The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is full of complex character interactions and dynamics, and many characters' motivations seem unclear. The main character, Jay Gatsby, a bootlegger who rose from rags to riches and harbors extreme feelings of love for a married woman, Daisy Buchanan. George Wilson, whose wife Daisy in Gatsby’s car ran over and who believes Gatsby was having an affair with his wife, shoots Jay at his pool where he relaxes. While George Wilson shoots Gatsby, Gatsby is responsible for his own death. George pulled the trigger, nevertheless he was only there because Gatby’s unsavory reputation made it plausible he was having an entanglement with George’s wife, Gatsby permitted a nervous Daisy drive his car recklessly and kill
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And when returning from the inner city, he allows a nervous Daisy Buchanan to drive his car recklessly. Tom, Jordan, Nick, Daisy, and Jay go into the inner city, and an intense argument ensues. Gatsby, in his misplaced egotistical quest for Daisy's love, instigates the argument, demanding Daisy proclaim her eternal love for him in front of her husband. After getting into an intense verbal altercation with Tom, Jay demands Daisy “tell him the truth” and tell him she “never loved him”. (Fitzgerald 101) This misogynistic argument consequently puts Daisy on edge as her future depends on what these men deliberate to do after the argument. If Tom decided to divorce her because she proclaimed her love to another man, and if Jay decided he doesn’t love her anymore as she used to love Tom, she could wind up destitute. The fault of the argument falls on Gatsby, and so does Daisy’s future mental state. On the way back from the inner city days, a nervous wreck, wishes to drive to “calm her nerves”. Gatsby, instead of being rational and seeing how nervous and torn up she felt after an argument that could possibly destroy her future as a woman in the 1920’s, allows her
And when returning from the inner city, he allows a nervous Daisy Buchanan to drive his car recklessly. Tom, Jordan, Nick, Daisy, and Jay go into the inner city, and an intense argument ensues. Gatsby, in his misplaced egotistical quest for Daisy's love, instigates the argument, demanding Daisy proclaim her eternal love for him in front of her husband. After getting into an intense verbal altercation with Tom, Jay demands Daisy “tell him the truth” and tell him she “never loved him”. (Fitzgerald 101) This misogynistic argument consequently puts Daisy on edge as her future depends on what these men deliberate to do after the argument. If Tom decided to divorce her because she proclaimed her love to another man, and if Jay decided he doesn’t love her anymore as she used to love Tom, she could wind up destitute. The fault of the argument falls on Gatsby, and so does Daisy’s future mental state. On the way back from the inner city days, a nervous wreck, wishes to drive to “calm her nerves”. Gatsby, instead of being rational and seeing how nervous and torn up she felt after an argument that could possibly destroy her future as a woman in the 1920’s, allows her