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Gatsby

What was Fitzgerald trying to tell us?

Guilty:

  • Blinding love for daisy
  • Impossible desire to recreate the past
  • Tried to achieve the American Dream by being immoral

Tom Buchanan

George B. Wilson

  • The American Dream is dead!
  • The American Dream is not stable nor secure nor in reach of most people
  • Gatsby was successful economically but not socially
  • He would never be accepted into Tom and Daisy's social circle completely
  • The American Dream is impossible to achieve

Tom Buchanan

Guilty:

  • Had the motivation
  • Misled Wilson
  • Tom is able to get his revenge through Wilson

Innocent

  • Trying to protect himself
  • “I told him the truth...He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car. His hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house-” (178)

Myrtle Wilson

George B. Wilson

Myrtle Wilson

Guilty:

  • Shot Gatsby

Innocent:

  • He is in a precarious mental state
  • Cries out "Oh, my God" over and over (P157-158)
  • He was misled by Tom and Daisy
  • Is powerless for the majority of the novel, but he is suddenly given the power to murder Gatsby?
  • One of the most moral characters

Guilty:

  • She ran into the road like a careless idiot
  • Cheated on her husband with Tom
  • Made Wilson want revenge

Innocent:

  • She thought the car would stop for her

So who killed Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan

Suspects

A careless and greedy society

  • George B. Wilson
  • Myrtle Wilson
  • Tom Buchanan
  • Daisy Buchanan
  • Gatsby

Guilty:

  • Ran over Myrtle
  • Has a "killer" Voice
  • “It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again” (9)
  • Siren's song
  • Her voice sound like everything Gatsby wanted
  • Gatsby died in a pool

Innocent:

  • Myrtle was "expendable"

Questions?

Who Killed Gatsby?

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