Responsibility for Gatsby's Death Essay

current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” implies that society works hard to transcend the past but gets nowhere. Humans think they are progressing, but every step they take towards the goal is another step away from it. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s dream “seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city… Gatsby believed in the green light…” (Fitzgerald 180). Gatsby worked hard to…

character, but he is involved in a hit and run, and his credibility with the audience diminishes. They start to lose their fondness for Gatsby even though he takes the blame for Daisy. Fitzgerald uses his writing to knock the audience into reality, and Gatsby’s charm begins to decrease. Tiger Woods exemplifies moral decay in today’s society. Being a professional athlete, he’s in the spotlight a lot. Woods lost many fans after his cheating scandal and divorce from Ellin Nordgren. Not only did…

this world, a beautiful little fool.”(Fitzgerald 17). This indicates that Daisy wants her child to someone who is only liked for their looks or appearance. She doesn’t care what kind of person her daughter is; Daisy wants her daughter to have no responsibilities, much like herself. When Gatsby reunites with Daisy, he shows her around his mansion and during this tour she begins to cry and utters, “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before. This proves just how…

story forward, for instance Gatsby’s one of a kind yellow car that would eventually kill Myrtle. The function of Gatsby’s car shows Jay’s decadence, success and wealth whilst the colour, yellow, the index of the object, signifies his corruption. The insistent usage of colour can only signify Fitzgerald’s intended denotations to how the reader constructs lines between the characters ideologies and his own. Moreover, usage of the colour green in particular signifies Gatsby’s monumental feelings of…

In Great Gatsby, all of the characters are left to contend with the past especially Mr. Gatsby himself who has a particularly intriguing past. In terms of Gatsby’s past, all remains a mystery but one simple fact : Gatsby may be filthy rich now, but has not always been. Gatsby's so-called overnight success leads the aristocrats of East Egg to believe Mr. Gatsby was involved in crimes like “bootlegging” in order to attain such money. Whether or not Gatsby was explicitly involved in crime, the…

Each individual in a caring relationship bears a responsibility. This is not a responsibility to love the partner because while love creates the relationship, it may not always sustain the relationship. This responsibility requires a partner to respect the other in order to construct and nurture a caring relationship. Frequently, men lose the sight of their responsibilities. In some cases, the relationship is not established and the care does not exist, a clear image of the denigration of women.…

whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” (453). Gatsby’s tragic death is directly caused by two factors: Daisy’s cowardice to confess her crime and Tom’s deliberate accusation of Gatsby as the killer to George Wilson. Despite their immoral acts, they take no trouble to attend Gatsby’s funeral but simply move away to disclaim all responsibility. Secondly, the elite class has a classist prejudice against other levels of society, in which Tom…

home the night Myrtle is killed, each person seems to go about life as usual with Tom telling Nick that “[he] better go in the kitchen and have them get [him] some supper” (142). Although Tom has a very close relationship to Myrtle in the novel, her death does not seem to affect him in the slightest. This implies that Tom only cares for Myrtle when it is convenient for him. The fact that he only cares about his own convenience shows how his mind is too shallow to think beyond himself. In…

unlocked), to wipe the slate clean and begin anew – that is Gatsby’s illusion.”（Bloom57）Additionally, these days, many critics believe that the love story of Gatsby and Daisy is based on Fitzgerald’s own experience, his marriage to Zelda. The critic Greenfield writes: “This was the romantic and realistic Fitzgerald writing of his marriage, without truly understanding Zelda’s needs”(Greenfield 80). The same issue also appears in Gatsby’s relationship: does Gatsby really understand Daisy’s desire?…

Hermanson, “for all characters, the relationship between the past and the future is at issue, as well as personal responsibility for the choices they make in navigating the present between these”(Hermanson), explaining how the characters have the ability to cross between the boundaries of time. They remain impartial to the restrictions and rules time sets, selectively ignoring…