Bad Decisions In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the actions of others can shape someone else’s life. An example of a person who shaped another’s life is Daisy Buchanan. She is the wife to Tom Buchanan and Gatby’s lover. Gatsby was around thirty years old when he saw Daisy again. He made a lot of bad decisions to try and get Daisy back that led to his death by George Wilson. Although he is a contributor to his death, George Wilson and Daisy Buchanan are ultimately who led to his death. Jay Gatsby is a contributor to his own death because he makes bad decisions to get his dream. An example of a bad decision is when he purposely let Nick stay in his guesthouse and be his neighbor. All he was really doing was using Nick for his own personal gain.

Daisy didn’t know that Gatsby was going to be there. When Gatsby and Daisy first met at the tea party, they were awkward, but after a while they were playing around and talking to each other, like old times. Jordan told Nick, “He wants to know if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over” (Fitzgerald 78). What this is saying is that Gatsby is also using Jordan to get what he wants, not just Nick. Another example is when he told Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him and only loves Gatsby. Daisy then got mad at Gatsby and led to a spiral of events that eventually led to her killing Myrtle with the car and Gatbsy dying. Clearly, if Gatsby would have just left Daisy alone, she could've stayed with Tom and nothing would have happened including Gatsby’s death. Gatsby’s death can also be blamed on George for numerous

Even though George might’ve wanted revenge because he actually loved Myrtle, that doesn’t give him an excuse to murder someone. He found out Myrtle was cheating on him, but he didn’t know who with. George then goes and locks Myrtle in a room because he didn’t want her seeing the person she is cheating on him with. If he wouldn’t have locked her in a room, maybe Myrtle would have never thought of needing to escape something or someone. Then she wouldn’t have run outside, ending up being hit by a car. Nick tells us, “Her expression was curiously familiar-it was an expression I had often seen on women’s faces, but on Myrtle Wilson’s face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife” (Fitzgerald 125). The quote explains why Myrtle ran out in front of the car. She thought Jordan was Tom’s wife. The look on her face was one of hatred. Wilson also didn’t know the full story about who actually killed Myrtle and he shouldn’t have done anything before he knew, even if he was acting out of revenge and