Jay Gatsby's Death

F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby contains many people and events that provoked the death of the protagonist, Jay Gatsby. The events that led to the death of Gatsby kept escalating, and eventually it took Jay; however, Daisy was the largest contributor. On the other hand, George is the one who murdered Gatsby. Although George is the one who pulled the trigger on Gatsby, Daisy could not choose between Gatsby and Tom, and she ran over Myrtle which led to Gatsby’s death. One occurrence that led to Gatsby‘s downfall is when Daisy could not choose between Gatsby and Tom. Jay Gatsby cannot abide Daisy’s love for Tom, and he wants her to be all to himself. After spending another afternoon with Daisy, Gatsby became love-crazy and began making up stories to compensate for his lost time with her.

“she loved [Tom] for a minute... [but] loved him more” now and is unhappy in her marriage (Fitzgerald 117). Daisy was playing both Jay and Tom, which drove Gatsby insane, forcing him to conjure up narratives and, inevitably, make reckless decisions. Furthermore, Gatsby exerts hardship on acquiescent Daisy, and she carries out an extremely costly mistake. Daisy found herself compelled by the mysterious millionaire to admit to Tom that she had never loved him. Additionally, Jay pressured Daisy into saying to Tom that she “never loved him," even though it was a lie (Fitzgerald 101). Daisy was unable to genuinely choose either Tom and Jay; this wrecked Jay given that he knew he would never be able to obtain the young woman as long as Tom was there. Moreover, Daisy made a mistake by having a side affair with Gatsby because it hurt her relationship with her husband, and Gatsby. Yet another Daisy-led event helped trigger Gatsby's demise by motivating George's desire to murder Gatsby. Myrtle's horrifying death was the gossip of the town that night, and Gatsby was the one accused for her