Who Is Responsible For Gatsby's Death

In the book The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby loses his life to Wilson. Mr. Gatsby is killed because Tom Buchanan told Wilson that Gatsby was the one driving the car when Myrtle his wife was struck by the car. It was Gatsby’s, but he wasn’t the one driving, the one driving was Daisy. Wilson believes that Gatsby is the one who hit his wife with the car. George may have killed Gatsby, but the other characters had their part in his death.

Irresponsibility is a theme prevalent throughout the novel seen in characters like Owl Eyes, Jordan, and Daisy; their actions surrounding car accidents and conversations with other characters provide evidence that Fitzgerald desired to convey the irresponsibility of the upper class. At the first party, Nick attends there is an accident as guests begin to leave, and he realizes Owl Eyes was the driver. Owl Eyes makes excuses for his actions and says, “‘Don’t ask me...I know very little about driving - next to nothing” (Fitzgerald 54) while others try to explain to him that the wheel came off and he cannot simply drive away. The topic of driving appears again in a conversation between Nick and Jordan where she states, “‘It take two to make an accident’” (Fitzgerald 58); Nick accuses her of poor driving, but she believes her actions are irrelevant as long as she does not meet someone like herself. Finally, the

Nick put it best when he said, ¨ They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” There were many people to blame for the tragic ending of The Great Gatsby but the one who had possibly some of the most responsibility is Daisy. Daisy’s materialistic attitude and her ditziness and her dishonesty toward Gatsby and Tom contributed immensely to the outcome of the book. Her irresponsible and childish behavior indeed led to the great tragedy of The Great Gatsby.

Who is responsible for killing Jay Gatsby? Was it Tom? Daisy? George? Was it just

The Great Gatsby, like the Great Houdini, is an illusionist. Similar to the Great Houdini, the Great Gatsby has a tremendous rise to fame and an outrageous reputation. Jay Gatsby's tragic flaw does not seem horrendous at first when compared to Willy Loman, Macbeth, and other tragic characters in literature, but his love for Daisy shows that the power of love outranks all other flaws. During Gatsby's youth, he met a girl named Daisy, who he immediately fell for. Unfortunately, he had to leave Daisy to go to war. After the war, he was determined to find Daisy but five years later, his feelings are not reciprocated; Daisy toys with him, uses Gatsby to make her husband jealous, and allows Gatsby to take the blame for the murder of her husband’s mistress. The most tragic of the three protagonists studied is Jay Gatsby because he demoralizes himself in a futile attempt at expired love, he has few genuine companions, and he cannot let go of the past.

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates a morally ambiguous character that can’t be defined as strictly good or evil. Moral ambiguity is the driving force towards Gatsby’s actions. The character Gatsby demonstrates morally ambiguous qualities that initiate plot throughout the whole novel.

I definitely did not expect Gatsby to be blamed for Myrtle's murder, let alone for the murder itself to occur. What I expected for Gatsby was for him to run off into the sunset with Daisy. But in the end maybe it was for the best that Gatsby was taken out of the situation he was in. If the murder would have gone to trial, Gatsby still would have taken the fall for Daisy. She was an obsession for him, he probably would have never moved on with his life without her. In Tom and Daisy's three-year-long marriage, they knew what to expect from one another. Tom was presumed to cheat on Daisy with many women and still have an entitled personality while Daisy was to be meek and nonchalant about his infidelities. Although, there was previously tension

Daisy was morally responsible for Gatsby's death because of her willingness to have an affair with him knowing she was married, and also for allowing Gatsby to take the blame for Myrtle's death. She also caused problems between tom and Gatsby. Daisy did not have morals and could be considered manipulative. Daisy should also have been held responsible for Gatsby's death even though George shot him to death. Daisy could have been honest and told everyone the truth that she ran over and killed Myrtle. Tom could have prevented Gatsby's death by not telling George Wilson that Gatsby had killed Myrtle even thought he knew it was Daisy who had actually killed her. Jay Gatsby, can also be partly held responsible for his own death because of his

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.

Literary deaths always have a meaning, and the abrupt demise of various characters in The Great Gatsby is no exception. As tensions build and secret loves are proclaimed, characters begin to meet untimely deaths. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby and Wilson's deaths, along with Gatsby's funeral, to symbolize the death of the American dream. Both men simply want to be successful and happy, and neither of them achieve their ultimate dreams.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby (James Gatz) dies at the end. George is the one who pulls the trigger, but who aimed the gun at him? Could it have been been Daisy Buchanan, who was Gatsby’s only love, who she is having an affair with? OR could it have been Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, who finds out about Daisy’s affair with Gatsby? Who knows, it could 've been Gatsby himself? Who met Daisy before he became rich and moved across the river from her and Tom. The person who is most responsible for Gatsby’s death is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is selfish, who only thinks about herself, and hurts other people without even thinking about it.

In the novel, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author illustrates the corruption within each character through their relationships with each other and through the eyes of Nick Carraway. Daisy Buchanan is one character with flaws, she is arrogant, she loves extravagance, she loves rich men, but most of all she loves her status and she will do anything to keep it.

At first glance, Gatsby appears to be the one to blame for the deaths of himself and the Wilsons. However, analyzing what caused Gatsby to try and repeat the past with Daisy, it becomes apparent that alcohol and the American Dream are truly to blame. The corrupted ideals and strong influence of alcohol on the American society proves to have dire consequences.

The fact that Fitzgerald ends the whole story with this profound quote makes it one of the main theme or moral of the story: despite efforts to move forward from the past, it is difficult and almost impossible for one to pass the past. One example would be Gatsby. He

Once upon a time, there was a young man named Nick Carraway. Nick moved from his old home in Minnesota to the West Egg in Long Island, New York. He lived next to a very mysterious man named Gatsby who lived in the most beautiful house on the Egg. Nick