Internal Reasons For The Great Gatsby

However, to be part of the American dream, and the right social class it was almost impossible to create a perfect 'glittering surface ' that would make you a part of this materialistic society. Gatsby, constantly working on his 'glittering surface ' to become a part of this society, tries to perfect the elements of his American dream, which included financial success, material acquisitions, proper self-image, and social status. The most fashionable financial situation is "old money", meaning that you have been born into a large wealth and therefore do not need to work to support yourself. Tom and Daisy are in this classification, along with the rest of fashionable East Egg. Daisy was born into a life of wealth and privilege in Louisville and has no reason to trouble herself in anything involving the slightest bit of work. This almost makes it seem as her life is void of meaning, "What 'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?" Gatsby, on the other hand is the complete contrast of this. He is in the less fashionable, but certainly tolerable "new money" situation of West Egg. He has worked to acquire his wealth , even if he has done it through illegal means, "A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know." He has built up a great wealth from nothing, as he was born into a common life, with nothing but a dream, or an

Gatsby was murdered by Wilson, because he thought that Gatsby was the one that hit his wife and killed her. Tom is a main contributor to Gatsby’s death because Myrtle was his mistress. Tom was the one that suggested he drive Gatsby’s car to town with Jordan and Nick. Myrtle saw them that day and Nick noticed “her eyes, [which became] wide with jealous terror were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife” (125). On the way back home, Gatsby and Daisy were driving the yellow car, which was the car that Tom was driving earlier. Myrtle ran out in front of the car as if “she wanted to speak to [them], [thinking they] were somebody she knew” (143). She ran thinking that it was Tom and that he would stop but, it wasn’t.

The last act of violence, when Gatsby is murdered, leaves an important impression on the reader and the novel. George Wilson is devastated by his wife’s death and thinks that God wants him to kill the person who is responsible for it. Naturally, he went to the Buchanan’s to get some answers because it was their car. Tom was in a fragile state because he truly loved Myrtle, and directed George to Gatsby. Gatsby did not kill anybody but he paid the price for it. He was laying in his extravagant pool and saw “that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees (Fitzgerald, 172).” First George shot Gatsby, then he shot himself and ended two innocent lives. It was because Gatsby constantly chased one single dream his whole life that the scene of violence had to happen. Daisy was not good for him, and dreams keep getting pushed farther and farther

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was born into a life of poverty and as he grew up he became more aware of the possibility of a better life. He created fantasies that he was too good for his modest life and that his parents weren’t his own. When he met Daisy, a pretty upper class girl, his life revolved around her and he became obsessed with her carefree lifestyle. Gatsby’s desire to become good enough for Daisy and her parents is what motivates him to become a wealthy, immoral person who is perceived as being sophisticated.

Significance: If Gatsby had been willing to see the signs and listen to Nick, his death would have been avoided. Gatsby’s tragic flaw is what ultimately lead to his untimely death.

The story The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes you through the life of the protagonist of the novel, Jay Gatsby, who is shot to death in the end. Who was really the reason for Gatsby’s death? There are many of reasons that lead up to Gatsby’s death and several people who are considered to have caused it. Although George Wilson physically killed him, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby himself all take part in the death. Tom’s anger, Daisy’s carelessness, and Gatsby’s idea of the American Dream all contribute to his death in the end.

To understand the nature of Gatsby’s death, first you must know the circumstances that precede it. Myrtle, Mr. Wilson’s wife, was run over by Gatsby’s car, which Daisy was driving. Driven by vengeance and the mistaken belief that Gatsby had killed Myrtle, Mr. Wilson proceeded to murder Gatsby and then himself.

We tend to see the past and the present repeating themselves with standards lower than what is respectable for a healthy society. Fredrick Millet states, “American idealism and spirituality have been corrupted by material possessions and wealth. In chasing the American Dream, we tend to loose sight of what is actually important instead we focus on what we may never get. Wealth can consume poor lives just as much as wealthy ones. In the story, Gatsby has a dream and he has held onto it. It starts to corrupt him and take over his life. His life is evidence of a moral decay of trying to accomplish the so-called American

Ever since he was a boy his dream was to become rich, he had no other ambitions, he looked down on his parents (who were poor farmers); “His imagination had never really accepted them as his parents” (Fitzgerald 98). Furthermore, he believed in some twisted way that he was the son of God ; “Sprang from his platonic vision of himself. He was the son of God” (Fitzgerald 98) . When he is jobless and wandering the beaches, he sees a yacht , and the yacht belongs to Dan Cody a very wealthy old man. James “Jay” Gatsby sees this as an opportunity to leave behind his jobless and poor past and to start fresh, and this is the reason why he decides to warn him and save him, because he knew that if he did he would certainly receive a job and strike rich. Similar to Tom, he believed that if he showed Daisy his wealth and how much he really had that she’d run to him arms wide open, leaving Tom behind. Gatsby has a twisted view on his wealth and it makes him think much higher of

Gatsby himself is the fifth person to blame for his death. If he was not trying to restore his old relationship with Daisy then Tom would not want to get revenge on him. Another reason that Gatsby is responsible for his own death is that forgot everything except Daisy. He did not think about anything except Daisy. He also should not have kept driving after Daisy hit Myrtle. After he pulled the brake he could have gone back to see if Myrtle was alive and to get help for her, “I tried to make her stop but she couldn’t so I pulled on the emergency brake. Then she fell over into my lap and I drove on” (Fitzgerald 151) He only threw

Gatsby is responsible for his own regrettable ending because of his dishonesty and deception. He was dishonest about a lot of things. He lied about his job, his past, and does nothing to dismiss the wild rumors surrounding him. Two of these include that he was a German spy, and that he killed a man once. When they first met when Gatsby was as a poor soldier, he was dishonest to Daisy about his wealth as well. She said he acted ‘rich’, and he did not correct her. This leads to the whole misunderstanding and rage at the end of the novel when Jay is exposed by Tom for how he made his money. If he had been honest about how he came to be rich, then there would

Gatsby’s aspirations reflect the time period. The “Roaring Twenties”, as it is called, was a period of prosperity, and the Americans were obsessed with acquiring wealth, and thought that “those who have wealth should be splendid, happy people”

Gatsby had a huge part of his own downfall. He was seeking love and it was love that ended up being his downfall. Gatsby’s lust for Daisy caused him to do stupid things to be with her. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to

F. Scott Fitzgerald punishes Gatsby by being shot by George Wilson in his own pool at the end of Chapter 8. After trying to pursue Daisy’s heart he was never really himself, even if Daisy would have rejected Gatsby, would Gatsby have kept going “not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.”?(92) Nick also viewed him as someone with “a romantic readiness,”(10) His desires contributed to his character by making it slowly erode from the start. As all he could focus on was getting Daisy as he was deeply in love with her and started using the wealth he had to make that happen. Tom also wanted Gatsby to pay the price after falling in love with his wife by telling George it was Gatsby’s car that killed Myrtle. F Scott Fitzgerald wanted Gatsby to represent the American dream that failed and corrupted as he was wealthy and lived the luxurious life but even after hard work one slip up that could have a serious affect later on in life and in Gatsby’s case his life.

When it comes with the law, justice, and order to justify someone’s death; there is always a person who is the one to cause the death, in this case, Gatsby is the one who dies. However, his death was left uncertain because it’s uncertain on who caused his death. In The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald, the death of Gatsby and the responsibility that lead up till his demise is due to Gatsby’s entrapment in his dream world, Daisy’s Selfish wants for Gatsby’s possessions, and Tom’s perspective towards Gatsby.