Reasons For Jay Gatsby's Death

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For my written task, I have decided to do a tabloid newspaper article on possible reasons for Jay Gatsby’s death and about Jay Gatsby. The purpose of this task is to speculate about the possible reasons why Gatsby died by linking to Myrtle’s death and about whether it was true that Gatsby killed Myrtle. Another purpose is to explore Gatsby’s identity by taking the rumours about him into account. The target audience would be the working class people in America.

I have chosen this topic because Gatsby’s death is a topic with other sub factors like Myrtle’s death and Wilson’s death which can be linked together. The novel also states that his death received a lot of interest from the reporters and the reports were negative making it suitable for

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