Essays
...g the time passes this immorality will stay with her forever. The way she treats her lover like an entertaining object and her calm reaction about the death of Gatsby obviously demonstrate her selfishness. Unlike Gatsby who is willing to do anything for the one he loves. Gatsby believes that everything he does is always right as long as Daisy is happy. He spends the rest of his short life trying to win Daisy’s love by earning massive fortune from bootlegging and also other illegal business. Tom tells Daisy about the illegal businesses that Gatsby does. “‘I found out what your “drug-stores” were…He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That‘s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger for the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong’” (Fitzgerald 127). However, Gatsby is not really concerned whether his business is illegal or not. He is satisfied as long as it brings him fortune and able to achieve his dream of being with Daisy. Gatsby makes use of this income to build a magnificent house right opposite Daisy’s house. He throws parties so often hoping that one day Daisy will attend one of them .The question of morality never entered his mind. In fact, he never realized what he does is against morality. Gatsby as well protects Daisy by hiding the real cause of Mytle’s death. Gatsby informs Nick the truth that Daisy accidentally killed Mytle, and covers up for her by saying comfortably “‘but of course I’ll say I was’” (Fitzgerald 137). Even when Nick suggests for him to escape from danger, Gatsby refuses. He thinks he still has hope and opportunity to win Daisy’s love even though his dream starts to fade away at that point. Gatsby does not have the sense of what is moral and immoral. His only target is to take Daisy away from Tom. Moreover, Gatsby thinks he can win her heart by taking the guilt instead. In the end, it was clearly proven that he is all wrong about Daisy. Everything he does for her is considered insignificant, which means his dream finally disappears. As we can see, his love for Daisy is just his own imagination. Earning money from bootlegging and taking the risk to protect Daisy is wasteful and irrational. On the other hand, Myrtle often takes advantage of others. Myrtle is a discourteous and insolent woman. By betraying Wilson to have an affair with Tom, she thinks it is the right way to improve her poor situation. The reason Myrtle marries Wilson is because she thinks he is a “gentleman” and “knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (Fitzgerald 37). Myrtle even says that “‘The only crazy I was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when we was out: “Oh, is that your suit?”...