The symbol: Gatsby's death

The Great Gatsby, tends to have a great variety of symbols some more important than others. The death of Gatsby is a symbol of the death of the American Dream, since it showed how this excessive luxury, lack of morals and values, which is evident throughout the relationships of the main characters in the book. Eventually, these extramarital affairs lead to a car accident which kills Myrtle Wilson, Tom's lover. Tom then in revenge tells George, Myrtle's husband, that it was Gatsby who had killed her, when it was actually Daisy who was driving the car. And while Gatsby rests in his backyard pool, George gives the death blow that ends Gatsby's life, and eventually the American Dream. Somehow the message of the story tries to portray how excessive consumerism and pleasure will never make you satisfied and its desire for more will only lead to destroy their own lives.