Class And Status In The Great Gatsby

I think that gatsby was the one of the main causes of myrtle's death because when myrtle was hit by the car gatsby had told daisy to drive because he thought that having her drive would relieve some of her stress and sadness. When daisy was driving her mind was probably elsewhere after the argument. she had so much sadness because of when gatsby told tom"I've got something to tell you, old sport...Your wife doesn't love you,...She's never loved you. She loves me."after gatsby said this he and tom fought over her love. she was also sad because she told tom that she didn't love him even though she did love him.daisy got mad at gatsby and said "Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now--isn't that enough? I can't help what's

At a young age, Gatsby dream of one day becoming successful and wealthy, and now that he has fulfilled his goal he indulges in materialistic things, like his car, recklessly. The yellow car represents the American Dream of riches and prosperity. For example, when Daisy and Gatsby are driving back from the City in his Car and Myrtle comes running in front of the car. She thought that Tom was driving, who was her

Daisy is greedy for the life of luxury. She wants more money and her priorities in life are skewed. Unaware of her selfish mentality, Daisy later kills Tom’s mistress. Tom informs everyone, including Wilson, that Gatsby’s car was the one that hit and killed Myrtle. Due to his endless love for Daisy, Gatsby takes the blame for Myrtle’s death in order to protect Daisy and

The murderer George Wilson and the one who told George who “killed” Myrtle, Tom, were highly responsible for the death of Gatsby. But in the end, Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy is what set him up in the end for an unruly death. When George killed Gatsby, he was in a distraught state since he had just lost his wife. He was not thinking straight, which led him to decide to kill not only Gatsby but himself as well. Side characters in the book

Daisy is responsible for Myrtle's death because she was still nervous from the incident that happened in New York between Tom and Gatsby. She was so nervous that she wasn’t in the best shape to be driving and was driving fast when myrtle ran into the street that she couldn’t stop. Daisy is responsible for Gatsby’s death because she was driving Gatsby’s car when she ran over Myrtle and didn’t stop. People automatically think the owner of the car was driving so then George goes looking for the owner of the yellow car and finds out it’s Gatsby's. George then goes to Gatsby's house and shoots him by his pool killing him on the spot.

Gatsby became obsessed with the idea of obtaining her that he had created his own magical world. His expectations only became higher and unrealistic as he created a nonexistent side to Daisy that he prolonged for. Five years worth of Gatsby’s hard and illegal work did not pay off in the end, the murdering of Gatsby shocked Carraway. Daisy, a selfish and money driven woman, was the ultimate cause of his death. The night Gatsby and Daisy returned from New York city, Myrtle Wilson was struck dead by Daisy. Gatsby had acted upon the situation by taking blame in it, in order to protect his lover. Myrtle’s death aggravated both Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband and Myrtle’s secret partner, and Mr. Wilson, Myrtle’s husband. The death had caused them to react upon the situation instantly. Tom decided to reveal the murderer’s identity to the furious Mr. Wilson. On a hunt to seek revenge, Mr. Wilson arrives at the Gatsby mansion. It is here that he comes to murder Gatsby and commits suicide himself. This tragedy revealed that

The automobile is a major motif that makes a regular appearance in the story. The automobile has always been a kind of status symbol in the United States. Expensive cars are associated with the possession of great wealth. Gatsby's car is described as the epitome of wealth. His reason for buying the car is to convey his material success and newfound prosperity. The fact that his car is yellow instead of the uniform black of the period stresses the idea that he is absorbed with the preoccupation of displaying his material wealth.

In the novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald highlights the extremely wide wealth gap in America, as well as the unfair advantage that the rich have over the poor. Fitzgerald uses the setting and the characters within the novel to comment on the importance of social class and wealth during the 1920’s.

Money is essential for survival; it can bring happiness, despair, or corruption. It rules our daily lives, is preferred in large amounts, and separates us into different social classes. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is a perfect example of this since the class structure within the novel, portrays how money or the need for it can cause corruption in all the different social classes. This is shown through the three distinct classes: old money represented by the Buchanan’s and their self-centered, racist nature, new money represented by Gatsby and his mysterious, illegal ways, and a class that can be called no money represented by the Wilson’s and their attempts at

Fitzgerald, in his sarcastic novel The Great Gatsby, frequently shows how racism and classism seriously influence the possibilities of achieving American dreams in obscure methods. The novel details Gatsby’s achievements and dream including Daisy, and makes comparison with other people in different races and classes indirectly but visibly. The fact that, though Gatsby is much wealthier than those in East Egg, he has never achieved the American dream, never owned Daisy truly and never acquired respect, but rumours, due he isn’t born in high class and makes money through bootleg. To some extent, the miserable end of Gatsby is the reflection of the disparity of classism. Gatsby’s mansion reminds people of the feasibility of making the American dream come true. However, his unexpected death that is not caught by police, but killed by Wilson, a white man in mid class, proves that it is related to races and classes closely. Fitzgerald takes us into the suffering of Gatsby to show us that the American dream is like a shell company, which makes everyone look forward to their future with great expectations, but only certain people can truly reach it because people are not standing on the same starting line.

It was cowardly of Tom to implement Gatsby in the death of Myrtle, for Daisy was the one driving his car when it struck Tom’s mistress. With his loathing for Gatsby, it was easy for Tom to swap drivers in his attempt to implement Gatsby as Myrtles murderer. It became a conspiracy, an agreement between two or more person, Gatsby himself. Tom’s scheme was a cover-up that had gone terribly wrong and in his attempt to conceal evidence against himself and Daisy, he caused the death of Jay Gatsby.

Tom, Nick and Jordan are driving home when at Wilson's garage they come to find that Myrtle has been hit and killed by a yellow car. Tom immediately knows that it is Gatsby who was driving the car and seeks revenge. What he does not know is that the actual driver was Daisy. Gatsby does not tell anyone but Nick that Daisy was driving the car because he does not want anything bad to happen to her. This shows how much he truly cares for Daisy. It also shows that by not letting anyone else know the truth regarding the accident that Gatsby will only trust key people. This trust issue causes many problems for Gatsby and others.

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a constant theme present: social class. Fitzgerald makes a connection between the theme of social class, and the settings in the novel for example The Valley of Ashes which is described as a “desolate area of land” (p.21) and a “solemn dumping ground” (p.21) which is where the poor people live. The Valley of Ashes is situated between West Egg and New York, West Egg being the place where the aspiring classes are situated, which is the “less fashionable of the two” (p.8), this is where Gatsby lives. West Egg is the place of ‘new money’, Fitzgerald shows this by the idea of the main character Jay Gatsby, rumoured to be selling illegal alcohol (prohibition) which means he is quickly making vast

Near the end of the novel, Gatsby says that he is willing the take the blame for the death of Myrtle whose death was caused by Daisy, [a death caused by a car accident -- RWM], he says ‘“Yes, but of course I’ll say I was”’ (397; ch.7), showing his love for Daisy sacrificing himself for her. Gatsby, willing to take the blame for Daisy, shows how much he loves her company;however, this will lead to both his spiritual downfall and physical downfall as he will die for this cause, marking a pivotal moment in his unsuccessful goal for his dream

She, however, takes advantage of the fact that Gatsby is willing to do anything for her, and convinces him to take responsibility for Myrtle’s death, which she caused! Gatsby is so blinded by his love for her that he does not even realise that he is being manipulated. For example when questioned by Nick as to whether or not Daisy was driving when the accident causing Myrtle’s death occurred, Gatsby responds by saying: “Yes... but of course I’ll say I was.” This lie eventually leads to his death, and Daisy does not even have the decency to attend his funeral.