The Great Gatsby – Violent Situations

In F. Scott Fitzgeralds, The Great Gatsby, the violent situations that occur reveal the true personalities and feelings of many of the characters. To begin, Tom and Myrtle are discussing whether Myrtle has the office to mention Daisys name and Myrtle annoyingly repeated Daisy. This outraged Tom. Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open get hold of Then there were bloody towels upon the bath-room floor, and womens voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain(41). Tom brings out the caliginous side of him.He demonstrates how ferocious and cruel he is by getting to the point of punching a woman. Tom clearly loses his temper easily and does not cut how to control himself. He gets outraged if others dont obey him which makes him controlling. He also shows that he has some respect for Daisy because he does not let the miss he uses for a sexual relationship, to say her name. Secondly, under stress, Daisy is driving at a fast sp eed when Myrtle jumps in front of the car, and Daisy hit her and took off. Daisy savagely kills Myrtle. Michaelis and this man reached her first, but when they had torn open her shirtwaist, still damp with perspiration, they adage that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long(145). Daisy seems like a sweet, innocent woman but she proves instead to be selfish. She commits such a nasty and brutal mistake that the right thing would be for her to take responsibility for it.She doesnt though, because shes careless and worries only about herself. At the same time, Myrtle demonstrates her rely for freedom and to be with Tom as she runs towards the car. She is obviously not happy with George Wilson. Lastly, George becomes so sure Gatsby killed his wife, Myrtle, that he shoots him and a fter shoots himself. It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilsons body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete(170). After George is told that Gatsby kills Myrtle, he becomes careless.He proves that he is very perfervid about his love for his wife, that when she dies he doesnt care for his own life any longer. He feels bitter and the need of revenge. His grief over-powers him. For Gatsby, this reveals his corruption. Since he dies in his pool, adjoin by his own blood, he dies like a criminal he dies like a criminal would die for corruption. In The Great Gatsby, the violent situations emit who and how the characters truly are. It is their actions that speak their words.