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Who Was The Most Responsible For Gatsby's Death

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In the book The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby loses his life to Wilson. Mr. Gatsby is killed because Tom Buchanan told Wilson that Gatsby was the one driving the car when Myrtle his wife was struck by the car. It was Gatsby’s, but he wasn’t the one driving, the one driving was Daisy. Wilson believes that Gatsby is the one who hit his wife with the car. George may have killed Gatsby, but the other characters had their part in his death. Jay himself had part in his own death because he was trying very hard to get Daisy back, but he didn’t realize that while he was gone for those 5 years after the war she had fell in love with another man and they had got married. Putting himself in between Tom and Daisy's marriage, Gatsby makes an enemy out of Tom. He had an unrealistic idea that he could somehow win Daisy back after all those years. When Jay got to see Daisy again he kept pursuing her as if she was not married and in love with Tom Buchanan. Nick stated "'You can't repeat the past.' 'Can't repeat the past?' he [Gatsby] cried …show more content…

Tom's character in the book is seen as arrogant, cold and forceful throughout the story. When Tom found out about the secret affair between Daisy and Gatsby, he immediately despised him. Tom despised daisy for having an affair with Gatsby, he was carelessly having an affair with another woman while married. Tom learns that the car that struck Myrtle matches Gatsby's in description, Tom told Wilson who had owned the car, knowing Daisy was truly responsible for killing Myrtle. Tom despised Gatsby, so he would do anything to have the people of the city turn against him and eventually have Daisy do the same. "What if I did tell him [Wilson]? That fellow had it coming to him [Gatsby].... He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car" (Fitzgerald 178). Tom may have not been fully responsible for Gatsby’s death, but he sure did play a big part in

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His feelings towards Gatsby were negative and full of hate, so he set the target on him when he told Wilson that it was a yellow car who had killed his wife and that he was a friend of the person who owned it. Which also leads to the death of George Wilson since it drives him to insanity and sets him on a mission to go and find that yellow car which didn’t take him that long. Since Tom was the real lover of Myrtle. He was the one driving the yellow car earlier

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In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy Buchanan are seen as the ones who caused Jay Gatsby's death. Nick Carraway was the only one who could’ve actually saved Jay Gatsby’s life. He never informed his cousin that Tom Buchanan was cheating on her and he should’ve tried a bit harder when he asked Gatsby to leave town. Nick was the cause of Jay Gatsby’s death.

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At the end of the novel George Wilson is searching for the car that ran over his wife Myrtle, George suspects that the owner was the one who had an affair with his George asks Tom about the yellow car because he was seen in it earlier “He was crazy enough to kill me if i hadn’t told him who owned the car.” (Fitzgerald 178). With little resistance Tom tells george that gatsby is the owner of the car knowing that george is ready to kill gatsby Tom does nothing to stop him because it does not concern him he just looks the other way and lets the heinous crime

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Jay Gatsby was obsessed with Tom’s wife Daisy. Before Jay went to war and Tom met Daisy Jay and Daisy dated and intended on getting married. Sadly Jay was out of the country longer than expected and Daisy met and married Tom Buchanan. If Tom loses all of his money he will be nothing. Tom may have gone to a good college but he has no workplace experience and his polo career isn't going to be going anywhere due to his body size and his skill.

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This happens because in a panic Daisy and Jay drive back from the city and run down a woman who ends up dead. When her husband questions the culprit, Tom volunteers information about the seen car that killed her. He alerts the poor man that Jay Gatsby is responsible for his wife’s death. The ending represents the flaws in the characters. Gatsby, forever chasing the past, obviously hindered.

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Tom is also responsible for Jay Gatsby's death due to the lies he told to Mr. Wilson informing him of Gatsby’s responsibility in his wife's death. Although Mr. Wilson is legally responsible for the death of Jay Gatsby, Gatsby himself is morally responsible for his own death. This is due to Gatsby living in the past in hopes of rekindling his relationship with Daisy. Gatsby addresses Tom and Daisy Buchanan during a vehement argument, “ And what’s more I love Daisy.

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In F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby”, the character George Wilson shoots Gatsby dead. But who is really to blame for his demise? Daisy Buchanan is the real person to blame because she lead gatsby to believe she would leave Tom for him and because she should have admitted to her mistakes. Daisy Buchanan plays her share in the blame for Jay Gatsby’s death because of the way she treated Gatsby. Daisy leads Gatsby on by letting him think she was gonna leave her husband while they run away together “... she realized at last what she was doing - and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all” (132).

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The most shocking moment in the novel The Great Gatsby was ultimately when George Wilson snuck into Gatsby’s backyard and shot him in the back, sending him falling into his pool. If you were to ask a student who was responsible for the murder of Jay Gatsby, they would respond with the answer “George Wilson”. However, simply putting the word “morally” at the front of that question, you can now be provided with several different answers. Any main character in the novel The Great Gatsby, including Nick, Daisy, Tom, or Gatsby himself can be seen as morally responsible for the death of Jay Gatsby besides George Wilson. How would you feel if the woman you worked hard to be with and were deeply in love with was the one morally responsible for your death?

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“Revenge is barren if itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair” (Friedrich Schiller). When a woman wrongs a man, the man does not go after the woman, he goes after the man she wronged him with. This is exactly what lead Jay Gatsby to the grave. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, three men are responsible for the inevitable death of Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, the man who whispered his name, George Wilson, the man behind the gun, and Jay Gatsby himself, the man lost in his own dream. Driven by his own thought of superiority, Tom whispered the name to the man behind the gun.

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Gatsby uses the last five years of his life trying to achieve his one goal of obtaining Daisy as his wife and spending the rest of his life with her, but what happens to him instead is unexpected and undeserved. Jay Gatsby got shot and killed by George Wilson. Gatsby did not sleep with Myrtle, he is an honorable man and would not sleep with another man’s wife. Gatsby also did not kill Myrtle, if he did he would have stopped the car and not just kept driving. Daisy did not talk to Gatsby ever again after the accident.

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In my opinion, Tom is most responsible for Gatsby’s death. I believe that Tom is most responsible because Tom forgot to tell George that Daisy was the driver of Gatsby’s car the night Myrtle was hit by it. Tom forgot to tell George that because him and Daisy were plotting this out. I could tell something was up when Nick refers that “Tom and Daisy talking in the house(146). I also think that Daisy is a little bit responsible because she took on some bad morals when she hit Myrtle because she could have stopped the car after she hit Myrtle.

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In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby was murdered by George Wilson Husband of Myrtle. In the court of law there’s only one person who was responsible and guilty for the murder of Jay Gatsby. Although in the eyes of god there was more than one person responsible for the murder or had the ability to stop the outcome of the murder. Weather it was Tom being honest about his affair, Daisy doing the right thing and stopping during the accident or Jay Gatsby himself by taking control of the situation and doing what was good for both Daisy and himself instead of just what 's best for Daisy. Tom, Myrtle, Daisy, and Gatsby were selfish and self centered leading them to become Morally responsible for the death of Jay Gatsby.

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Harry S. Truman once said, “Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny”. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is killed by George Wilson who mistakenly believes that Gatsby Murdered his wife, Myrtle. Jay Gatsby is welcoming, optimistic and innocent of murdering Myrtle Wilson. Because Gatsby is generous, romantic and innocent, he definitely did not deserve his horrible fate. With Gatsby’s fate being two-sided, readers will better understand why Jay Gatsby did not deserve his fate.

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As seen in many headlines, Jay Gatsby was tragically murdered by George Wilson after a misconception that Gatsby killed Mr. Wilson’s wife, Myrtle Wilson, in a car accident and also because he believed they were having an affair; however, Gatsby was not having an affair with Mrs. Wilson, but instead with Daisy Buchanan. Not pertaining to the details, it was obvious that Daisy and Gatsby had been deeply in love. Rumors say that after Gatsby dies, Daisy Buchanan left town with her husband, Tom. Unhappily, Daisy failed to endure without Gatsby and she started to seek ways to communicate with

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(Fitzgerald 224). He's really care about Daisy’s feeling, he loved Daisy so much and he thought that Daisy’s feeling is important than everything. But Tom told Wilson it is Gatsby killed his wife and Wilson had a gun killed Gatsby in his house when Gatsby in the swimming pool. But the gardener saw Wilson’s body in the grass. There just three car attend the funeral and one of them are motor hearse.

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