Moral responsibility in The great Gatsby

Moral Responsibility in Gatsby         Bang! Gatsby's dead! George Wilson shot Gatsby! However, who is morally responsible for killing Gatsby? The obvious answer would be George since he pulled the trigger. However, it is clear, if for no other reason than for the unimportance of George in the book, that others were also partly responsible. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom, Daisy, and George are morally responsible for the death of Gatsby.         Tom, …

…Gatsby. In every crime or wrongdoing, the moral responsibility of the outcome can be placed on at least one person. This is the person who committed the act and usually receives all the blame for it. However, often times, other individuals must take some of the moral responsibility for one of these actions. Daisy and Tom have to be given some of the blame of Gatsby's death because of their terrible morals which caused it.