attempts to win over Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby moves to the West Egg, in hopes of seeing Daisy, who lives just across the bay.
The novel,The Great Gatsby, calls the character Jay Gatsby ‘Great’. As the story proceeds, Nick Carroway explains Gatsby as only wanting one thing, Nick’s cousin Daisy. Gatsby met his flame five years prior, and has since been away at war and Daisy has since gotten married. With Daisy marrying up to ‘Old Money’ Tom Buchanan, Gatsby must do everything in his power to impress Daisy. Gatsby deals in shady businesses in order to gain as much fortune and spend that fortune on his obsession.
“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die. ”- Maya Angelou. This quote shows that if love or respect is lost, then this can cause an actual death of a loved one or an important person. This is the main reason what caused Gatsby's death in the novel The Great Gatsby.
From reading the book The Great Gatsby, I have drawn the conclusion that Daisy is far from being a victim. Her actions have shown that she is an evil bitch. Within the first chapter, she is characterized as artificial and weak and as the book digs deeper into her characterization she is then proven to be selfish and careless as well. Nick Carraway, the narrator’s first visit with Daisy portrayed her as angelic with her sitting on an “ enormous couch . . . buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon . . .
Living in a mansion, with millions of dollars and friends, Sounds like a dream life to me. But in The Great Gatsby, James Gatz also referred to as “Gatsby”, regarded this life as the life of attracting his lover Daisy. He loved her when he was poor, He lied and left to build her dream life, then everything crashed when she came back years later. He thought of the ideal life as an attraction to win her all over again.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is only in love with Daisy. He believes that she is the only person he will ever love and that she will only ever love him. When Daisy reveals that she did love Tom at one point, Gatsby is bewildered that she loved someone other than him. He believes that you can only love one person for your whole life. I disagree with that statement.
Heaven or Hell Daisy may have been getting cheated on, but she was as innocent as she seemed. The Great Gatsby had many twists and turns. Jay loved Daisy so much that he was blind to the signs that she didn’t 100% feel the same way about him. I know for a fact that she loved him once upon a time but that was many years ago. I wish Jay could have opened his eyes sooner and seen that Daisy is a terrible person who uses people then leaves when time gets rough.
Why do people not always get what they deserve? Gatsby does not get what he should. Tom and Daisy also do not get what they deserve. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows how people do not always get what they deserve.
Even though it arguable that Daisy is responsible for gatsby she was the main reason gatsby was killed. Daisy was driving the car that hit Myrtle. After Myrtle was killed Nick ran into Gatsby and gatsby said "Daisy stepped on it. I tried to make her stop, but she couldn't, so I pulled the emergency brake"(Fitzgerald 144).
There may be many despicable characters in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but Daisy Buchanan is a main character that causes feuds between not only Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, Tom being her husband and Gatsby being the one she falls in love with, but Myrtle Wilson and George Wilson. Daisy is by far the most disappointing character in the book, because she leaves her child to be raised by nannies, which includes her having an affair, ends up killing someone without taking the blame, and she never shows up to Gatsby’s funeral. Daisy might have loved Tom at one point, but she really never wanted to marry him. When Gatsby comes into the picture, she instantly is overwhelmed with Gatsby’s devotions towards her.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, characters have very distinct identities that develop throughout the book and many inferences are needed to understand the characters. One example of this is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan cares greatly about wealth and is a very careless person. Throughout the novel, many of her decisions are due to her greed and carelessness, even though those decisions may not be the best decisions for her. Daisy displays her greed throughout the novel; she marries Tom Buchanan because of his wealth.
In my opinion, Tom is most responsible for Gatsby’s death. I believe that Tom is most responsible because Tom forgot to tell George that Daisy was the driver of Gatsby’s car the night Myrtle was hit by it. Tom forgot to tell George that because him and Daisy were plotting this out. I could tell something was up when Nick refers that “Tom and Daisy talking in the house(146). I also think that Daisy is a little bit responsible because she took on some bad morals when she hit Myrtle because she could have stopped the car after she hit Myrtle.
In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are many characters in which each symbolizes their own life lesson and message. The book's main character Jay Gatsby, loves to simulate and relive the past. Gatsby is a nostalgic character who throughout the story has a moral ambiguity with his obsession with trying to prove that he can recreate past triumphs, believing that the past held everything that was great about his life, but it’s impossible to re-spark past emotions and memories. Nothing can be as it once was, people grow each day. Each new day a person has a new outlook on life, they have new feelings, emotions, and opinions.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby was murdered by George Wilson Husband of Myrtle. In the court of law there’s only one person who was responsible and guilty for the murder of Jay Gatsby. Although in the eyes of god there was more than one person responsible for the murder or had the ability to stop the outcome of the murder. Weather it was Tom being honest about his affair, Daisy doing the right thing and stopping during the accident or Jay Gatsby himself by taking control of the situation and doing what was good for both Daisy and himself instead of just what 's best for Daisy. Tom, Myrtle, Daisy, and Gatsby were selfish and self centered leading them to become Morally responsible for the death of Jay Gatsby.