Throughout the narrative, Nick becomes disgusted by careless people which results in his desire to condemn others for their selfish actions and his choice to go back home. Ewing Klipspringer is a very careless character in The Great Gatsby. He benefited probably more than anyone from Gatsby, he was always at the parties and basically lived there. People even called him the boarder, as in a boarding house or hotel. Even though Klipspringer was living rent-free and benefiting from Gatsby, he never went to Gatsby’s funeral. All he had to do was just show up for one funeral, but he was too careless to even do that. When Nick is on the phone with Klipspringer, Nick “ejaculated an unrestrained ‘Huh!” (169). With this one word, the readers can clearly …show more content…
She is in a special position where she has enough money and position to get away with a lot more than others. Daisy might be the most careless and reckless person in the book. To begin with, she causes a lot of tension between Tom and Gatsby. Although this was not her fault in some ways, she could have handled it a lot better. The main example of recklessness is killing Myrtle. When she was driving that night, she had no regard for danger and consequences. This is clearly shown when Gatsby explains that “first Daisy turned away from the women toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back”... “Daisy stepped on it.” (143/144). In this example, Daisy is very reckless. She is reckless and not just careless, because careless is just a lack of care, being reckless is not caring about danger or consequence. Daisy shows more carelessness later on when she doesn’t take any responsibility, or even feels sorry for Myrtle or Gatsby. Nick explains how he thinks of people like Daisy later on when he says, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (179). With this explanation, Nick shows how people like Tom and Daisy are very careless and have no regard for their