Love can take a person on an unforgettable and otherwise unattainable journey. Jay Gatsby, the love-stricken protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is pulled into this journey which brings back his past. Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s new neighbor and friend, narrates the situation he sees involving his married cousin, Daisy, who is caught between Gatsby and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Tom reveals to Nick the affair he is having with another married woman, Myrtle Wilson and relationships grow intense. With Nick’s assistance, Gatsby and Daisy reunite, followed by a rollercoaster of events, including murder and suicide. Accompanying Gatsby and Daisy’s love story and Myrtle’s fate, Fitzgerald depicts how the power of love changes lives.
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During the time Tom is seeing Myrtle, George remains oblivious and thinks Myrtle is only with him, as Tom explains, “Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (Fitzgerald 26). Therefore, when Wilson does learn about Myrtle’s affair, he is beyond furious, which is why Myrtle is locked in the room. His feelings do not last long, because the next thing he knows, Myrtle has been murdered. Originally, Wilson is certain Tom is the one that had the affair with his wife and then killed her. Later, he discovers the rightful owner of the car and comes to get revenge. Wilson enters Gatsby’s yard and shoots him without second thought. Then, unable to bear the emotional pain, Wilson pulls the trigger on himself, “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass” (Fitzgerald 162). The author demonstrates the power of love with their deaths by having Wilson kill Gatsby, the man who took blame for Daisy, and committing suicide. Wilson and Gatsby are both innocent men hurt by antagonists Daisy and Myrtle for simply confiding their hearts into the girls. Through the actions triggered by love, F. Scott Fitzgerald proves that love has a strong influence on people. Love brings happiness and ends with sorrow to those who toy around with it. The activities Jay Gatsby and George Wilson do makes readers rethink about true love and its
During the time Tom is seeing Myrtle, George remains oblivious and thinks Myrtle is only with him, as Tom explains, “Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (Fitzgerald 26). Therefore, when Wilson does learn about Myrtle’s affair, he is beyond furious, which is why Myrtle is locked in the room. His feelings do not last long, because the next thing he knows, Myrtle has been murdered. Originally, Wilson is certain Tom is the one that had the affair with his wife and then killed her. Later, he discovers the rightful owner of the car and comes to get revenge. Wilson enters Gatsby’s yard and shoots him without second thought. Then, unable to bear the emotional pain, Wilson pulls the trigger on himself, “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass” (Fitzgerald 162). The author demonstrates the power of love with their deaths by having Wilson kill Gatsby, the man who took blame for Daisy, and committing suicide. Wilson and Gatsby are both innocent men hurt by antagonists Daisy and Myrtle for simply confiding their hearts into the girls. Through the actions triggered by love, F. Scott Fitzgerald proves that love has a strong influence on people. Love brings happiness and ends with sorrow to those who toy around with it. The activities Jay Gatsby and George Wilson do makes readers rethink about true love and its