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Tom Buchanan's Death In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The 20th century was known as the “Roaring Twenties” for America. The wages grew by 33 percent and people had more money to spend on leisure activities. For this reason the author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his book called The Great Gatsby. The novel is about a man named Jay Gatsby who grew up poor but came into a lot of money after he was in the Army.
Before Gatsby went into the army, he met his first love Daisy Buchanan, While Gatsby was away at in the war, Daisy married a guy named Tom Buchanan. When Gatsby returns from the War, ends up buying a house across the bay from Daisy to win her love back, In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the Buchanans are most responsible for Gatsby's death, as they show how carelessness can …show more content…

This made them believe they were better than everyone else, entitled to everything and anything Nick Carraway is Daisy's second cousin and Gatsby's new neighbor, Nick went to visit Tom and Daisy house for lunch. While Tom is talking to Nick he says “ I've got a nice place here”” ( Buchanan 12).
Tom Buchanan has always had more money than anyone that he has known. With this, Tom has an attitude throughout the book that just because he has money, he is better than anyone else. Tom likes to brag that he lives in the well established city of West Egg. Despite the fact that Daisy is Nick's cousin Tom he invites him to the Valley Of Ashes to meet his mistress. Nick states on his way to the Valley Of Ashes “ Though I was carious to see her I had no desire to meet her---but i did” ( Carraway 28). Even though Nick didn't want to go with Tom he ends up going anyways because Tom pressures him to …show more content…

With Daisy confused about who she really loved, Gatsby pressure Daisy into telling Tom that “Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too.” ( Buchanan 261). While Gatsby's living in his imagination”,he doesn't realize that Daisy is in love with Tom as well. Therefore conflict begins to happen with Tom and Gatsby,which overwhelms Daisy, Daisy ends up driving Gatsby's car to take some of the stress away but in the end it create more stress. “"Yes," he said after a moment, "but of course I'll say I was. You see, when we left New York she was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive – and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way. It all happened in a minute, but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew. Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, Daisy lost her nerve and turned back. “The second my hand reached the wheel I felt the shock – it must have killed her instantly”(Carraway 396-398). Daisy and Gatsby were driving along when Myrtle jumped out in the road thinking it was Tom Buchanan hoping he would stop for her but there was no time for stopping, Gatsby decided to immediately take the blame for Daisy. Tom

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