The tragic death of Jay Gatsby near the end of the novel, The Great Gatsby, followed by an immense series of events throughout the entire novel. While George Wilson is the one who actually pulls the trigger of the firearm which causes Gatsby to take his last breath, Tom Buchanan was the one who orchestrated the events of Jay's death on the macro scale. In the penultimate chapter of the novel, Jay Gatsby's death occurs via pistol shot to the back. As George is the one who shot Jay, this could be seen as the most responsible for Jay's death. After the death of his wife, George is described as, "acting crazy" and "inquiring about a yellow car" (Fitzgerald, 123).
Everyone has moments where they desire to revisit the past- correct a mistake, relive the excitement, change what could have been. We all have moments like that. It might be a fleeting feeling or a consistently recurring thought, but seldom do we dedicate ourselves to the unattainable and changing times. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the plight of Jay Gatsby and his attempt to bring back the past is explored. He aggressively, or arguably, passionately fights to regain what once was.
The character James Gatz in the novel grows further away from his self-image which negatively impacted his relationship with other characters. In F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The Great Gatsby’, James Gatz created this separate identity known as Jay Gatsby, forcing himself to adopt this new persona and straying away from his original self. This is apparent when Jay regularly uses the phrase “Old sport,” which communicates the adoption of his new identity. Nick Carraway, the protagonist, characterises Gatsby as a mysterious individual, stating that ‘it is preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of man.’ Commenting on Gatsby’s unknown identity
In The Great Gatsby Jay was very wealthy and successful, he was a Yachtsman Soldier Entrepreneur Bootlegger. He grew up dirt poor and at about 27 he returned home to New York, and took advantage of Prohibition by making millions from bootlegging, and built connections with various gangsters such as Meyer Wolfsheim, who Gatsby claims is "the man who fixed the World 's Series back in 1919". In The Black Boy, Richard grew up poor too. Richards’ dad leaves him and his family at a young age, and his mother because the only Income in the house while they live in poverty and hunger. As he grew older he left Memphis, Tennessee to go to Chicago.
Jay Gatz is not the man he pretends to be “your wife doesn’t love you, she loves me”. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is a man that was born poor and lives a rich lifestyle. He became friends with Nick, and Jordan. Gatsby knew a lovely woman named Daisy and loved her but she was married to another man named Tom.
Jay Gatsby or James Gatz, as the readers learned his real name in chapter six, is a man of great delusions. Gatsby did not have the luxury of being born into a rich family, however, he desired that life and felt he was too good to be a meager farmer. Gatsby, plague by pride and delusions of grandeur, he went through life scraping to get by. He felt as if he was too good for anything that was not upper class, and sent his goal towards becoming the wealthy person he wanted to be. His obsessions in life drove him to make drastic decisions and his obsession with Daisy, once he realizes how impossible it is for him and Daisy to have the same life they did five years ago, will make Gatsby make drastic decisions just as he had done to become wealthy.
The question of whether someone dies or gets the girl is an important question that is often overlooked. Did Jay die because the author wanted him to; was it just the flow in the book with a recurring theme of mistrust and corruption? With every story, there's an ending, almost always with a death, especially if it's a romantic novel. This will be a mythological and psychoanalysis of why Fitzgerald chose this ending and why most romantic novels end with someone dying and someone getting the girl. It’s amazing that this ending came to such a surprise to anyone that reads it.
Acknowledged by historians, the roaring 20s was unequivocally involved in dramatic changes in economics, politics, and social behavior. American literature’s most famous murder is that of Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby, the other man in the narrator, Nick Carraway’s, cousin. Occurring in prohibition, Gatsby is murdered in his own home at the trigger finger of a car mechanic who mistakenly takes Gatsby as the man having an affair with his wife. Though his death was not a literal suicide, Jay Gatsby is responsible for his own death because of his lack of moral conviction, fanatical devotion, and corruption. Body 1 Body 2 Body 3 Ultimately, Gatsby ruined himself because of his lack of moral conviction, fanatical devotion, and corruption.
The chain of reactions that occurs in the West Egg and East Egg after the mysterious Jay Gatsby moves in next to Nick Caraway ends in the fatal shooting of Gatsby. The actions of Jay Gatsby throughout the summer of 1922 were those of an arrogant and obsessive man, and his untimely demise reminds the reader that consequences can be fatal. His selfish behavior and the obsession he holds for Daisy is a catalyst for a chain of events that ends with his murder. Although George Wilson pulled the trigger on Gatsby, Jay might as well have held a gun to his head instead. Wilson would not have decided to shoot Gatsby if not for the death of Myrtle, which stemmed from a long-lasting sequence of poor decisions on Gatsby's part.
The 1920s in New York were full of glamour, large parties, scandalous activities and avid drinkers. New York had become split into three main areas: West Egg, full of new up and coming millionaires, East Egg, made up of the old money; the people who had been wealthy for generations; and the valley of ashes, a place full of succumb, dirt and disgust. Many of the people who lived here were of poor descent and couldn't seem to move up in the world. In the book the Great Gatsby, written by F. S. Fitzgerald. Narrator Nick Carraway exposes the secrets behind the glitz and glamour.
In the well known book The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is known for being very mysterious and elusive; this is portrayed through implied tone and choices made which tells everyone around Jay to agree he’s very secretive. When the book starts, Mr. Gatsby is accused of killing people especially at the first party Nick, our narrator attended. Nick is made aware of this when another party attendee says, “I’ll bet he killed a man.” This is stated very much in the book and is attributed to the shroud of mystery around Mr. Gatsby. As you continue to read the text, you begin to realize this little by little because Nick, even though he is good friends with Mr. Gatsby, is sure to steer clear of Mr. Gatsby’s questionable choices.
As defined by Aristotle, “a tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction” (“Tragic Hero” 1). In The Great Gatsby, Great historical writers like Sophocles and the aforementioned Aristotle used this character archetype while manifesting their works to create characters that were both larger than life, but also were human. Like these dateless litterateurs, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses this timeless archetype to create the titular character Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald likens Gatsby to fellow tragic heros like Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Odysseus by describing him to be both a common man and larger than life. Furthermore, similar to other tragic heroes, Gatsby has a tremendous fall from grace.
and he wrote this book depicting its beauties and horrors. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, the moral downfall of society is evident in each of the three main characters. Jay Gatsby is the main character in the book The Great Gatsby. The early life of Gatsby resembles that of Fitzgerald’s because they both idolized wealth and also fell in love
In many pieces of fiction, the audience would generally focus on the main character but for The Great Gatsby, the side character, Jay Gatsby, is more interesting and entertaining than the main character for a variety of reasons. Jay Gatsby is an eccentric character whose mindset permanently affects his life in dismissive and outstanding ways. This American Dream is a way of living for him as he thinks it’s not interesting without certain prospects. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces Gatsby as a cause of all things that are happening due to his utopian view on life. This view has led to negative and positive consequences to occur in a lot of characters' lives because Gatsby won’t stop these thoughts unless they actually come to fruition.
Many of his actions and the impacts of them are selfish and have greatly negative reactions on many of the other characters. Gatsby can be seen as one of the main protagonists. Mostly due to his name being the title of the novel. But also because of his impact and attention within the story.
