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** spoiler alert ** This novel is full of selfish, careless, evil and immoral people. Fitzgerald’s illustration of the 1920s� society is that of a corrupt world by greed, power and status. Fitzgerald gives us a demonstration of the corruption of the rich and the injustices suffered by the poor. At the end of the novel the carelessness of the rich, Daisy and Tom, leads to the deaths of three innocents of poor backgrounds, Gatsby, Myrtle and Wilson. You might say that Gatsby, Myrtle and Wilson weren’t so innocent at all. Gatsby was a bootlegger who had an affair with Daisy, Myrtle had an affair with Tom and Wilson convinced by Tom, that Gatsby was having an affair with Myrtle and that he was the one who killed her, killed Gatsby in revenge. However, what I can say is how all these three people were used by the rich and powerful. When Daisy’s careless driving leads to the death of Myrtle, Gatsby takes the blame for her. Myrtle is being used by Tom because he makes her believe that he loves her and that he doesn’t leave Daisy because Daisy is very catholic and doesn’t believe in divorces, which is a lie. Tom’s careless words to Wilson lead to the death of Gatsby and Wilson. At the end neither Tom nor Daisy take responsibility for their careless actions and leave it all to Nick.
Nick’s only compliment to Gatsby summarizes my whole point, “They’re (Tom, Daisy, and Jordan) a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole bunch put together.� They are worthless leeches who bring nothing but destruction and chaos. They suck out the life of everything they touch and are able to get away with it because they are wealthy, powerful, and of high status.
All I can say about this novel is that Fitzgerald did a good job at expressing his opinion about society.