Responsibility for Gatsby's Death Essay

compliments Gatsby implies she is morally empty as she plays with Gatsby’s feelings, despite her commitment to Tom and plays around her motherly responsibilities; Daisy admits she never “…[intends] doing anything at all” with Gatsby and would ever leave Tom for him (141). The scene in which Tom and Gatsby argues over Daisy’s love shows the dominance of men when Tom says, “[Daisy] is not leaving me!” after which Daisy drives Gatsby’s car and accidently kills Myrtle (142). Daisy’s inability to…

automobiles, the eyes of TJ Eckleberg, and a green light to draw attention to impulsive actions, partying, and Gatsby’s hopeless dream. Throughout this novel there are numerous examples of how cars are used to show the reckless behavior of people in the 1920’s. After attending one of Gatsby’s large and lavish parties, everyone begins to head back to their homes. Owl Eyes, one of the frequenters at Gatsby’s extravagant parties, gets into a car accident. Everyone’s gaze shifted towards the wheel…

I. Social class The Great Gatsby talk about the story that Gatsby pursue the bigwigs, but it end up with him death. For Gatsby tragedy, the society has inescapable responsibility. In a word, the social class imply the Gatsby’s tragedy was inevitable. Gatsby was born in a poor family at the Midwestern United States, his life was very difficult in the childhood. After he suffered from the poverty, he desire to become a rich man and he also have a big ambition: he don’t want to do a ordinary…

strictly driven by his relationship with the past. Jay Gatsby’s hold on his history is critical to the understanding of the novel as a whole, as well as his personality and the duality in his psyche. Fitzgerald details the struggles of humans as they attempt to attain their goals by both surpassing and reconstructing the past. This past acts as a source of ideas for the future, unescapable, as dreams struggle to turn to reality. In the novel, Gatsby’s past is characterized by the idyllic…

burning, youthful unprecedented affection, Gatsby disregards this mutual respect, underestimates the power of love to the extent that he became avaricious over her life. His exaggerated adoration drives him to conceal for Daisy’s culpability of Myrtle’s death because Gatsby creates a cloud of deception that Daisy will ultimately return to him if he gives his all, even his life. This aspect of Gatsby stresses to the world of how potent mentality is and how it can override actions because when a…

Gatsby’s faults are highlighted in the way he dismisses Myrtle’s death, “I thought so; I told Daisy I thought so. It 's better that the shock should come all at once. She stood it pretty well.” (136) Gatsby’s reaction is inadequate, and Nick’s feelings shifted from “I disliked him so by this time that I didn’t find it necessary to tell him he was wrong.” (136) to “’You’d better come home and get some sleep.’” (pg.137) He fails to recognize Gatsby’s responsibility as a bystander. Later…

Gatsby – The Cause of His Own Death In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the roaring 20’s had been introduced. It had been told from first person point of view, by Nick Carraway. The young James Gatz had fallen in love with the beautiful Daisy Fay, before he had gone to war. Daisy had married the wealthy Tom Buchanan, whom is very arrogant and currently having his third affair. As James grew older, he met a man by the name of Dan Cody, and he had decided to change his name to Jay Gatsby. Years later…

Gatsby was extremely wealthy now, the fact that he got his money from illegal activities made Daisy question if his money would be stable. This just shows how much Daisy truly only cared about money, because of how she reacts to simple things, such as Gatsby’s…

First of all, the decisions she makes concerning her husband, Tom, result in both Jay’s and Myrtle’s deaths. She doesn’t confront him about his mistress Myrtle which could have possibly put an end to the situation if Tom had known that she knew about the affair. She and Tom could have talked things out and eventually could have forgiven each other. Instead…

Misogyny in the Great Gatsby 1920s is an era of great social upheaval, a time when new ideas challenge the old ideas, during which the new feminist movement came up against the old patriarchal society. During the 20s the feminist movement was fiercer than it ever was, and because of so, many traditional patriarchal followers felt threatened and the need to counter such movement. In the book the Great Gatsby, trace of such conflict is also seen. From Daisy’s self-awareness and Jordan Baker’s…