The Great Gatsby Death Essay

In The Great Gatsby, The Death of Gatsby should have been different to fit the character preferably. In the book, Gatsby is described and made out to be a mysterious character that wasn't who he said he was. The character development of Gatsby was quite amazing and the way the character, Gatsby, lets out this genuine feeling of disillusionment and the spiralization of a man who just wanted the past to come back was grand. However, there was one trouble with the character Gatsby that should have been fixed, his death. His death was first portrayed on page 140 when he was found dead in the pool by a singular gunshot, let off by Wilson. “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete”.His death in the book felt unfinished, bland, and not fitting to what the character, Gatsby was. It might have been that the death has felt unfinished due to the fact that Gatsby himself felt unfinished, the restless thought of getting with Daisy, and never being able to make those thoughts come true. Gatsby’s death by getting shot was something that was not enjoyable, not due to the fact that he died, but it was due to the fact that it would have been more appealing or more effective if the death was something that suited the character more.

As well, another sentence that described his death was “ There was a faint, barely, perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way onwards the drain at the other” (pg