Every character has moments in the book where they are immoral but some more so than others. Tom is the novels main antagonist and is probably the most immoral in to the story when compared to the other characters. Tom antagonizes and coaxes Mr.Wilson to kill Gatsby and then runs away from the problem as if he was never a part of it in the first place. Although Tom does not do anything that is much different from the other characters his actions are the most intended to hurt others.
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Daisy is easily responsible for a lot of things such as Myrtles death, Gatsby’s death, being a gold digger, and many other things. Daisy basically manipulated Gatsby into believing that she was in love with him and then ran off Tom in the end.
Any person who has read The Great Gatsby knows that Nick Carraway is at least more moral than Tom, Gatsby and Daisy but that by no means makes him a moral person. While he never truly does anything immoral, he completely lets everyone else do it without saying anything or giving a second thought to it. Nick is the one that invites Daisy over for tea with Gatsby even though he knows she is married to Tom. Also, he keeps Gatby’s secret about the car crash with Myrtle a secret. He is a simple example of “doing nothing is still doing something,” Although Nick does not encourage bad behavior from the other characters, he still doesn’t absolutely nothing to stop it.
In the Great Gatsby Myrtle is probably the right behind first in being the most moral. Although she shows pride, greed, envy, and lust which are four of the seven deadly sins. She cheats on her husband with Tom because she is very materialistic in knowing that Tom can spoil her unlike her husband can. She shows envy on page 119 when she is looking at Tom and Jordan in Gatsby’s car and she thinks Jordan is