Negligence In The Great Gatsby Analysis

People who are careless about what they do not only affect their own lives, but they also end up changing or altering others’ lives as well. This was the case throughout the entire novel, entitled The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald starts off the novel with an ambitious, young man by the name of Nick Carraway. This man moves to West Egg in New York to become a bonds man, but soon ends up dropping his aspiring plan to follow Jay Gatsby on a wild ride. Jay Gatsby, referred to as Gatsby throughout the novel, has newfangled wealth, but is chasing after a woman by the name of Daisy—who is married to Tom Buchanan who is old money. Daisy and Gatsby meet five years earlier while Gatsby was in the military. Upon his deployment, the unadulterated truth that Gatsby was poor came into focus and he was unable to keep Daisy close to him. When Gatsby returns from his deployment, he works as hard as he can to earn all of his money and, hopefully, get Daisy back. As the characters unite, their carelessness and negligence begins to be a large driving force behind the major events in the novel. Over the course of the plot, the negligence is a huge theme that Fitzgerald portrays and it is exemplified through the main characters; Gatsby, Jordan, and Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Gatsby’s prodigious care and compassion for Daisy leads him to become careless about anything in his life that did not involve Daisy. Although he had money, fame, and people all around him, he was not concerned with anyone …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, uses the carelessness of the characters to guide the story on a roller-coaster of events. The carelessness of these characters leads to the eventual deaths of Myrtle, Tom, and Wilson. Carelessness also leads the Buchanan’s to move away from East Egg, and it leaves Nick with no place to go. Negligence facilitates a crucial role in the story of Jay Gatsby and all of the people who he associates