The Great Gatsby Unethical Quotes

Do people ever know who people really are? “Who Gatsby, I heard he was a German spy during the war, from a man who knew all about him and grew up with him in Germany” (Fitzgerald 44). In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book there are many stories about Gatsby but later in the book we find out the truth that he came from a poor family, but ended up getting rich through unethical tasks to try and reconnect with Daisy. Gatsby had also been in the war with Nick Carraway although they didn’t know each other back then they became friends when reunited. Before Gatsby went to war he and Daisy were a couple, when he went off to war they had written each other letters but hadn’t seen each other in five years. Five years later Gatsby is living in West egg by Nick who happens to be a cousin of Daisy. Daisy Buchanan is married to Tom Buchanan, they live in East egg together and have a three year old daughter. In the beginning Daisy and Tom were both bored with their marriage, towards the end they start to reconnect, leaving Gatsby to stay as he had always been... Alone.

Nick sees Tom for the first time after Gatsby’s death, Tom justifies telling wilson it was Gatsby that killed Myrtle. “ He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car” Tom said but Nick knew different. “ There was nothing I could say, except one utterable fact that it wasn’t true” (Fitzgerald 178) Nick said to himself. He knew the one secret Gatsby had taken to his grave, that Daisy had been the one driving the night Myrtle was hit. Daisy killed Myrtle, and she hadn’t told her husband. She could have prevented Gatsby from getting killed if she had just come out and told her husband everything that had happened. But she wanted to save her marriage and just get away from all that had