Wilson's POV In The Great Gatsby

The end of chapter eight details the tragic events that ended Gatsby’s life. George Wilson, manipulated by Tom, kills Gatsby to seek justice. News spread about Gatsby’s death which caused a lot of traffic at his house; they weren’t people that knew him from a personal level, but were journalists, photographers, police officers and other media positions. Everyone except Nick believed Gatsby was the killer of Myrtle and Wilson was “deranged by grief” (Fitzgerald, 164). Further investigation ended and then the funeral took place. Gatsby’s body demanded Nick to call everyone that regularly attended the party to join him as he couldn’t do it alone: “Look here, old sport, you’ve got to get somebody for me. You’ve got to try hard. I can’t go through this alone.” (Fitzgerald, 166) No one from the

The violent act that begins the downward spiral in The Great Gatsby is when Tom Buchanan hits Myrtle, his mistress, in the face. “It was a body capable of enormous leverage — a cruel body (Fitzgerald, 12). ” is how Nick describes Tom’s intimidating physique when he

Both Fitzgerald and Frost use vast amounts of violence within both the novel and the collection of poems. Throughout the entirety of ‘The Great Gatsby’, violence is a significant feature which is present in almost all the chapters, whether it is displayed directly or indirectly. The first sign of direct violence in the novel is in chapter two, when Nick and Tom visit New York with Tom’s mistress, Myrtle. Even with the growing opportunities and roles women had in 1920’s America, Tom’s violence towards Myrtle in this chapter shows how domestic violence was still very common, even in the country of ‘great opportunity’. Tom Bucchanan’s short temper and violent streak is highlighted when he breaks Myrtle’s “nose with this open hand”. This

You may ask, “Who would do such a thing, killing a innocent man?” “And, on top of that to kill him in his beautiful home?” Well I have the answer for you ladies and gentleman. The person guilty of this monstrous crime is Tom Buchanan. Tom Buchanan is brute, imperious, and just like his wife Daisy he is a careless man; crushing and destroying lives in his path. As well, Tom is a cheater; let's not forget he’s having an affair with another woman: Myrtle wilson. Above all Tom Buchanan is a killer. Today I will be presenting several pieces of evidences that Tom is at fault for the death of Mr. Jay Gatsby.

When reckoning time comes and someone has to take the fall for everyone, Jim Casy, the ex-preacher, steps up. He knows that if he lets Tom Joad take the blame, he’ll be in even bigger trouble since he’s also violating his parole. Out of his gratefulness to the Joads for taking him in and his altruistic values, Casy sacrifices himself for Tom Joad saying, “I wanna do what’s bes’ for you folks. You took me in, carried me along. I’ll do whatever” (Steinbeck, 2006.) Clearly, Tom’s and Daisy’s selfish act of letting Gatsby take the blame highly contrast with Jim Casy’s selfless act of sacrificing himself for Tom Joad.

In many instances, Gatsby showed signs of selflessness. But, if the reader were to dig deeper into the roots of the story, they will be able to see that under the kind acts and good deeds, Gatsby’s intentions were always selfish. After the car scene, Tom, Jordan, Daisy and Nick returned to Daisy and Tom’s house. As Gatsby waits outside of the home, Nick, unknowingly, asks Gatsby whether or not Daisy was driving. Gatsby replies saying, “Yes, but of course I’ll say I was” (Fitzgerald 143). When Gatsby took Daisy’s place in the murder of Myrtle, although seeming kind-hearted, his only reason for this was to earn Daisy’s love and to impress her. Gatsby has somewhat put up an image of himself to be the pure and almighty man that deserves Daisy more. Meyer Wolfshiem, Gatsby’s business partner, mentions to Nick of Gatsby’s chivalrous actions towards women saying, “Yeah, Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much look at a friend’s wife” (Fitzgerald 72). Although Meyer Wolfshiem’s comment on Gatsby about him being a gentleman, and how he would never look at another man’s wife, Gatsby proceeds to exceed all expectations and have an affair with Tom’s wife, Daisy Buchanan. Yes, some might say his only reason for doing so was out of true love and destiny but, in either case, it was morally wrong. In every action that Gatsby commits for Daisy, his selfishness secretly hides beneath it, shading itself from light so no one will approach the real man that lurks behind the curtains of self pride.

Gatsby seemed like an anti-social, cold, mysterious man. However, I know a very different man. I know a man whom since young has grew up in poverty as a poor farmer boy. He was an ordinary boy, but he had extraordinary ambitions, ambitions no man of his social stature would dare to even begin assuming. In an unexpected coincidence, while working as a fisher, he met with a Dan Cody, who took him in as a personal assistant. It was through Dan Cody that Mr. Gatsby learnt the ways of luxury and even further solidified his ambition. Before I first took up the job to work with Mr. Gatsby, I was desperate. Desperation … I still recall the days of uncertainty that questioned if I was able to feed my wife and 2 children each day. However, when I was down, so down I almost attempted suicide on the shores, Mr. Gatsby reached out, and turn my life around. Not only did he settle all my financial need, he educated me, gave me a stable job. The fact that I am able to read and speak fluently is a testament to his efforts, and to him I am eternally

In the lower class society, The Great Gatsby displays unhappiness in a number of ways and at a variety of extents, this is displayed though the eyes of Myrtle Wilson. Unhappy in her marriage and her position on the social hierarchy. George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband, gave an impressionable first encounter; this lead Myrtle to believe he was true gentleman worthy of her love and affection. She comes to find he is nothing short of

“On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand.

There is not much sincere encouragement of morality, and even at the funeral of Gatsby a reference to God is vague to the point of barely existing in the text. Gatsby himself is his own God, emulating the basis of God's essence: creation. He creates his own world and being to such an extent that rather than being included in the vast expanse of the territory over which the traditional view of "God" is all-powerful, he is "about his Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty" (104), and is so in his own territory. Likewise, no character has any strong inclination towards a traditional "God," but rather lives in his own perception of the universe.

The nineteen twenties was a time of lavish parties, the stock market was on the rise and women such as flappers were gaining independence. Despite this, men at the time were still seen as superior and their brutish, abusive, and cheating was considered the norm. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are more similar than different, despite the money that determines their fate. This story reveals how Tom and George both have similar attitudes towards women and both are being cuckolded, the only thing that differentiates the two is money and power.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a superbly written and an intrinsically captivating novel that deals with the decline of the American Dream and how vapid the upper class is. To illustrate and capture the essence of these themes, Fitzgerald uses characters Gatsby, who epitomizes the actual American Dream, and Daisy, who is based on the ideal girl. Yet, as these characters grasp the topics Fitzgerald wants to convey, there is something inherently like missing from the story as a whole. To fill this void, Fitzgerald utilizes minor characters as a means to move the plot along, develop characters further, and build upon the themes present in the novel. One such

This article explains witness point of view in The Great Gatsby, and how Fitzgerald struggled with it. The Great Gatsby is told from Nick Carraway’s point of view, which makes it difficult to believe moments when there is no possible way Nick knows what another is thinking. For example, Nick conveys Gatsby’s thoughts when he returns to Louisville at war’s end. These implausible moments increase towards the end of the book. Once the narrator’s sources of information invite the reader’s disbelief, this particular point of view fails. Nick receives most of his background information from Jordan Baker and Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses Nick as a double for the inarticulate Gatsby in coup de theatre fashion. In the 1920’s private phone lines were a

Jay Gatsby himself had killed a man. Countless different conversations with the topic all on Gatsby. These differing conversations all held by the ever changing people not even invited by the supreme pontiff himself. Those guests came and left like dust in the wind. In and out of Gatsby’s seemingly flawless life. Jay, a pretty spiffy man if I do say so myself, just gallivants around inconspicuously observing and spectates the crowd around him. But, for what; what is something that this man feels he needs so much that he can not join his own parties that he hosts every week end?

Even though there are clear external differences between Jay Gatsby and George Wilson, there are also similarities between them. First off, both Gatsby and Wilson seek women that are romantically involved with Tom. Even though Wilson is already married to his woman, Gatsby goes on having an affair. They both want acceptance of these women and they both come from a very working-class background. They both want recognition of these women, and they both come from the background of the working class itself. Wilson is working for an honest life trying to stretch every dollar, Gatsby working illegally, regularly throwing away money.