The Role Of Censorship In The Great Gatsby

Ginger Shaffer
Period 4
The Great Gatsby
The novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic novel that is read in many high schools read around the world. But, it is on the top list for debatable censorship. Censorship is the control of the information and ideas that circulate within a society. This novel should be banned due to many reasons such as: drug use, untrustworthy marriage, offensive language, abuse, and murder. The book has everything in it that a student should not read until later in life. In the beginning of the book, Tom Buchanan is married to a woman named Daisy who is cousins with the main character Nick Carraway. Tom was cheating on his wife with a woman named Myrtle. When they got there, they started to drink alcohol. “I had been…show more content…
Mr. Gatsby accidently murdered Myrtle by running her over with his car. Myrtle’s husband found out that he killed her and went looking for him. He went to his house and shot him in the back before he was about to get in the pool. After he killed Mr. Gatsby, he shot himself in the head. Children should not be allowed to read about how somebody killed themselves by shooting themselves in the head. “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off the grass, and the holocaust was complete.”(162) In conclusion, The Great Gatsby should be banned for many reasons such as: drug use, offensive language, abuse, and murder. This novel may be a classic but it has many inappropriate parts throughout it.

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