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Why Is The Great Gatsby Dead

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Gatsby is Dead? Who even is he? The Bill!”, has made Gatsby one of the richest people in New York. But how do we know that they belong to Gatsby? Well, if you walk in to “Dip The Bill!”, you will notice that the letters “J.G.” are located on almost every single furniture. Gatsby is a bootlegger, but if he was born into the wealth, why would he have to bootleg. After the police found out about Gatsby’s past, it all started to make sense. He was born to a poor family with a name “James Gatz”, he then left his parents and lived with a sailor who taught him everything he needed to know. That is how he became such a charming man. After he met a girl he fell in love with he got sent of to Europe to fight in the World War. After he came back he started to bootleg, because his girl of dreams married Tom Buchanan. The Dead Guy …show more content…

But looking into some of the information about the murderer, we found out that he owned a run down auto shop at the edge of the Valley Of Ashes. The day before he murdered Gatsby, his wife was fatally hit by a speeding yellow car. The yellow car belongs to Tom Buchanan but that day it was used by Gatsby and someone else on board with him. Apparently, Gatsby was intoxicated and hit the women so hard she died, without stopping he continued to drive off. By joining the dots, it is clear that George (the guy whose wife was hit by Gatsby) wanted revenge for his wife's death. So this rumour has been disproven or maybe not since we can not track his exact life down, we wouldn't know if he

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He has gone through serious lengths to remove himself from certain parts of his past so as to keep up an image that will afford him the future he wants in a world of little opportunity to him. He changes his name from James Gatz to differentiate himself and give himself a more white name “at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career,”(98). Another prime piece of evidence is the method through which Gatsby achieved his fortune. The bootlegging business he was involved with under the facade of a pharmaceutical business can easily be interpreted as symbolic as him having a facade to hide who he truly is. His business with Wolfshiem made him rich as much as hiding his race

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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).

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