Tom Buchanan Is Responsible For Gatsby's Death

”(Fitzgerald 141) Consequently, Myrtle’s death would make Tom very upset, leading him to cause another death, Gatsby’s. Although if Tom told Wilson the truth about who was truly Myrtle’s mistress then therefore Gatsby would not have died, but it could have possibly led to an altercation between Tom and Wilson. Also, if Tom was not as careless, then he would have cared about the consequences of his

After Myrtle died under the bumper of the great yellow car, George looks for the man who caused her death, who he was convinced was Gatsby because Gatsby owns the car. The man who lead him to that decision is Tom. Tom has been pushing George

In the end Gatsby dies by Georges hand because Daisy knew that Tom was sleeping with Myrtle and one day she was so mad from Tom and Gatsby fight in East egg she drove Gatsby’s car pass the Valley of Ashes and hit Myrtle with it, and the key term is that the yellow car is Gatsby so George don't know who was the driver but he know who that yellow car belong to and he went to the Gatsby’s mansion and shot Gatsby and kill

In doing so she was responsible for killing Gatsby indirectly. When Gatsby reached for the wheel to avoid hitting Myrtle he was too late and he told Nick “it must have killed her instantly”(Fitzgerald 144). This quote says not only did Gatsby not hit her he tried to steer the car so it would not hit Myrtle but was too late. Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car and struck Myrtle killing her on impact without ever stopping or slowing down. Because Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car Tom had told Myrtle’s husband George that Gatsby was the one who had hit her. Daisy was aware that Tom had told George that and she never told anybody the truth of what happened. When Nick asked Gatsby if Daisy was driving he said “Yes but of course I’ll say I was”(Fitzgerald 143). Gatsby took the blame for Daisy because Daisy was too worried about herself getting in trouble. In order to get his revenge George sneaks up to Gatsby while he is swimming and he shoots and kills him. He then turns the gun and shoots himself after saying that “God sees everything”(Fitzgerald 160). It can be argued that Daisy is also responsible for the death of George too but there is almost no doubt that she was the reason Gatsby was killed. Daisy could have saved Gatsby if she had come out with the truth and George may have not been able to kill Daisy if he .went after her. Even if George did go after her she was the one who had

Gatsby’s Death: The Real Cause In the unexpected plot twist of Jay Gatsby’s demise, the question of responsibility is one of great importance. While the narrative unfolds with Tom Buchanan’s actions setting the stage for tragedy, a deeper exploration reveals that Gatsby's relentless pursuit of his true love, Daisy Buchanan, and his inability to reconcile the divide between old money and new money played a significant role. Although Tom Buchanan indirectly led to the unfolding of Gatsby’s death, it was ultimately Jay Gatsby himself who caused his death. Tom Buchanan’s actions, stemming from his position of wealth and entitlement, cast a shadow over Gatsby’s fate. As Daisy’s husband, Tom is somewhat overprotective of Daisy as well as very prideful and entitled because of his generational wealth.

This shocked Gatsby, which shows more that she led him to be delusional about the possibility of them having a real relationship in the future. Her making him think that started this whole argument and if she didn’t lead him on, Tom wouldn’t have found out about any of this and then he wouldn’t have told Wilson that Gatsby killed Myrtle. Tom is responsible for Gatsby’s death because he let Wilson believe that Gatsby had an affair with Myrtle and killed her aswell, Tom did this because he discovered that Daisy and Gatsby were having an affair and wanted to keep Daisy from leaving him. After Myrtle was hit by the car, a policeman was questioning people and asked Tom suspiciously what the color of his car was and he replied: ‘“It’s a blue car, a coupe”’(Fitzgerald 140). Wilson heard Tom say this and later on Tom came back to Wilson to speak with him.

Lastly, Tom’s confrontation with Gatsby is a crucial moment in which Gatsby’s downfall accelerates. Tom aggressively interrogates Gatsby about his intentions with Daisy, creating undeniable tension between them. He hypocritically complains about how he is supposedly “sit[ting] back and watch[ing] and let[ting] Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to [his] wife” (Fitzgerald 100). It is no secret that Tom actively cheats on Daisy with Myrtle, so his complaining about Daisy and Gatsby is beyond unreasonable. Further into the novel, Daisy runs over Myrtle, but Tom blames Gatsby by telling George Wilson that he “ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car” (Fitzgerald 136).

The 2nd example of Tom and Gatsby’s relationship causing the death of Gatsby is after Myrtle is found dead and Tom sees it. Tom quickly clears himself of the murder and says “That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine, do you hear? I haven’t seen it all afternoon.”” (Fitzgerald 108). Although Tom is telling the truth, it sets up George to believe Gatsby killed his wife because the car was his.

Gatsby’s plan works and he begins an affair with Daisy. Tom, her husbands, becomes suspicious of their affair—even though he is having his own with Myrtle—and forces a meeting with Gatsby and Daisy where he confronts Gatsby. Gatsby attempts to make Daisy say that she never loved Tom, but she is unable to do so. In the end, after Daisy drives Gatsby home in his car, Tom comes across Myrtle hit dead by a car, Gatsby’s car. George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband, assumes that Gatsby killed his wife and murders Gatsby at his home and then turn the gun on himself. Nick holds a funeral for Gatsby where none of his supposedly friends come and he then returns westward to escape the emptiness and corrupt life on the East

The person at fault for Gatsby’s death is Tom because of his unfaithful love life, manipulative nature, and careless attitude. To start with, Tom is responsible for Gatsby’s death because of how unfaithful he was. Tom has had affairs with other women since his marriage to Daisy began. Throughout the novel, Tom commits adultery with Myrtle Wilson. These sinful actions not only shatter the relationship between him and his wife, but also lead to the tragic events that follow.

(124). Tom is linked to Gatsby’s death, because he was the dividing force between Myrtle and Mr. Wilson, causing her to run to her death, and Gatsby gets accused of killing Myrtle. Myrtle is implicated for Gatsby’s death, because her tragic death is the reason Wilson killed Gatsby.

Myrtle is the fourth person responsible for Gatsby’s death. If she was not having an affair with Tom then none of this would have happened. Myrtle was taking advantage of her husband’s kindness and his lack of intelligence, “A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity-except his wife, who moved close to Tom” (Fitzgerald 30). if her affair with Tom was non-existent then George would not have known who Gatsby was and he might not have shot him to avenge his wife’s murder. If Myrtle had not run in front of the car that she would still be alive and so would Gatsby. She could have just waited until the next day to see Tom she did not have to run in front of his car.

When Gatsby tried to impress Daisy by letting her drive his car, he was trying to win her back (Fitzgerald 135). When she ran into Myrtle, George, Myrtle’s husband, got very upset with everything (Fitzgerald 158-160). He figured that Gatsby was the one having an affair with Myrtle, and he was the person who killed her. He eventually became malignant towards Gatsby, and had to kill him (Fitzgerald 161). If Gatsby had just

Until one day when Gatsby invites Tom and Daisy to the party. Tom sees how Gatsby acts towards Daisy and realizes something is fishy. So he starts doing his research on ole’ Gatsby. One day Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan all have dinner together in the city. But Tom starts an argument with Gatsby and Daisy wishes to go home. So she leaves with Gatsby but on the way back the two hit and kill Myrtle. Gatsby being the true gentleman he is takes the blame so that nothing happens to Daisy. But word gets around to George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband, that Gatsby killed his wife. So the next day George sneaks over to Gatsby’s and kills

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.