Brief Analysis of the Death of Gatsby from the Perspective of Morality
Who is morally responsible for Gatsby’s death? In a court of law it would clearly be
George Wilson because he pulled the trigger, but there were several characters that
could have prevented what happened or who could have been held responsible. Write
an essay in which you examine this question, clearly proving who is or is not
responsible for Gatsby’s death.
The Great Gatsby is one of the representative works of Scott Fitzgerald, an
American writer in the 1920s. It is also an elegy played in the Jazz Age. With vivid
description of the love tragedy of an American youth Gatsby, the novel profoundly
portrays the decadent social life and distorted moral norms and spiritual outlook of the
United States after the First World War.
The story narrates a tragic story of the protagonist Gatsby who, in order to get his
beloved woman, changes from an unknown sailor to an esteemed success, but loses
his life in the end. On the surface, Gatsby dies of George Wilson’s gunshot, however,
