Irrespossibility Of Death In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby acknowledges and criticizes how people, often those of a higher class, let their lives be completely consumed by an obsession with materialistic and mundane things as well as entirely insignificant interactions with others. As Bukowski implies, since everything we do results in the nothingness of death and we lose all that we care for in life, there is no reason not to enjoy every fleeting moment we have with one another. the characters in The Great Gatsby are forced to come to terms with their purposes in life, the control which they obtain over their own lives and contemplate whether or not they have wasted their lives on pointless endeavors. In this essay, the superficial and trivial lives of average people that are explored

Myrtle Wilson had been in a torrid affair with Tom Buchanan, each in the relationship because of their tiredness with their own lives, but, also, their inability to confront their own wrongdoings and problems. Myrtle had spent her whole life hoping for someone else to take her from her marriage and give her a new, happier life. Myrtle was struck by a car and killed abruptly one night in the middle of an argument with her husband. The text describing the event of her death was short as well, possibly written that way to emphasize the sharpness of death, and it reads “A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting-before he could move from his food the business was

The secrets she had kept and the anger she had let fester inside her never amounted to closure for her or anyone else affected by her affair. “Terrorized” by her state of being and the monotony of her life, she remained miserable, but, in the moment of her death, every single one of her hopes and the hours spent waiting for someone else to “save” her no longer had any importance.
In The Great Gatsby, the characters appear to be in denial of death, or at least in denial of the pointlessness of anger because of the inescapability of death. All of the characters are living their lives as if wasting time by being unhappy will result in anything but resentment for themselves and those around them, and as if unhappiness has any point at all. Tom Buchanan is a good, if not the best, example, in the book, of this mindset considering his extremely immature behaviors. Tom is an extremely stubborn and standoffish character. He refuses to confront his problems or take responsibility for his actions and repeatedly acts based off of anger and general selfishness. Tom is bored in his marriage, and, as opposed to putting in the effort to make his marriage better, he proceeds to repeatedly, and openly, cheat on his wife.