Who Is Responsible For Gatsby's Death?

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Who is Responsible for Gatsby’s Death?

Love is a serious of complex chemical reactions that no one knows what will happen in next step. In Fitzgerald’s book ‘The Great Gatsby’, a snoopy man who tried to repeat the love in the past was killed. Gatsby is new money whose girlfriend married a man who owns a wealth family, because Gatsby didn 't return after he attended a war. In an accident, Daisy, the women who Gatsby loves driving a car and collide Daisy husband’s mistress, Myrtle. His furious husband killed Gatsby in order to seek revenge for his wife. In my opinion, Gatsby’s death was another symbol of love failure. His death mainly caused by himself. He is the one who should be responsible for his own death. To prove my argument, my supporting
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His live style has a large matter of responsible for his own death. During the age that Gatsby lives, Jazz time, people’s lacking of loyal to love is universal. Tom’s mistress, Myrtle, is also cheating her husband. Due to her words in the first time Nick join the party they have in New York City. “‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,’ she said finally. ‘I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.’”(Fitzgerald, pp.37) She blamed his husband that he was poor. Apparently wealth is more important than love in commonplace. Gatsby knows it very well. As a result, he makes his success in by using his money. It influence the way about Gatsby doing things and thinking. He always uses money as bargaining whatever in business or in daily life. In chapter V, Gatsby wants to offer Nick some business in order to achieve his purpose. It is a reflection that money is his major way for achieving goal. In most of the time, he can get what he wants by money. He sets up large party to attract people’s attention. His success makes him became confidence and tern to consequentiality. Without a doubt he believes that Daisy married Tom just because of his money. Due to the words from Daisy during the struggle happens in Hotel. ‘I did love him once – but I loved you too.’ He lost in his plan. He was too easy to achieve his goal and makes him has no plan B. He doesn’t know what to do after he has failed his plan. Gatsby is a man who get what he wants, the work he did this far is all because his eagerness of Daisy. Daisy is not so easy to get like money. It is full of uncertain and Gatsby didn 't realize it until that time. This way of act and think will indirectly cause his failure of love. Stubborn will make love goes

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