“Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.” (John Sandford). In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the narrator Nick Carraway exposed to many careless people. The novel is about millionaire Jay Gatsby and is narrated by Nick who lives next to Gatsby, shortly Nick learns that Gatsby is in love Daisy which is Nick’s cousin Gatsby ask Nick to plan a meeting for him and Daisy soon after Gatsby and Daisy begin seeing each other. Near the end of the novel Gatsby and Tom get into an argument in the city about who Daisy loves inevitably Tom wins the argument sending Gatsby to drive Daisy home as Gatsby and Daisy drive back to East Egg Daisy is driving when she accidentally hits and kills Myrtle Myrtle's husband George searches for the car when tom tells him that it was Gatsby’s car he goes to Gatsby’s house and he shoots him and then himself. In the novel The Great Gatsby Tom and Daisy are careless people. …show more content…
At the end of the novel George Wilson is searching for the car that ran over his wife Myrtle, George suspects that the owner was the one who had an affair with his George asks Tom about the yellow car because he was seen in it earlier “He was crazy enough to kill me if i hadn’t told him who owned the car.” (Fitzgerald 178). With little resistance Tom tells george that gatsby is the owner of the car knowing that george is ready to kill gatsby Tom does nothing to stop him because it does not concern him he just looks the other way and lets the heinous crime