The things they Carried written by Tim O'brien, The great gatsby written by F. scott Fitzgerald, and Monster written by Walter Dean Myers prove that individuals will ignore their morals in order to achieve their own wrongful desires.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" illuminates the idea of "morality collapsing …show more content…
This fueled everything that led to be in The Great Gatsby because Gatsby's desire for a taken woman caused him to become something he was not. Gatsby turned into a monster and ultimately lost his entire life.
Sadly, Gatsby's becoming is evident reason that an individual will ignore their own morals in order to pursue a deeper desire. Also from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, we meet Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married and is living an overall successful life until she learns that Mr. Jay Gatsby is still around. Daisy and Jay were ex lovers that never got their closure and this caused major issues once they came to see each other for the first time in years. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before." (Fitzgerald, …show more content…
scott Fitzgerald, and Monster written by Walter Dean Myers prove that individuals will ignore their morals in order to achieve their own wrongful desires. This is evident in the adultery committed by Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, Rat Kiley's catch .22 with being sent to war and fear of death so he went out as a coward by shooting himself in the foot and then Steve Harmon being placed on trial for murder and having the choice of lying to protect himself or telling the truth and facing incarceration. Without morality, there is no right and there is only wrong, therefore we must begin the fight for what is