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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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