In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Wilson shoots Jay Gatsby as well as himself out of anger due to the loss of his wife. Although Wilson is legally at fault for killing Gatsby, Daisy and Tom are two characters that could both be morally responsible for the death as they fuel the events leading up to it. Daisy acted innocent and was a direct cause leading to the event as she was the one killed Myrtle. Tom let it build up and made assumptions out of spite towards Gatsby, he told Wilson it was Gatsby who was driving. Both played a role in being morally responsible for the actual event happening however I believe that one holds more responsibility.
Tom could have prevented Gatsby's death by not telling George Wilson that Gatsby had killed Myrtle even thought he knew it was Daisy who had actually killed her. Jay Gatsby, can also be partly held responsible for his own death because of his
Daisy is used to represent the innocence, beauty, and perfection that both Gatsby and nature want. Without Daisy, Gatsby cannot have the same love he had in his youth. Although, that love was transient. Since time
As we see Daisy develop throughout the story and learn more about the inside parts of her life, we see her develop into a more depressed girl. From the moment of the affair, to finding out Gatsby is back in town wanting her. She develops the shadowy personality that goes behind Tom’s back. Not only going to be Tom’s back but continuing to still be with Tom after knowing he's having an affair. Knowing he is having an affair causes her to develop mental struggles that continue in the story towards Nick, Gatsby, and Jordan.
In my opinion, Tom is most responsible for Gatsby’s death. I believe that Tom is most responsible because Tom forgot to tell George that Daisy was the driver of Gatsby’s car the night Myrtle was hit by it. Tom forgot to tell George that because him and Daisy were plotting this out. I could tell something was up when Nick refers that “Tom and Daisy talking in the house(146). I also think that Daisy is a little bit responsible because she took on some bad morals when she hit Myrtle because she could have stopped the car after she hit Myrtle.
“The Great Gatsby” Blame Game In the romantic novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a guy named Nick who moves to West Egg (an area near New York), and he meets a guy named Gatsby. It turns out Gatsby is madly in love with his cousin Daisy (who happens to be married), and Nick helps them rekindle their love. But with all the events that are going to play out, Gatsby ends up dead at the end of the book. There are a lot of factors that played into his death, but there is one person to really blame for Gatsby’s death: Tom, Daisy's husband.
Gatsby is responsible for his ultimate demise. Gatsby tends to get hooked on people and emotions very quick and becomes obsessive with them. Daisy is one of these people. Everything that Gatsby does is for Daisy; without her influence, Gatsby never would have gotten more wealthy and purchased all of the things that conveyed his wealth. In fact, the only reason Gatsby is involved with such sketchy business is to get money to impress Daisy by purchasing his large mansion and other small details like his many expensive shirts.
Daisy made Gatsby feel special and important. He wanted the golden girl who everyone wanted and has high status would prove him to be important. Being with Daisy Fay would prove he was Jay Gatsby, a man worthy of her and not James Gatz, a penniless farm boy. Gatsby revisits Louisville as if it's a grave memento to the love he and Daisy had, but instead of accepting the death, he wishes to resurrect it. He fills his head with delusions about the day Daisy will run back to him and confess her undying love.
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.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby was murdered by George Wilson Husband of Myrtle. In the court of law there’s only one person who was responsible and guilty for the murder of Jay Gatsby. Although in the eyes of god there was more than one person responsible for the murder or had the ability to stop the outcome of the murder. Weather it was Tom being honest about his affair, Daisy doing the right thing and stopping during the accident or Jay Gatsby himself by taking control of the situation and doing what was good for both Daisy and himself instead of just what 's best for Daisy. Tom, Myrtle, Daisy, and Gatsby were selfish and self centered leading them to become Morally responsible for the death of Jay Gatsby.
In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed as a modern woman; she is sophisticated, careless and beautifully shallow. Daisy knows who she is, and what it takes for her to be able to keep the lifestyle she grew up in, and this adds to her carelessness and her feigned interest in life. In all, Daisy is a woman who will not sacrifice material desires or comfort for love or for others, and her character is politely cruel in this way. Daisy’s main strength, which buoyed her throughout her youth and when she was in Louisville, is her ability to know what was expected of her and feign cluelessness.
Though Gatsby’s weaknesses may outbalance his strengths, there is an up and down to everything. To begin, Gatsby is very naïve, his lack of judgement and wisdom do not work to his benefit. His naivety throughout the novel, blocks him from the true reality of who Daisy is. Daisy is a woman who thrives on the attention and wealth of others, she no longer loves Gatsby the way he genuinely loves her. This leads to him into taking the blame for Myrtle’s death, which he would not have done, if he was not protecting Daisy from the backlash.
She represented old money and the ideal of social mobility. Gatsby never wanted Daisy because he loved her, but because she was his door to becoming old money, to gaining the social backing, his proof of true social mobility. No matter how rich and extravagant Gatsby became, he would never truly achieve social mobility without Daisy showing that social mobility is a fraud. A fraud keeping people in this dreamlike state, waiting for that day when they are able to freely move through social class from one level to the next. A fraud so profound it could only be created by the American people; and realized by them, it keeps them alive fueling their fervent passion and helping them overcome monumental struggles later to be let down by the one thing that held them up ---The American
Nick put it best when he said, ¨ 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.” There were many people to blame for the tragic ending of The Great Gatsby but the one who had possibly some of the most responsibility is Daisy. Daisy’s materialistic attitude and her ditziness and her dishonesty toward Gatsby and Tom contributed immensely to the outcome of the book. Her irresponsible and childish behavior indeed led to the great tragedy of The Great Gatsby. One of Daisy’s failing traits is her materialistic attitude.
Daisy seemed really nice and pretty and was the goal of Gatsby to get, but turns out she's not as great and Gatsby imagined her being, represents the false sense of glory people see in the American Dream. This proved in chapter 5, page 93, "Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
