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Character Analysis: The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Why won’t you just listen Jay, why won’t you just leave until it all blows over, go to Montreal and be safe, it’s an awful lot of strife you’ve been placed into all because you we’re too stupid to see how much of an indecisive person Daisy is. Damn Daisy, that’s another thing, she’s so clumsy and delusional. She doesn’t have a care in the world for anything but herself, and now after causing so much disorganized chaos and pain for many people she will run away from the hot mess she made and hide behind her wealth in her large house surrounded by people just as toxic and uncaring as her. Tom creates such offhanded remarks, so many disrespectful things are said by that ‘brute’ as Daisy would call him, even his own wife knows how disrespectful he is, what a man. What makes him make such an offhanded and rude remark as ‘I figure he’s just a bootlegger’, why does he …show more content…

He lied to protect Daisy and to try to impress her, everything he did was all for Daisy, he tried so hard to impress her and he did all the right things but she was just too inconsiderate and her forever changing mind got the better of Gatsby. She never could make her mind up that girl so indecisive, Gatsby did everything he could to impress her and he would’ve given anything to be with her and she threw it back into his face. Even after all of that Gatsby is still willing to take the blame for Myrtles death, even after being betrayed by Daisy at the last minute by her not running away with him and making him look like a complete fool in front of Tom, Jordan and I he is still willing to take the blame. This is certain jail time and even possible death for Gatsby, it’s not fair and after all of the catastrophe she has caused the fool has ran away into her wealth and

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Even worse to be caught in a scandal and sent to jail. Even from a less paranoid perspective gatsby just wasn't a reliable partner. He cared more about Daisy than anything else including secrets he should have kept. When angry with Tom before Myrtle death, Gatsby and Tom went into detail about certain things I

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He does this because he has lived his entire life and accomplished many things for Daisy, and Daisy only. He loves her so much that he is willing to go down for a murder he didn’t even commit, just so she is free and happy. Due to this lie, Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson, is led to believe that Gatsby did in fact kill her. Wilson then goes on to shoot and kill Jay Gatsby. This is Gatsby’s one last lie that ultimately resulted in his

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At the beginning of the novel, we are lead to believe that Gatsby is simply an admirable, highly-accomplished, extremely kind individual. Later, when we learn his true aim, we believe him to be love-struck individual, one to sympathize, even empathize, with. However, once Gatsby’s deception is revealed, his illegally earned wealth, we are repulsed by his lack of morality. Indeed, his desire to be the object of Daisy’s love was so strong that it effaced much of the honesty within him. Gatsby finds no qualms about lying, even in such an intimate action as love, causing the readers to reconsider his

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” Gatsby’s plan had backfired and blew up in his face, everything he had done up till now was gone. The parties planned, the money, the house, the plans he made with Nick, gone, all gone and turned to dust. His tragic fall was that he thought that he could repeat the past and have everything go back to the way it was before it never could be that way, he was 5 years to

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She is being a coward by not sticking up for herself and saying something to him. She doesn’t have the courage to stand up to Tom and tell him what he is doing isn't okay, because she is afraid of him and worried he will leave her. She also is afraid to lose him because he has lots of money and she gets everything paid for by him. Without Tom, she might be near to nothing.

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Everyone has their own theory, so do characters in The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the novel, people seems to have their own theories of who Jay Gatsby really is. The mysterious Gatsby was a royalty, a devil, a devil, or whoever “somebody told [them]” (44). It portrays the carelessness of the society. Somebody pretended to know Gatsby, somebody adopted the beliefs about his identity from someone else, but nobody actually made an attempt to get to know the real him as Nick said, “sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all” (41).

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