Consequences In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every choice and action has a consequence. Good and bad consequences follow good and bad events. A person is responsible for their own actions, but do consequences always reveal responsibility? Can money eliminate consequences? In The Great Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan have a large sum of money but almost never any consequences. During the summer of 1922 in Long Island, New York, Nick Carraway, the narrator lives in the wealthy, up-and-coming West Egg with his neighbor Jay Gatsby. His cousin ,Daisy, and her husband who have established old money live in East Egg. Daisy and Tom live carefree lives and use their money and other people to cover up their bad habits and escape the consequences of their actions. Cheating and lies from them end

He hits her and is mean. Tom makes Nick come with him to go see her one day. Nick does not want to go with him at all, but Nick is forced to go anyway. When they go to Wilson’s garage, Tom sneaks around behind George’s back when he talks to his wife. Nick just watches. Just because Myrtle says his wife’s name, he breaks her nose fast. He does not care after. The story says, “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women’s voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain,” (Fitzgerald 27). Tom smacks her and gets other people who were there in the room to clean up the mess when he actually did it. His money kind of controls her and has power over her in their relationship. She has to listen to him and not care when he hurts her if she wants to keep his money around for her. Daisy is also hurts Myrtle because she eventually kills her and does not even care enough to say she did it. Daisy beats Myrtle with Gatsby’s fancy car, and he says he is responsible to Nick. Nick asks, “‘Was Daisy driving?’ ‘Yes,’ he said after a moment, ‘but of course I’ll say I was…’” (Fitzgerald 89). Daisy did not say it was her ever, even at the end of the book. She actually killed Tom’s girl, but someone else cleaned up her careless chose. Tom and Daisy made a mess of Myrtle’s life and even killed her,

Tom makes Nick come with him to see his girlfriend who is Myrtle. Tom does not even care if he does not want to go. Tom says, “‘We’re getting off,’ he insisted. ‘I want you to meet my girl’” (Fitzgerald 19). This shows that already at the beginning of the story Tom is a big bully to Nick. He makes he come with him and never asks or sees if he wants to actually go meet this woman. It makes it the worst because Nick and Daisy have been cousins. Nick might be kind of loyal to Daisy, and Tom put him in the middle of the affair. It is not right to make others a part of bad things, and Tom should not force Nick to come. Tom does not care how Nick feels about coming with him. Daisy treats Nick bad too in the book. Daisy gets Nick caught up in the cheating her husband does on her. Daisy tells Nick all about the bad things happening in her marriage with Tom, even the cheating. Nick tries to get Daisy to talk about their daughter, but she would like to talk about herself and the problems with Tom’s cheater self more than the kid. Nick does not know how to handle her crying and emotions, and he is once again thrown in the middle of the marriage problems. Nick talks about how weirded out he feels about the whole thing on page 18, “Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich-nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away”(Fitzgerald). Nick shows how disgusting these people are and how they really treat each other