The Great Gatsby Research Paper

F.S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby contains many people and events that triggered the death of the protagonist, Jay Gatsby. The death of Jay Gatsby is like a snowball because it keeps adding up and eventually it took Jay. However, Daisy was the biggest contributor to the snowball. On the other hand, George is the one who murdered Gatsby. Although George is the one who physically Gatsby, it was Daisy who could not choose between Gatsby and Tom, and Daisy who ran over Myrtle that led to Gatsby’s death. An event that led to Gatsby‘s downfall is when Daisy cannot choose between Gatsby and Tom. Jay Gatsby cannot stand that Daisy loved Tom, and he wanted her all to himself. The aftermath of spending another afternoon with Daisy drove Gatsby love-crazy,

This tremendously affected Jay, because he knew as long as Tom was there, he would not be able to get the girl. Another event led by Daisy caused the downfall of Gatsby because it motivated George’s intent to murder Gatsby. Myrtle's tragic death was the talk of the town that night, and Gatsby was the one framed for her murder. The blame only fell upon Gatsby because it was his car and Daisy, the one driving the “death car” did not speak up for Jay (Fitzgerald 105). If George would have known that Daisy was the one driving, then he would not have killed anyone because Tom helps his business. Believing Gatsby is the one to blame, George Wilson takes revenge for the death of his wife. While getting ready to swim, Jay Gatsby is met with a tragic surprise. George Wilson snuck up behind Gatsby and the “Chauffeur heard the shots”, George had killed Jay and himself (Fitzgerald 124). The holocaust of deaths, including Jay, was a domino effect of Daisy not admitting to the police that she was the one who killed Myrtle. The author also writes that George Wilson could be responsible for Gatsby’s death because he physically killed Gatsby. Myrtle did not care for George, and she used him to get her as many things as she wanted. All of George’s choices were based around Myrtle because “he was his wife’s man” and not his own (Fitzgerald 105). This foreshadows that his choice of murdering Gatsby was because he lived for his ludicrous wife. Comparingly, if Wilson had looked