In my opinion, everybody in this book was not a prime example of a good person. However, I do not believe that all of them are to blame for the deaths that occurred during this story. Two people stick out to me more than anybody as the cause. The first is Tom Buchanan and the second is his wife, Daisy Buchanan. Tom Buchanan is an all-around bad person. He’s a racist, as we see in chapter one during dinner when he refers to caucasian people as the “superior race”, a hypocrite, as seen in chapter seven when a fight occurs soon after Tom finds out that Daisy has been having an affair with Gatsby despite the fact that Tom himself is having an affair, and a narcissist, as seen in chapter nine when Tom complains to Nick that when Tom went to the apartment he utilized to orchestrate his affair with Myrtle and saw the dog biscuits he cried, in an effort to make Nick feel sorry for him. All of these factors give rise to him being an awful person and husband and cheating on his wife. If Tom had never cheated on his wife, none of the murders would have ever taken place. …show more content…
When our group of main characters is driving to town, Tom is driving in Gatsby’s yellow Rolls-Royce, seemingly as a way to get back at Gatsby for being Daisy’s paramour. Consequently, when Myrtle sees the car driving back out of town, she mistakes Gatsby for Tom and believes Tom is in driving the car, running out to talk to him, ultimately leading to her demise. All of this takes place during chapter 7. If Tom had never had an affair with Myrtle, Myrtle wouldn’t have run out to talk to Tom because she wouldn’t have known him at all, and she wouldn’t have