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Examples Of Corruption In The Great Gatsby

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Corruption of the American Dream Many people in this decade of our lives have their own version of the american dream. When being a kid and learning about the american dream, we think of a family in a nice house with kids and pets. We don’t know to truly think of what the american dream is for people. The Great Gatsby is great at telling what it was like back in the 1920s when people were finding their american dreams. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the american dream corrupts Jay Gatsby and takes over his life. The “american dream” was invented so to say in 1931. James Truslow Adams defined the american dream as “a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of fortuitous circumstances of birth or position” (Willis para. 3). Adams also made it easier to understand by saying it is a “dream of a better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank” (Willis para. 4). …show more content…

Tom sends Gatsby and Daisy home. Daisy ends up being the one to drive and her emotion are all over the place. She ends up hitting Myrtle Wilson with Gatsby’s yellow car and drives off. She doesn’t bother to stop to see if she's dead or anything. When Tom, Jordan and Nick drive by they notice the big crowd and find out what happened. They find out that Myrtle had died and found out that a big bright car hit her. Tom was livid because he immediately knew it was Gatsby’s car, but he didn’t know it was Daisy driving. Tom talks with Wilson and tells him about Gatsby. This puts the image that it was all Gatsby’s fault in Wilsons head so he wants revenge. Wilson goes to Jay’s house and finds him then shoots him in the pool and turns the gun on himself. He truly believed it was all Gatsby’s fault and Wilson could not live without

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Tom’s love for Daisy really hurts some people in the story. Myrtle who is a pretty innocent person that gets caught up in everything dies as she is ran over as a shaken and confused Daisy drives recklessly in Gatsby’s car from the events of Gatsby and Tom’s argument. Gatsby also dies because Tom told Wilson that Gatsby was the one who ran Myrtle over and Wilson went to Gatsby’s house and killed him. The book shows that love can be

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Daisy only admits that she loved them both, and Gatsby is shocked. Tom then reveals that Gatsby made his wealth by bootlegging alcohol. Tom later tells Daisy to go home with Gatsby. They leave in Gatsby's car, while Tom, Nick, and Jordan follow sometime later. As they drive home, Tom, Nick, and Jordan come upon an accident: Myrtle has been hit and killed by a

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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.

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At a luncheon later in the novel, Toms realizes the love between Daisy and Jay and becomes furious. Toms tells Daisy how Gatsby became wealthy illegally and Daisy decides that her allegiance is to Tom. Tom then allows Daisy to go back to West Egg with Gatsby to show him that he cannot be hurt by his actions. When Gatsby and Daisy are driving back through the Valley of Ashes, they accidently strike Myrtle and kill her and then drive off. Gatsby tells Tom that even though Daisy was driving the car, he intends to take the blame.

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The parties at Gatsby's house ends because he doesn’t need parties to get Daisy’s attention for attraction. In Chapter seven, Daisy has Nick, Gatsby, Tom and Jordan to lunch with her. At lunch Tom steps into another room Daisy kisses Gatsby and told him she loved him. We learned that Tom and Daisy have a daughter together named Pammy. When Myrtle was hit Tom knows that Myrtle saw Gatsby’s car and thought it was Tom’s car because he was driving his car earlier in the day.

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After this incident, distressed Daisy drives the car to her home with Gatsby, and on the way she crushes her car to Myrtle, which results in her husband killing Gatsby. In conclusion, the unrealistic expectations of Gatsby, overwhelmed Daisy, and caused her enough disorientation to run over someone with a car, which resulted in the death of

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was a story chock full of deceit, corruptness, loneliness, and a myriad of facades. The wretched life of Jay Gatsby, a man so in love he would lose himself in attempt to find her, Mrs. Daisy Buchanan. As the story begins to unfold, the least unsuspected man turns out to be the most corrupt character of the whole book, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby lived a life of poverty leading him to create a whole new identity that entailed success and wealth. The first sign that reveals his deceptive mannerism is how Jay felt it was necessary to re-write his life instead of work with the life he has been given.

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There, conflict arises between Tom and Gatsby, and their world of fantasy becomes a world of rivalry and strife. In the midst of conflict, Myrtle Wilson is struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle. Nick later learns this vehicle to have been driven by Daisy; however, Gatsby shoulders the blame. Nick’s morality is tried one last time, as he must decide whether or not to let Gatsby take the blame for such a horrible incident. Nick ultimately decides to leave Gatsby despite the previous knowledge he acquired.

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According to Andy Warhol, “making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art” (Brainy Quotes). The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby shows the craziness of the Roaring Twenties and the rivalry between two social standards, old money, and new money. He decided to work hard to achieve legally like other people. After the death of his benefactor, he decided to get money through prohibition, the illegal way.

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Jay Gatsby throws the most extravagant parties all of West Egg has ever seen confirmed by the mass amounts of people, the entertainment, the food, and the drinks. Gatsby throws these parties in attempt to impress his former lover Daisy Buchanan, whether one day she’ll set foot into one of the infamous parties, see the bright lights from across the bay, or hear about the massive parties thrown by a mystery man named Gatsby. Even though his parties were tremendous many in attendance weren’t even sure who Gatsby truly was, there were rumors spread like the game of telephone “Somebody told me, they thought he killed a man once.” “I don’t think it’s so much that , it’s more that he was a German Spy during the war.” (48) Most guests drop in to

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The American Dream is an ideal, but it can be compared to an advertisement for a product. It appeals to society, tempting those with its colorful claims of prosperity, wealth and freedom. Through hard work, anyone can live a life of smiles and backyard barbecues. However, much like an advertisement, there is more than meets the eye. The dark side of humanity reveals that people are willing to do deplorable things in order to attain goals.

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Corruption is a common topic in our society today, as it can be seen everywhere from police to politicians and even everyday people. Around third of all elected representatives, police, and business executives are considered corrupt in some way. In the story of The Great Gatsby, many aspects and causes of corruption are brought to light throughout the novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald attempts to vaguely help cleanse this corruption by highlighting the moral decay, bad consequences, and emptiness associated with power and wealth. By using the examples and causes of corruption within The Great Gatsby, along with real life situations and examples of corruption, we can see how Fitzgerald is trying to send a bigger message about corruption and how to

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The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic 20th century story -that period was also known as the “roaring twenties”- which critiques the vision of the American Dream people in general have. At that time, the idea of a free market, and industrial revolution provided the opportunity for many to seize the market and people were starting to see that they could become rich without having any type of restriction. New York city was the centre of this wealth-creating society. After the war, this movement generated new opportunities and ambitions for people wanting to start a wealthy upper class life. That period of time was all about alcohol, partying, gambling, fashion, and money.

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The Great Gatsby In Scott Fitzgerald book “The Great Gatsby”, lying and cheating is the crime in the book. In the book Gatsby is the perpetrator and Daisy is the victim. In chapter 4 Gatsby lying about “I did old sport … most of it in the big panic”(95).Gatsby was lying about how he got his big house. Another lie told in book Gatsby told Tom “But I’ll say I was”(151).

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In the post World War One era where alcohol and flappers are prominent, the story of The Great Gatsby is told in first-person narration by Nick Carraway. The story takes place in the 1920s, in New York City, which is a symbol of wealth, materialism and “meretricious beauty” (Fitzgerald 98). This symbol is what causes New York in the 1920s to be seen as a corrupt time period where Gatsby is corrupt himself. Gatsby is a criminal; he is so focused on the materialistic ideals of the world that he is turned into a criminal, and is essentially one with his corrupt time period. This way he lives, where his life revolves around money and crime, is what causes him to create a dream.

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