Who Killed Jay Gatsby

Who is responsible for the death of Jay Gatsby? Was it George? Was it Daisy? Or was it Tom? The first person that usually is to blame is the one who pulls the trigger. In this case George is the one who pulled the trigger, but he’s not the only one responsible. Tom and Daisy were also responsible for the death of Jay Gatsby.

In the book “ The Great Gatsby “ by the author Fitzgerald, he introduced Tom Buchanan as a football star in college, who grew up having everything that lead him to being a person who hated other people. Tom Buchanan is also Daisy’s husband, who is powerful. He is controlling, he likes to tell people what to do and likes to boss them around. He is also an unfaithful man; he doesn't like to keep things serious as he is supposed to. Tom is a strong built man who has a very conceited manner as if he is better than anyone else.

Despite being rejected by Daisy, Gatsby is still obsessed with Daisy’s love. Gatsby says it

Daisy Buchanan is the person that Gatsby is in love with. She is an example of perfection in Gatsby’s eyes; she is wealthy, graceful, sophisticated and charming. She is the symbol of what Gatsby strives for. “Was Daisy driving?” “Yes” “but of course I’ll say I was.” (143) this Shows that daisy is careless about other people’s lives, she let Gatsby take the blame for the accident she caused that killed Myrtle. And she shows no concern or guilt about Gatsby’s death. “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except for me.” (130). This proves that Daisy was materialistic and all she wanted was money, even if it meant she wouldn’t be happy. Daisy shows the corruption of the American Dream through her materialistic

One of the main reasons for Gatsby’s death was himself. He had one major flaw that brought his whole life to ruin. Even though Gatsby could’ve prevented his own death, Myrtle and Tom were also big causes that led to it.

To everyone else, Gatsby was an “Oxford man,” as he called himself, mysterious, and extremely private about his personal life, and thus many rumors circulated around him. Nobody knew of the real Jay Gatsby, small town James Gatz, because he was simply unglamorous and uninteresting to the American public of the 1920s. Furthermore, everything that he did was for Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby tried to win her love back and failed, a nonsensical belief on his part; however, he pursued it anyway. It was his obsession with her ultimately led to his death since he would do anything to protect the girl that he loved even though she would not reciprocate his feelings completely or do the same for him. Jay Gatsby would be undoubtedly deserving of being called “great” had it not been for Daisy Buchanan who was like his

Tom represents corruption in the upper class within the novel. On the surface, he has a great marriage with a beautiful wife and daughter, but looking closer, everything is not what it seems. He cheats on Daisy many times with Myrtle Wilson, his friend, George Wilson's wife. Tom is very cruel to Daisy and shows that he does not care about his friends at all. The only time in the novel he shows that he cares about Daisy is when he figures out that Gatsby is trying to take her from him. Overall, Tom is a horrible, self-centered character who shows that he will do anything to hold his reputation.

More literally, Daisy ruins Gatsby by killing Myrtle Wilson and letting him take the blame for it, thus ultimately causing his death. Of course, one may argue that Gatsby himself is willing to take the blame for her:

responsible for the tragedy that engendered Tom to send Wilson after Gatsby, but not before she

Even though he has achieved his goals, his longing dream has been just a lost hope in his empty heart. Similarly, to Tom he has wealth, power, and his wife’s love; however, he has a mistress thinking that would be sufficient to cover his emptiness. Another similarity is how both of them use people to do what they want. For instance, Tom Buchanan took advantage of George's emotional state and poverty to get involved with his wife, Myrtle. In order to, cover his infidelity with Myrtle accused Gatsby of killing his wife and of having an affair with Myrtle. He took advantage of his emotional state when Myrtle died to poison George against Gatsby, which he got Daisy back and got rid of Gatsby, simultaneously. In the book, states, “He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn’t told him who owned the car. His hand was on a revolver... He broke off defiantly. "What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy's, but he was a tough one” (

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.

Jay Gatsby’s downfall was inevitable from the start of the story, who caused his downfall is the main unanswered question in the plot. It can be said that Wilson, Gatsby’s killer, caused his downfall. One can also claim that Gatsby himself caused his downfall through his strange obsession with Daisy. However, i believe the main culprit in the story is Tom. Due to Tom being married to Daisy, telling Wilson about Gatsby’s car, and being higher on the social scale, he is the clear character responsible for Gatsby’s downfall.

Next, in every version of the great Gatsby, there was someone who said, “somebody told me that he killed a man once” or “it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.” He was nothing but a self-made man who almost obtained his goal. He never tells anyone who he truly is except for Nick, because he really trusts Nick more than anyone he’s ever met even Daisy. Which shows his real Identity and friendly persona.

Tom Buchanan is one of the many colourful, intriguing and enigmatic characters of the masterpiece “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is the antagonist of the novel and rightly so. He is racist, a hypocrite, an immoral cheater, a short-tempered brute and misogynistic. Tom is also part of an old and out dated sort of world that is being swamped all-round the edges by a new and better society. That is the reason why he is acting so tough and also why he hates Jay Gatsby so much, it is because he is afraid, afraid that the world that he knows and all the old-fashioned values of love, wealth and masculinity will come crashing down on him. He dislikes Gatsby because he is part of the new generation and he got rich by a different way

Undoubtedly, Tom is responsible in part for Gatsby's death because he tells Wilson that Gatsby killed his wife. Tom admits that Wilson came to his house with a loader revolver to ask Tom about who killed his wife. Tom recalls the experience to Nick: “What if I did tell him? That fellow (Gatsby) had it coming” (178). Some may argue that Tom thought he was telling the truth and here, but even if he has not yet spoken with Daisy -- and thus lying outright to protect her -- there exists some doubt in his mind