Who Is Responsible For Gatsby's Death

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by the author F. Scotts Fitzgerald in 1925. But the story is based in 1922 this book is mainly about a man named Jay Gatsby. His life story is told to us by a man named Nick Carraway. Nick rents a small house right next to Jay Gatsby’s. It’s located in the West Egg area of Long Island New York. Carraway soon comes to find out that Gatsby is a very mysterious man that is known for throwing the most extravagant parties. He then reconnects with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom Buchanan. They introduce Nick to Daisy's best friend Jordan Baker. Baker proceeds to tell him more about Buchanan’s marriage, and how he is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Later on, in the book Nick Carraway

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses numerous allusions in its story. The Great Gatsby is a novel that takes place in the summer of 1922, in New York City. It tells of a very wealthy Jay Gatsby, who’s believed to have earned his money in dishonest or illegal ways, and his endeavors to court Daisy Buchannon. Daisy is the wife a another very wealthy Tom Buchannon, and he gets in touch with her through Nick Carraway, a middleclass neighbor who narrates the story. There are many significant and clever allusions and representations in Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby.

In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby spent years trying to achieve his dream, but he made a bad decision and lost his chance. Gatsby met Daisy a couple years before (Fitzgerald 74). He would hide his social class from her because he was afraid she wouldn’t like him. He never forgot her, even when he went to fight in the war. He has been formulating a plan to get Daisy back. He comes back and got a house across the lake from Daisy, hoping to be with her some day. He did a lot of bad business to get all of his wealth, but the money wasn’t enough. He wanted to be with Daisy. He eventually gets to meet up with Daisy because of Nick’s help, and Gatsby gets closer to being able to live a life with Daisy. One day, everyone (Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan) is in town, renting a hotel room to deal with the heat. Tom figures out that Daisy and Gatsby have something going on. Tom gets mad and everyone starts to head home. On the way back, Gatsby lets Daisy drive his car, which was his bad decision (Fitzgerald 143). Daisy hits Myrtle,

was him who ran over Myrtle, so Daisy would not get in trouble. This leads to Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson, killing Gatsby because Wilson believed Gatsby killed Myrtle. Gatsby’s death is the ultimate representation of the failure of the American dream. Although hundreds of people would come to Gatsby’s parties, nobody came to his funeral. Nick explains that, “At first I was surprised and confused; then as [Gatsby] lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested...” (Fitzgerald ch. 9). Daisy not showing up at Gatsby’s funeral, having no guilt about killing

It was learnt that Wilson had asked someone in West Egg on how to get to Gatsby’s house. This just increases the suspicion that Wilson deliberately killed Gatsby. But WHY??

In doing so she was responsible for killing Gatsby indirectly. When Gatsby reached for the wheel to avoid hitting Myrtle he was too late and he told Nick “it must have killed her instantly”(Fitzgerald 144). This quote says not only did Gatsby not hit her he tried to steer the car so it would not hit Myrtle but was too late. Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car and struck Myrtle killing her on impact without ever stopping or slowing down. Because Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car Tom had told Myrtle’s husband George that Gatsby was the one who had hit her. Daisy was aware that Tom had told George that and she never told anybody the truth of what happened. When Nick asked Gatsby if Daisy was driving he said “Yes but of course I’ll say I was”(Fitzgerald 143). Gatsby took the blame for Daisy because Daisy was too worried about herself getting in trouble. In order to get his revenge George sneaks up to Gatsby while he is swimming and he shoots and kills him. He then turns the gun and shoots himself after saying that “God sees everything”(Fitzgerald 160). It can be argued that Daisy is also responsible for the death of George too but there is almost no doubt that she was the reason Gatsby was killed. Daisy could have saved Gatsby if she had come out with the truth and George may have not been able to kill Daisy if he .went after her. Even if George did go after her she was the one who had

Daisy is responsible for Myrtle's death because she was still nervous from the incident that happened in New York between Tom and Gatsby. She was so nervous that she wasn’t in the best shape to be driving and was driving fast when myrtle ran into the street that she couldn’t stop. Daisy is responsible for Gatsby’s death because she was driving Gatsby’s car when she ran over Myrtle and didn’t stop. People automatically think the owner of the car was driving so then George goes looking for the owner of the yellow car and finds out it’s Gatsby's. George then goes to Gatsby's house and shoots him by his pool killing him on the spot.

Secondly, Gatsby was responsible for his own death. He, in a sense, killed himself. Ever since he met Daisy in Louisville, he has been obsessed over the fact that they might be together again one day. Anything and everything he did was for Daisy; all his fancy parties, all his wealth, even his home – set just across the bay from her. She is the reason for his transformation from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. After reuniting with Daisy, Gatsby believed her finally had her in his grasp forever. He even stopped holding his lavish parties, as they were no longer needed to grab her attention. However, after the big argument at the hotel suite, Gatsby learns that despite Daisy’s love for him, she will always love Tom. “’Even alone I can't say I never love Tom.’ She admitted in a pitiful voice. ‘It wouldn't be true’”(142). This is when a part of Gatsby dies, when he sees one of the only people he has ever loved go with someone else. Even after that, he takes the blame from

In the beginning of the novel Daisy’s awareness that Tom has a mistress in New York is revealed, although her identity is unknown. Later in the story after Daisy admits she’s been seeing Gatsby to Tom, Gatsby and Daisy are driving home with each other. On their way back to Daisy’s house, Daisy, being the driver, hits Myrtle and kills her. Although this was an accident, Daisy does not stop the car to tend the victim. Not only does Daisy kill Myrtle, she also drives away from the scene immediately with no hesitation. A quote from Gatsby reads "Yes," he said after a moment, "but of course I'll say I was…..Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back. The second my hand reached the wheel I felt the shock – it must have killed her instantly."(Fitzgerald 143). This quote from Gatsby shows that he cares more about Daisy killing Myrtle than the actual death of Myrtle. Daisy is also letting Gatsby take the blame for the accident and not owning up to her own actions. Another example of this is “I thought so; I told Daisy I thought so. It’s better the shock came all at once. She stood it pretty well.”(Fitzgerald 143). Again all Gatsby is concerned about is Daisy and I know that's all Daisy is concerned about as well. A quote from Tom Buchanan states“I told him the truth,”he said. “He came to the door while we were getting

Jay Gatsby lies dead, sprawled across the floatie in his pool. But whose fault is it when the question question of responsibility comes up? At the end of the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, formerly known as James Gatz, is murdered. George Wilson is the gunman who took Gatsby's and his own life at the end of the story. However, is Wilson really to blame for Gatsby's death? With many people in the story who affect his life and his decisions, there is greater texture to the original question then noticed at first. There are many elements that contribute to the murder of Gatsby. It is clear that someone other than Mr. Wilson bears greater responsibility for this crime. Daisy Buchanan,

On their way home from stopping in town for that day, Daisy had asked Gatsby if it was okay if she could drive his bright yellow car back home. Of course Gatsby insisted. On their drive back Myrtle ran out into the street and Daisy struck her, resulting in her death. Gatsby is obsessive over Daisy and will sacrifice anything to keep her safe, including his own life. If he would have gone with the truth and not taken the blame for the accident, he would have still been alive, having a better chance at getting his dream.

The Great Gatsby was written in the year 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald after a shocking event happened not long ago, the World War I. In the novel, the main character Jay Gatsby who was around thirty years old worked his to from a impoverished childhood to one of the richest people in New York City and well known in Wall Street. The book tells us a story of the love between Gatsby and a woman, who is a cousin of Nick Carraway, Daisy. However, the theme of the novel is clearly not about romantic between two individuals but a much larger, non romantic scope. Though all of its actions took place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is

"The Great Gatsby" was written by a man named F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was from St. Paul, Minnesota. As a young boy Scott was always a very talented man who was able to write great stories and plays. " The Great Gatsby" presents the novel which takes place in 1920's after the World War I. The novel was published on April 10th, 1925. Throughout this novel, there are many different types of symbolism that portrays a tremendous amount of meanings, feelings, and purpose behind them.

The first is reason why I think WIlson didn’t do is because he had a sleepless night and was exhausted yet he walked several miles in just in a few hours. It is more likely Wolfshiem gave the order for the servants to kill Gatsby. They assassinated him elsewhere and placed his body on the pool air mattress. George stumbles upon this grisly scene and is then shot since he is a witness. He is then made an easily available patsy.

Gatsby’s extravagant outbursts can be explained by his desire for Daisy. They were in love when they were younger but he was too poor and lacked the pedigree to marry her; he did not meet the standards set by her parents and, evidently, by herself. Gatsby began a course of action to regain her love and shape himself into the man she wanted. He devised a plan, which made him wealthy and successfully win over Daisy but also put him into a conflict with society because his actions were illegal. Daisy also had some conflicts of her own. Her husband Tom was having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. Daisy decided in order to stop the affair, she had to run over and kill Myrtle in Gatsby’s car. This conflict lead to another, as Myrtle’s husband George believed Gatsby murdered his wife. The pain and heartache that George experienced caused him to take revenge on the man he thought killed Myrtle. He shot Gatsby to solve his issues of