Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby - Justice is Served "What goes around comes around." This is ultimately the message delivered by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel, The Great Gatsby - that retribution for one's actions is inevitable. He demonstrates this point through the novel's ending and, more specifically, the death of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby's untimely murder is essentially the only possible conclusion for the novel to express Fitzgerald's point - since the ending is justice being served for Gatsby's actions and the way he leads his life, as well as the actions and behaviour of the other characters. Gatsby's illegal business activities and wild parties, his attempted destruction of a marriage for his own personal glory, as well as the distasteful and careless behaviour and actions of the other characters - specifically Tom, Daisy, and Myrtle, are all several examples contributing to Gatsby's inevitable end. Firstly, Gatsby's own attempt to attain the American Dream, or at least his corrupted image of it, is a major contributing factor making him deserving of the retribution he receives. The so-called American Dream is the ideal that hard work will result in prosperity in all aspects of life, but monetarily in particular. Jay
Secondly, there is one more major issue of culpability for Gatsby - another justification of his murder. This turns out to be untrue once Tom reveals the things Gatsby's done to Daisy and he reassures himself of the security of their marriage: " 'Go on. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemd so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong. Gatsby is determined to destroy the Tom and Daisy's relationship - a sacred sacrament of marriage - and doing so for reasons he deems justifiable, but in reality are not. He dedicates his whole being to Daisy and attaining materialistic success so he is able to be with her, however in doing so, his obsession creates a false image of Daisy based on how things were many years ago - not on how she realistically is at the present time. Daisy's leaving you,'" (Fitzgerald 127). 'I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. In his attempts to become successful he becomes a bootlegger of sorts, selling alcohol during a time of prohibition - not to mention throwing his rambunctious parties where he served large amounts of alcohol. These are two quotations of explanations that guests give of Gatsby's past, however he tries to clear rumours himself but never truly explaining what he does: "'Oh, I've been in several things,' he corrected himself. Gatsby creates so much distress in both Daisy and Tom's lives for unjustified reasons, until he receives retribution for the things he does at the end of the novel. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over,'" (Fitzgerald 129).
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