The Great Gatsby Morality Quotes

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald screwed morality is evident throughout the chapters five and six. Many characters in the novel depicted morality, however, most if not all twisted the morality to better accompany their needs. To begin, one of the characters that demonstrated screwed morality constantly would be Tom Buchanan. Throughout the novel, Tom Buchanan can be viewed as an antagonist due to the fact, he cheated on Daisy, his wife, with Myrtle Wilson. Screwed morality was evident in the quote,“ He frowned. ‘I wonder where in the devil he met Daisy. By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.’” (Fitzgerald, 100) Here one

Morally, it would have been right for Tom to leave Myrtle alone, since she is married and if he wanted to be with Myrtle he should have got a divorce instead of playing with two lives. Even though, Tom may seem crazy he is not fully a lunatic about Myrtle because he recognized if he married her his superiority will drain. Ella Kaye is another character in The Great Gatsby that screwed morality. Ella Kaye was the mistress of Dan Cody. Screwed morality was evident in the quote “The none too savoury ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in yacht, were common property of the turgid journalism of 1920” (Fitzgerald, 96 ). Ella Kaye screwed morality as she disguised her inner satan and acted to love Dan Cody to capture all the wealth that he settled on. Ella Kaye wanted to benefit from Cody’s money, which was why she pretended to love him and became his mistress. Once she got what she was looking for she killed Dan Cody, which Jay Gatsby suspected from the beginning. The right thing for her to do was to love Dan Cody for who he truly was instead of loving his