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Essay / Tom Buchanan and George Wilson caused the death of The...
In the 1920s novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Wilson shoots and kills Gatsby. But whose fault is it? The man who pulled the trigger or other characters like Daisy, Myrtle, Tom or Gatsby himself, this leaves readers suspicious and curious with the question: who is most responsible for Gatsby's death? Many characters in the novel participate in Gatsby's death. The ending surprises some readers, leaving responsibility for Gatsby's death unclear. George Wilson, married to Myrtle, and Tom Buchanan, married to Daisy, are primarily responsible for Gatsby's death. Wilson approached Tom to ask who owned the yellow car that killed his wife. Tom revealed that it was Gatsby's car, knowing that Wilson intended to kill the car's owner, but Tom did not add the fact that Daisy was driving. Gatsby had a relationship with Daisy and Tom knew it. Tom allowed Daisy to get in Gatsby's car to go back to West Egg to prove that he didn't care if Daisy and Gatsby were together, if Tom hadn't let Daisy get in Gatsby's car, both of them Myrtl....