The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, can be related to the world in many different ways. One connection is to the war in Iraq. When Wilson kills Gatsby, it could remind someone of a member of the Taliban. This group usually does what it pleases and if that means killing an innocent person, the innocent will die. Wilson, in this case, can be related to a Taliban member. This is because he intrudes onto Gatsby’s property and shoots him while he is defenseless. After the incident, the only evidence of the killer was the sight of his “body a little way off in the grass”(162). Like Wilson, the Taliban barely leaves any evidence that can be mapped back to them. The author also relates this situation to the holocaust because the killing of Gatsby is easily relatable to the killing of innocent Jews in concentration camps. Altogether, throughout his novel, Fitzgerald makes countless references to events in the outside world such as the two above.
I agree that Wilson shares qualities with members of the Taliban, but not the same qualities that you presented. Both are driven by a single goal: the Taliban's is religious and Wilson's is secular, but both are vengeful in nature and both are a retaliation for perceived wrongs. Ultimately, they result in the same aftermath. There is a key difference that should be noted though, the Taliban believe in an eternal reward for their actions while Wilson has yet to even think of the consequences.
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