Examples Of Carelessness In The Great Gatsby

In today’s society we see people with money and they think they can act differently and get away with it. Most people with money today seem to be more careless. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the carelessness of people throughout the book. We see many different types of styles of parties throughout book. Most characters are careless since they have money. Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy are the most careless people throughout the book just because they are wealthy. Fitzgerald uses the character Gatsby and motif of parties to develop the theme that wealth causes people to be more careless.
Fitzgerald demonstrates the idea that wealth causes people to act more careless, and in this case Gatsby comes off being careless in the scene that

he can get away with almost everything. Nick went to one Gatsby’s parties and learned so much about him in such a little time. Nick ran into a lady named Jordan Baker and the very first party and she told Nick very confidently that: “Someone told me that they thought Gatsby killed a man once”(44). Ever since Gatsby became rich he has become very careless. Since he’s rich he can do what he wants and be able to get away with. Nick Carraway finally meet Gatsby for the first time at a party, and he was asked to go to lunch with him. Of course, Nick went and he experienced the carelessness of Gatsby by his driving: “I heard the familiar “jug-jug-spat!” of a motorcycle and a frantic police man rode along, “Alright, old sport” called. We slowed down. Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the man’s eyes” (62). Nick begins to feel the scene that Gatsby can get away with anything just because of who he is. Careless behavior should have consequences but for some nothing will be done because of their name and wealth. Gatsby a man that knows what he wants, will do anything in his power to get it. Five years before the reunion of the girl he dreamed of being with, Daisy Buchanan, he bought a house, threw parties, and joined a dangerous job of selling drugs illegally. Tom later on then puts Gatsby on the spot when they are in the plaza: “Some big Bootlegger?”(107) From the beginning to the end of the book Fitzgerald paints the picture that Gatsby is careless and dishonest. He was careless and dishonest because he wanted to become rich and win Daisy back. Gatsby did that the wrong way, Daisy stayed with Tom. Just as Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to demonstrate carelessness, he also uses the motif of parties to show the same idea.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the motif of parties to demonstrate the idea of wealth causes people to be careless.

Throughout the book there are many parties throwin. Some of the parties are just get together, and some parties are crazy, wild and full of careless people. For instance Gatsby’s parties are prime examples. People of new money act differently than the people of old money, people of new money seem to be more wild and careless. People that attended Gatsby’s parties are not invited, except for a very few: “ I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited they went there”(41). Carraway was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. Others just showed up not even knowing Gatsby just so they could drink and get drunk and become careless. Gatsby’s parties had tons of liquor which is unsafe and causes people to make careless decisions. When most people drink liquor at parties they tend to things like drink and drive: “In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupe which had left gatsby’s drive not two minutes before”(53). This shows that Gatsby’s parties got out of hand and people could not be controlled due to the amount of liquor that was consumed. People would then leave drunk and end up in a ditch due to careless decision to drink and drive. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses parties as a way to show

carelessness.
Fitzgerald uses the character of Gatsby and motif of parties to develop the theme that wealth causes people to be more careless. Throughout the book Fitzgerald used the motif of parties and the character of Gatsby to show the carelessness in people. Gatsby shows carelessness throughout the book with the huge parties he throws. Today carelessness is seen all over especially in younger people. You seem to see carelessness in kids because they like to party, which brings drinking, and doing illegal drugs. Plus kids also tend to drive carelessly because of their phones and such. Carelessness is still a big issue in today’s society.