Examples Of Certainty In The Great Gatsby

Myrtle is married to George Wilson, an old, boring man. Tom does not try very hard to hide his affair, except from his wife. He takes Myrtle out and shows her off to his friends, including Nick. Daisy, knowing of her husband’s affair without telling him, feels no guilt in her affair with Gatsby. The book comes to a climax when Gatsby attends a get together with Tom, Daisy, Nick, and Jordan in New York.

When Daisy drives off with Gatsby in the car, Daisy accidentally hits a woman running into the street. That woman is identified as Myrtle, Tom’s secret lover and Geroge’s wife. Tom, upset, tells George misleading information that results in George killing Gatsby and then shooting himself. Geroge never realizes Daisy is the driver and Tom was the man who Myrtle was having an affair with. Another factor in Gatsby’s demise was the corrupt society he strived to be a part of.

Gastby’s dishonesty toward Myrtle's death was the reason that he died. He had told Tom that he was the one driving the car that hit Myrtle, not Daisy. “Was Daisy driving…but of course I'll say I was” (89). Gatsby was trying to protect Daisy, but when Tom told Wilson what happened Wilson shot Gatsby out of anger. Gatsby’s lies had caused so much destruction that Tom and Daisy decided to escape from all their problems–and they disappeared at the end of the novel.

Myrtle’s husband comes for revenge and kills Tom, who sacrifices himself to save Daisy, who had been driving the car. By this time Daisy and her husband Tom had already fled the state and did not return to attend Gatsby’s funeral. “The Great Gatsby” represents a time of possibilities and freedom. But as Gatsby discovers, romantic visions of the past rarely contain real truth. Although the novel ends with a section about the nature of people, Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy serves as a warning against following the same

One thing that destroyed people in the Great Gatsby is love. It confused people, even when they tried ignore it. They couldn’t fully run away from it. Daisy and Gatsby had been in love, before Gatsby had to go to war and leave her. Daisy being away from Gatsby, got tired of waiting and married Tom.

As Tom and Gatsby fight over Daisy’s love, she begins to realize the damage she has done and “with every word she [is] drawing further and further into herself, so he [gives] that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon [slips] away, trying to touch what [is] no longer tangible” (Fitzgerald 134). She chooses her husband and begins to tear Gatsby’s hope of them being together again apart. Even though he put so much effort into winning her over, she still chose the safe option: keeping her life the same and spending it with her husband and child. Due to the dilemma of a car crash late that evening, Gatsby is blamed for the death of a girl, Myrtle, who is Tom’s mistress. Tom tells Myrtle’s real husband, Wilson, that Gatsby was driving the car that hit her.

The headspace people live in determines their ways of living; a positive mindset typically results in positively viewing life. However, when one removes themself from real life and creates a false world to live in ignorantly, their mindset becomes negative because reality will never live up to their false reality. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates that, when people create a fantasy in their heads, they lose sight of reality and subsequently act without regard to themselves and the people around them. Living in a fantasy can cause the sight of reality to be lost. Throughout the book, Fitzgerald depicts Jay Gatsby as wanting something he cannot have; Daisy.

but so is Myrtle's husband, on the hunt trying to find who killed his wife. Tom knows that Gatsby and Daisy had the car, Tom tells Gatsby. The next day it seems to all unfold. Nick goes to see Gatsby and he sees him dead in the pool. In shock he and the gardener pull him out and come across Myrtle’s husband dead as well.

Later, Daisy and Gatsby leave after coming clean to Tom and they drive off in Gatsby’s car, about to pass where Myrtle lives. Myrtle is currently in a fight with her husband because he finds out about the cheating. She views what she thinks is Tom’s car coming to save her, but it is not him. She runs out into the street, “Her life (is) violently extinguished,”(137) She is killed instantly.

The tragedy of the book is when Gatsby indirectly partakes in the murder of Myrtle Wilson. Gatsby was driving home with Daisy following the aftermath of an intense argument about love. Gatsby’s response to Tom, Daisy’s husband, frightened Daisy to the point where she panicked. She drove home with him, and in the heat of the moment, they ran over and killed Myrtle. Gatsby’s idea that he could get together with a married woman and settle it brought fatal consequences to the story.

As Gatsby proclaims that, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you. "(Fitzgerald 109) This was Gatsby’s true dream for Daisy to love him fully, to forget Tom, and for the two of them to go back in time and live their lives together. However, this never happens as Daisy just cannot leave Tom and her child. Just as Gatsby expects some change of heart from Daisy, he is killed.

Instead of accepting the truth about the ones we care for it is easier to make your own illusion of that person. This idea is shown through the relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Over the summer in which the novel is set, Nick helps reunite Gatsby with his long-lost, perfect love, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is characterized as elegant and charming, but also shallow. So, in the case of Daisy and Gatsby “there must have been moments… when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (Fitzgerald 76).

“Daisy is responsible for the hit-and-run, but she never tells Tom how Myrtle was killed. Gatsby immediately offers to take responsibility for the accident, and Daisy allows him to do so”(Nagel #6). To maintain her perfect reputation and appearance, Daisy lets Gatsby take the blame for the murder. His love for her is so robust that he would do anything for her.

Myrtle was killed by Gatsby's car. She thought that Tom was driving the car but earlier, Tom and Gatsby exchanged cars while in New York so that Tom could go to town. Myrtle saw Tom driving the car, and assumed it was his. Later on, Myrtle ran out into the street to try and catch Tom’s attention. Daisy was the one driving Gatsby's car at this point, and was upset due to the earlier events that she wasn’t able to handle the vehicle in a way in which she knew.

While Daisy was driving home with Gatsby in his car, Daisy stuck and killed Myrtle Wilson because of Daisy's careless and reckless driving. "The 'death car' as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, then disappeared around the next bend."(p.137) Daisy was not strong enough to take the responsibility for herself as she never feels guilt or confesses that she was the one driving the car that killed Myrtle. Therefore, Tom misleads George Wilson by implying that Myrtle was Gatsby's mistress and that Gatsby was responsible for her death. Thus Tom gets Gatsby killed.