Moreover, even though he does not know who killed Myrtle, he does not interrogate Daisy and instead assumes that it was Gatsby. Armed with this information, Tom tells George who he thinks killed Gatsby and by doing this, he ends the one person who is competing with. When Nick confronts Tom about his misdoings, Tom safely hides behind his money and claims that Gatsby “had it coming to him”. Tom also always surrounds himself with lower class and weaker people such as Myrtle and George so that he can belittle and agitate them as much as he wants without facing repercussions such as the times when he broke Myrtle’s nose.
One can see that all of the characters left standing at the end of the novel are more like Tom than Gatsby; they are wealthy, …show more content…
Nick describes that he “wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart … Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction.” Even though all the main characters has their illusions and ambitions, Nick admires only Gatsby because “there was something gorgeous about him… an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person”. Everybody else’s illusions involved greed, elitism, etc, but only Gatsby’s was pure. Nick admires how “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” .Gatsby’s light was Daisy, which was almost impossible to achieve. No matter what challenges Gatsby faced, he is unrelenting. He is going against the current, against the odds and social forces against him, while opening himself up more. He loses his fake charm that he created and devolves to his past self as he grows closer to Daisy, wanting to recreate the past. This past self is the reality and hope to recreate the past is the illusion that Nick appreciates; They both depict Gatsby’s true love, and even though his vehicle to receive this love was questionable and eventually led to his destruction, ultimately his motive was just noble
One can see that all of the characters left standing at the end of the novel are more like Tom than Gatsby; they are wealthy, …show more content…
Nick describes that he “wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart … Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction.” Even though all the main characters has their illusions and ambitions, Nick admires only Gatsby because “there was something gorgeous about him… an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person”. Everybody else’s illusions involved greed, elitism, etc, but only Gatsby’s was pure. Nick admires how “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” .Gatsby’s light was Daisy, which was almost impossible to achieve. No matter what challenges Gatsby faced, he is unrelenting. He is going against the current, against the odds and social forces against him, while opening himself up more. He loses his fake charm that he created and devolves to his past self as he grows closer to Daisy, wanting to recreate the past. This past self is the reality and hope to recreate the past is the illusion that Nick appreciates; They both depict Gatsby’s true love, and even though his vehicle to receive this love was questionable and eventually led to his destruction, ultimately his motive was just noble