Appropriate Ending In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Multiple people dead for multiple reasons with only some of the murderers held accountable, while the others are still free, is that really a good ending? In the book The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald creates moments of closure at the end of the book for some of the characters, like Nick moving away to the Midwest again, Tom and Daisy still happily married, but also a sense of unfinished endings for Gatsby because he dies, as well as Myrtle’s death because there was never true justice served. The book has an appropriate ending for some of the characters, as well as on the opposite side of the spectrum, the ending has inappropriate endings for others. The Great Gatsby had a good, appropriate ending for characters like Nick and Tom because they could escape the situation a lot easier since they weren’t quite as involved …show more content…

They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.”(Fitzgerald 179). This explains that it was quite easy for Tom and Daisy to go back to their normal lives after all that had happened, because that is just how they operate. Tom also thought he was doing the right thing by telling George that Gatsby had hit Myrtle. Another example of this attitude is when Nick decided to move back to the Midwest after everything, since he untied all of his connections and everything after the funeral he just got up and left to live the rest of his life without issues. Scott Fitzgerald created some inappropriate endings for some of the characters, however. He made it so that Daisy would never be found out about killing Myrtle because Nick never said anything and Gatsby was dead so she would go on living her lavish life even though she was guilty of really killing not only Myrtle but also Gatsby and George. That left a sort of unfinished issue that never was disclosed, which felt like an inappropriate ending for Daisy since she should be to blame for almost

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