Examples Of Who Is To Blame In The Great Gatsby

Nick is not going to be a good person for helping Gatsby have an affair with Tom’s wife Daisy. Tom doesn’t know that Nick is helping Gatsby so what he is doing is going unnoticed, but in general, the kind of favors Nick is doing for Gatsby does not make him a good person. Nick might think as a person he is just an innocent bystander but he is the whole reason everything happened the way it did, like the reunion of Gatsby and Daisy, the death of Gatsby, etc. Tom might not know Nick is all behind this meeting but to Tom, Nick is a reliable person an example of this is when Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, Nick is tagging along because Tom just assumes Nick is reliable proven in the quote on page 28, “There is always a halt there of at least a minute, and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan’s mistress.” At this point Tom knows Nick won’t tell otherwise this wouldn’t have

However, this belief is all his self-deception. At the middle of the novel, when Gatsby and Daisy have embarked on their affair, Nick describes Gatsby as “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy,” in which Nick confesses that Gatsby’s affection towards Daisy originate not only from the current form of Daisy but also his nostalgic feeling toward their past

Nick is stating that Gatsby is not taking into account that a woman just died due to Daisy’s negligent actions. He sees that gatsby's first priority was Daisy, not the condition of the woman. Daisy is Gatsby's dream, so he is being very selfish. The Buchanans and Gatsby have similar personality traits, they are all self motivated by personal

We see that Gatsby is very close to realizing his desire of being with Daisy is getting closer, but the foreshadowing suggests that his dream might not come true. Even before Daisy arrives, Gatsby is in a frenzy. When she arrives Gatsby and Nick talk in the kitchen because Gatsby is so uneasy, he says “This is a terrible mistake, a terrible, terrible mistake. ”(Fitzgerald 68). In this scene, Gatsby reveals his genuine self.

Gatsby is stuck in his phenomenon about himself and Daisy. Nick is very observant, he notices that Gatsby is thinking over what Nick had just said. Gatsby just wants to think about Daisy, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of him perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy,” (Fitzgerald 4 110). While Gatsby was thinking, Nick was also thinking about Gatsby and Daisy. He knows that Gatsby wants to get back with Daisy and Gatsby is in his reality trying to get her back.

Although he might not feel he is doing anything wrong, he is helping them cheat. He helps Daisy and Gatsby unite at his house, overlooking the immorality of it all. He does not even care that Gatsby is trying to take Daisy away for Tom. Nick is very disloyal because he has known Tom longer; he should be more loyal to him than to Gatsby, the guy he just met. Nick is willing to jeopardize Tom’s and Daisy’s marriage to please Gatsby.

Nick wanted to have all the information he could have because he did not want to judge someone on something untrue. Moving forward, Nick reserves judgment again with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. After Daisy killed Myrtle in Gatsby’s car and then found out Gatsby died she and her husband fled the city. With that information and everything else Nick had learned over time by being with them, Nick concluded that “they were careless people, Tom and Daisy-- they smashed up things” (pg 179). Nick did not make this judgment on them until after they came back.

This quote is Nick describing how he thought Gatsby was thinking about the parties and why Gatsby wanted to get to know himself, Nick. Gatsby has tried many things to get over Daisy and stop obsessing over her, but everytime he realizes everything he does is for her, and he still loves Her. “I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.” (Fitzgerald 140)

In this instance, it is the culprit of his demise due to the belief that he was responsible for killing Myrtle Wilson. When Nick prompts the idea of leaving for a bit, he tells him, "he would not consider it. He could not possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do" (113). This demonstrates his dedication to Daisy, as he refuses to leave the town until he knows Daisy's final decision regarding her staying with Tom or moving on with him. Even though Nick attempts to hint that it is unsafe for Gatsby to stay, he foreshadows Gatsby's eventual death.

During the conversation, Nick realizes that “what [Tom] had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy” (Fitzgerald 179). In short, Tom felt that his actions that lead to the death of Gatsby were “entirely justified” in his mind. This comes as no surprise to Nick because Tom and Daisy are careless people that leave a wake whenever they are around.

In The Great Gatsby, Daisy says to Gatsby,“I did love him once—but I loved you too” (Fitzgerald 132). Throughout the book, Daisy never clearly answers Gatsby when he asks her if she ever loved Tom. She avoided the question and led Gatsby to believe that he was the only one she had ever loved. In this scene, Daisy finally admits that she once loved Tom and this leaves Gatsby stunned. Daisy had once before rejected Gatsby when he was a poor army officer and, although she engages in an affair with him while married to Tom, she remains socially aloof and emotionally beyond his reach (Sova).

For example, after discovering Daisy’s husband, Tom Buckanan had a mistress, Nick's ignorance strongly influences his actions. He shamelessly thought, “Though I was curious to see her, I had no desire to meet her” (24). Even if he had no desire to meet her, his morals should have been persuading him to stand up against the wrongness of the situation. Throughout the chapter he neither stood up to Tom nor told Daisy about her husband's wrongdoings. Although Nick acts with his ignorance in the beginning of the book, he learns and sees all the disillusions that Gatsby experiences along with how those disillusions cause society to act.

‘What day would suit YOU?’ he corrected me quickly. ‘I don’t want to put you to any trouble, you see.’” (Fitzgerald 87-88). Although this interaction between the two sounds polite, Gatsby uses Nick as a way of getting closer with Daisy.

However, Gatsby is also “exempt from [his] reaction” (2). It seems as if, in the beginning, Gatsby is the human form of a satanic figure who bypasses any and all law, including Nicks. Disregarding his original thought of Gatsby, Nick is honored to be a part of all the extravagant parties and he has a sort of infatuation with knowing all the details and in this begins to seek out Gatsby. The two form a great bond with one single connection: Daisy. Daisy is Nick’s cousin and Gatsby’s former lover.

Nick agrees to invite Daisy over to his house so that Gatsby can see her (Fitzgerald 82-83). After Nick agrees Gatsby tries to offer him a job that will help him earn extra money (Fitzgerald 82-83). Nick declines his offer. This shows that Nick isn’t doing this to get something out of Gatsby, but just to help Gatsby be happy. Though in the end his attempts to reconnect them fully seems to be a fruitless effort this still shows that he tries to help Gatsby achieve the only thing that will complete his dream.