Essay Who Is To Blame For Gatsby's Downfall

Throughout the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the title character Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a man yearning to be reunited with his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby's is in a relentless pursuit of Daisy which drives the plot of the novel and ultimately leads to his demise. Gatsby is to blame for his own demise because, he often blames himself for other’s actions, like Myrtle’s murder. Gatsby also suffers from a tragic flaw, this being his inability to wake up from his dreams of the past and accept his reality. In the Novel “The Great Gatsby” Gatsby if often blaming himself for other’s actions. For example, “was Daisy driving” “Yes, he said after a moment, but of course I’ll say I was.” This was taken place outside of Tom Buchanans house where, Nick and Gatsby were talking about the accident with Myrtle. This does end up hurting Gatsby because, George thinks Gatsby was the one that killed myrtle when it was really Daisy causing George to go kill Gatsby. Another example is when Daisy said, “Oh, you want too much! She cried to Gatsby.”I love you now isn’t that enough.” This was when Gatsby was trying to get

For example, Gatsby says, “Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can.” This was when Nick was telling Gatsby that he should stop trying to bring the past to the present and how you can’t repeat that past, but Gatsby doesn’t think so. This caused his demise because he chased after Daisy though she had a husband and Gatsby tried to get Daisy to do an impossible task, in her eyes. Another example is when Daisy says, “Why don’t we all go to the city?” This is when Daisy is going to try to tell tom that she doesn’t love him anymore, but Daisy realizes that she may have loved Gatsby once. Daisy is thinking about everything she would be throwing away the wealth, status, and freedom that she has with