The Great Gastby

The end of chapter eight details the tragic events that ended Gatsby’s life. George Wilson, manipulated by Tom, kills Gatsby to seek justice. News spread about Gatsby’s death which caused a lot of traffic at his house; they weren’t people that knew him from a personal level, but were journalists, photographers, police officers and other media positions. Everyone except Nick believed Gatsby was the killer of Myrtle and Wilson was “deranged by grief” (Fitzgerald, 164). Further investigation ended and then the funeral took place. Gatsby’s body demanded Nick to call everyone that regularly attended the party to join him as he couldn’t do it alone: “Look here, old sport, you’ve got to get somebody for me. You’ve got to try hard. I can’t go through this alone.” (Fitzgerald, 166) No one from the

Another drastic situation created by Daisy arises. However, she does not have to deal with the consequences of it. Myrtle’s husband sees Gatsby in the car, and makes the assumption that he was the one having an affair with Myrtle, which is why she would run into the street to leave her husband and be with the man in the car. Instead of owning up to her mistake, Daisy allows Gatsby to willingly take the blame for Myrtle’s death. When Nick asks if Daisy was driving the car, he replies “‘Yes, but of course I’ll say I was’” (Fitzgerald 137). This causes George Wilson to kill Gatsby, an innocent man, because of the assumption that he was the one who killed Myrtle and had an affair with her. Through all this, Daisy never confessed to being the person behind the wheel of the car and Tom never confessed to being the man who Myrtle was a mistress to. After this incident, Daisy and Tom packed their bags and moved to the Midwest, avoiding the problems they created yet

Even though Daisy knew Tom was cheating on her, she didn’t act like it bothered her that much. She wanted to keep her marital status. Daisy knew about Myrtle Wilson. She knew that everyone else also knew about Tom and Myrtle, but she didn’t let anyone ruin her marriage. Daisy could’ve easily had anyone she wanted. She could’ve had a better life with someone that pays all their attention to her, not someone else. She would’ve rather been considered a fool than be a

Myrtle Wilson, the wife of George, and the lover of Tom Buchanan, is brutally murdered toward the end of the novel. After an uncivilized afternoon in New York, Daisy and Gatsby head swiftly back to East Egg. Gatsby explains to Nick, “It all happened in a minute, but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew” (Fitzgerald 109). Myrtle ran out toward the car looking for Tom but sadly for her it is not him. Many know about Tom’s affair, but not with whom he is having it, especially Daisy. Daisy never slows the car down, and she never realizes who she hits. This shows that Daisy is oblivious to Myrtles existence. Myrtle is sleeping with her husband, she ruins their marriage, and Daisy kills her. The irony exists in this because Daisy actually saves her marriage by killing

The love between Daisy and Tom is clearly purchased love. As readers, we would not even define their relationship as love, more a social status. When relating Daisy and Tom's relationship to Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship

Daisy and Tom were not interested in his parties. When Daisy’s cousin, Nick, moves to the home next to Gatsby, it opens up a whole new door. Gatsby gets the help of Nick to make them cross paths again. Their first reunion in five years changed Gatsby, “he literally glowed; without a word or gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the room (Fitzgerald, 94).” But his goal would never be fulfilled. Upon asking Daisy to proclaim her love to him in front of Tom but she can’t. Diasy loves Tom and she loved Gatsby but that’s just the point, the past is the past and can’t be relived. Gatsby never got another chance to winning Daisy over. After everything cooled down Gatsby began waiting for Daisy to call him, but that would never happen. He was shot a killed at is mansion before he ever got to talk to Daisy

“Is Tom most responsible for Gatsby’s death? Daisy? Myrtle? Gatsby himself? Give reasons why or why not each character is implicated in the murder.”

To begin, Gatsby worked as hard as he could to be good enough for Daisy throughout the book. To demonstrate the commitment Gatsby has to find Daisy again, he creates such enormous parties hoping his love would be there. Gatsby invites numerous amounts of people to his festivities, but it is all just a stent to win Daisy over. Specifically, Gatsby conveys this when Jordan exclaims, “I think he expects Daisy to stroll by one day through a party.”() All Gatsby wants is a chance to at least see her; making the end of the book extremely sad because Daisy acts as if she does not know Gatsby. Furthermore, to display the love Gatsby has for Daisy, he begs Nick to tell Daisy to come to his house. He is asking Nick to be the messenger in essence. Therefore,

     Once he returned from abroad, it did not take long for Gatsby to attempt this. He knew that Daisy was a shallow woman, easily overwhelmed by material items, and thus the best way for him to gain her affection was to flaunt his wealth (which he did by throwing lavish parties). With Nick’s help, Gatsby and Daisy were reunited and Gatsby, given another chance to show off his wealth and win her back. He used this meeting to show Daisy what he had become. She was amazed by the extravagance of his house and when he threw his imported shirts around the room, she began to cry because she realized that she had missed out on much of his life. It was at this moment, when the dream that he had strived for was right in front of him, that he realized that Daisy was not as perfect as he remembered her. This was clearly evident to Nick who thought “there must have been moments […] when Daisy fell short of his dreams – not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything” (101). At this point, it becomes apparent that Gatsby’s dream can no longer be fully achieved; yet it is being achieved because he is finally back with Daisy, even though she is still with Tom.

133). Daisy had to express to Tom that she had loved him in the past

            While Daisy did not know Myrtle personally, there is a very good possibility that she knew Tom was having an affair with her.  She was well aware of Tom's past behavior, and she made no attempts to deny it.  She simply accepted it because she had no other choice.  After spending the day in New York with the others, she was obviously upset and tense.  The day had taxed her to the limit.  Gatsby had demanded too much of her, and she just was not strong enough to endure any further argument.  She chose to drive him back to East Egg in an attempt to calm her nerves.  When they passed Wilson's garage, Myrtle ran into the street toward Gatsby's car, thinking it belonged to Tom.  According to Gatsby, Daisy turned the wheel toward the oncoming car in the other lane, but she lost her nerve and hit

“She never loved you, do you hear he cried. She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me (Fitzgerald 139)”. Tom is married to Daisy (Lisca). Even though daisy is marring Tom, Daisy has feeling for Gatsby (Lisca). Tom and Daisy relationship is wrong because they are married. People may say that Tom and Daisy does not love each other. When it was

In the novel (The Great Gatsby) By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby’s death was caused from three primary people. The most crucial person for Gatsby’s death would be George Wilson, who was prompted by two other conspirators, Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Deceit and coercion both play a role in Gatsby’s tragic death. Tom Buchanan was a very important character that helped contribute to Gatsby’s death. Tom had always had a hatred for Gatsby, especially when Daisy confided in her love to Gatsby.

he didn’t get to be together with Daisy, he got killed in the end and

When the married couple got back from their honeymoon Baker saw them and she said “I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband.” ( Fitzgerald 76 ) They were happy with each other even after they had child. Something changed throughout time though, and Tom started to see his mistress Myrtle. Daisy decides not do do anything about it because she knows it is not what women of her time were supposed to do; she was just supposed to turn the other