... Myrtle, the next one of this dream. Having anything you want is part of the American dream, even though it is a married man you want and Myrtle Wilson wants Tom Buchanan. Right away we see a glimpse of her morality, which she has none because she has traded it in to achieve the American dream. She ... to accept Tom's money and even his brutality, even after he breaks her nose on the party ",tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."(Fitzgerald 39). Beside the love of her husband, this is not enough; her fortitude to obtain what she wants causes her downfall and in the end even her d...

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... being laid waste, a "wasteland," where the surface does not represent the actuality of what it is supposed to be representing. This is illustrated in the novel by George and Myrtle Wilson's marriage. The "wasteland" is where everyone is living an inauthentic life, doing as other people do, doing as you're told, with no courage for your own life, and we ... , and then Catherine says, " She really ought to get away from him, They've been living over a garage for eleven years. And Tom's the first sweetie she ever had." (pg.39) Myrtle is with George because she has no one else and wants to m...

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... The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby are two prestigious novels that have made a tremendous impact on the literary world. Each novel possesses certain ideas that touch peoples'lives and spark their interest. These novels are able to be comparatively contrasted by pointing out specific differences and similarities between the two. One such difference is the time setting in which the ... to lie and cheat to hide their own iniquities. The lies that occur between Hester Prynn and the government have a close relationship to the lies that are told by Myrtle Wilson to her husband. The cheat...

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... ; Jay Gatsby. The book focuses on Gatsby and his foolish attempts to get a married woman. But, two unaccounted characters are Nick Caraway and George Wilson. Fitzgerald uses these seemingly small characters to convey how an individual's can affect another individual. In The Great Gatsby, Nick is portrayed to be Gatsby's ... . It can be said, that Myrtle is to be blamed for her own death, as a result of her shameful relationship with Tom. Although Wilson was not affected directly when Myrtle was cheating, he experienced the repercussions after she died. The actions of Myrtle took him on a ...

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... can't go through this alone- (173). Gatsby was to die alone with his dream unfulfilled, without love. It was the end for Gatsby, but it wasn't Wilson that killed Gatsby; it was his love of money. Gatsby's dream caused him to make some decisions that he shouldn't have made, his mind was clouded by ... we were passing a car coming the other way."" (151). By allowing Daisy to drive Gatsby was in part responsible for the death of Myrtle. Wilson thought it was Gatsby that was driving, mistaking Gatsby as the one who Myrtle was cheating with he decided to kill Gatsby. Devastated by the death ....

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... in Mr. Buchanan when he discusses his attitudes towards the superiority of the white race as well as his secret affair with Myrtle Wilson. "Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand" (39). Myrtle speaking of Daisy's name was enough to enrage this "hulking" man, as Daisy describes Tom (17). To add, Jay ... ...

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... of Ashes; once someone is stuck there that is their final resting place. This is the place where the deaths and dreams for Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and George Wilson, these characters die due to misconception and anger. Once a character is placed in the Valley of Ashes it is only a matter of time before ... point. This location is like the light at the end of the tunnel. While in New York City Tom Buchanan has a scandalous affair with Myrtle Wilson. She doesn't care about anyone except those who will help guide her on the correct path to improve her life, as she thought Tom would have...

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... the hotel before Nick, Tom, and Jordan, something Tom allows to prove to Gatsby Daisy's faithfulness in her marriage. During the drive home, Tom stops to investigate a commotion at Wilson's garage. Mr. Wilson is Tom's mistress' husband, and thus he is rather well acquainted with Tom. This commotion, Tom finds out, happens because Daisy killed Tom's mistress Myrtle in a hit-and-run ... . When Wilson regains his senses from his grief, he confronts Tom with a gun at Tom's home. Tom convinces Wilson that Gatsby killed his wife, and thus the book ends with Gatsby being shot by Wilson. Wilson ...

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... the hotel before Nick, Tom, and Jordan, something Tom allows to prove to Gatsby Daisy's faithfulness in her marriage. During the drive home, Tom stops to investigate a commotion at Wilson's garage. Mr. Wilson is Tom's mistress' husband, and thus he is rather well acquainted with Tom. This commotion, Tom finds out, happens because Daisy killed Tom's mistress Myrtle in a hit-and-run ... . When Wilson regains his senses from his grief, he confronts Tom with a gun at Tom's home. Tom convinces Wilson that Gatsby killed his wife, and thus the book ends with Gatsby being shot by Wilson. Wilson ...

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... portrayed in The Great Gatsby, a novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. In this novel, the main character Jay Gatsby is shot by George Wilson. Even though Gatsby was physically killed by Wilson, there are many other characters who contributed to the end of his physical and metaphysical life. Daisy Buchannan played a very active role in ... on it. I tried to make her stop but she couldn't so I pulled on the emergency brake" (Fitzgerald 151). By Daisy murdering Myrtle, Wilson was driven to revenge his wife's death. Daisy allowed Gatsby to cover for her careless and selfish action too. This set...

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... as better or worse than it really is (dictrionary.com). When Tom takes Nick to meet his mistress Myrtle, he talks about George Wilson, who is Myrtle's husband. He states, "Wilson? He think she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive" (26 ... ). This is an example of exaggeration because someone cannot be so unintelligent that they do not know they are alive. Tom says this about Wilson because it is so obvious to everyone else that Myrtle is cheating on George except to George himself. He exaggerates the fact that he is dumb ... chooses to remain with B...

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... rides with Gatsby instead of her husband. This is when Tom realizes that Daisy is cheating on him with Jay. On the way home, Daisy is driving by Myrtle Wilson's home, and Myrtle runs out into the street thinking it is her lover, Tom, (Daisy's philandering husband) coming back for her. But Daisy was engaged in conversation ... and killed her. Tom came through town a while later to see the accident scene with people standing all around. He then proceeded in closer to see Mr. Wilson in tears and to find out that Myrtle had been run over by a car and killed. He later finds out that the car w...

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... other Neauveaux riche characters, such as Meyer Wolfsheim. Also the near death of the American dream can be seen in the working class people of Wilson and Myrtle. Unbridled materialism can be terrible and can have ghastly and horrid affects on the society, and of course, the American dream. ... to do with. Therefore, the working classes can work their entire lives and get absolutely nowhere. An excellent example of this inherent societal truth is Wilson. Wilson lives in the valley of ashes, representative of the land past the river Styx in Greek mythology, more commonly known as the Land...

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... escape goat of this tragedy. "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete" (162). This quotation demonstrates that Myrtle Wilson's husband George Wilson shoots Gatsby, because he thinks that Gatsby was responsible for Myrtle's death. This quotation also reveals how careless Daisy ... not have the same prosperity as you. Because the new money people do not have the wealthy backgrounds as the new money people do. The poverty of George and Myrtle Wilson and the former poverty of Gatsb...

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... that they long and search for that is just off in the distance. Gatsby's hope is destroyed by Tom's carelessness, rather then telling the truth he told Wilson that Gatsby ran over his wife. Tom told Nick: "He ran over Myrtle like you"d run over a dog and never even stop the car" (187). ... on (27). The eyes look over each situation, objectively, but offer a kind judgment on the characters and theirs actions. They are placed close to the Wilson's because that is where the most self-centered acts take place. All of these crimes go unpunished, so the eyes look on and remind the characters o...

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... green. The other car, the one going toward New York came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her dark blood with the dust. (144-145) Since Fitzgerald obviously has no difficulty ... this case, any description of the accident is totally omitted. In fact, you cannot even be certain, until the end of the second paragraph, that Myrtle Wilson was, in fact, hit by a car. The same lack of detail is evident in Fitzgerald's depiction of Gatsby's death: The chauffeur " he ... there is a re...

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... . F. Scott Fitzgerald revealed the negativity of this time period, opening viewers eyes to adapt to the lifestyle of society that wasn't so glamorous. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan are all symbols of people in the lost generation in America during the early 1920's. Jay Gatsby was a man acknowledged for his riches, over the top parties ... 't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" (Fitzgerald 110) Gatsby was a fool to love by the false faces and emotions of society; a traditional man who didn't belong. Myrtle Wilson was a money hungry spouse and mistres...

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... the revolver every minute he was in the house (178)." Although this wasn't the quote where Mr. Wilson kills Gatsby, I chose it because it showed the reasoning behind why Mr. Wilson shot Gatsby, and it also tells who was behind Gatsby's murder along with Mr. Wilson. Tom assumed Gatsby was driving the car, even though he wasn't, so I feel Tom was just as ... responsible for Gatsby death as Mr. Wilson. In conclusion "The Great Gatsby" was filled with different moral turpitudes like, decadence, rumors/gossip, and murder. Even though, these characters acts were immoral, they all had reason ...

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... the book though, things, such as Nick's morality, start to come into question. With people he believes to be less than him, he is still less charitable. He meets Myrtle Wilson, Tom's mistress and thought to himself, "there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering." (Fitzgerald 25) Nick carefully ... ) Afterwards, Nick and Jordan get into the car with Tom and head for the city. They happen upon the scene of Myrtle's death in which both Mr. Wilson and Tom are devastated. Mr. Wilson at first believes it was Tom who killed her...

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... this decay and the eyes of TJ Eckelburg symbolize God looking at the decaying morals and the plight of the poor. A victim of the bad morality of the rich, George Wilson lives next to the valley of ashes. The mood of The Great Gatsby, hot in the middle of summer, reveals something about why characters act the way they do. During ... his wife, also helps to show the moral decay of the time. His excessive and selfish ways lead to the unhappiness of his family and the death of Myrtle Wilson, her husband George Wilson, and Jay Gatsby. Nick, close to the opposite of Gatsby, personifies morali...

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... color black. Black symbolizes "Absorption of negativity and the destruction of negativity"(N. Davis). Gray is mostly related to the Valley of Ashes and Wilson. The black atmosphere surrounding it represents the hopelessness of their insolvent situation. "This is the valley of ashes.../where ashes take the forms of ... ashes and chimneys and rising smoke"(27), the ashes represent the black and how it puts a negative burden on Wilson and restricts him from future success. Gold also has an important meaning in the story. Gold symbolizes "God, healing, money power, and wildlife ... color bla...

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... Great Gatsby illustrates how the 1920's society declines from a respectable, honest environment into a careless and selfish community. The billboard, depicting Dr. T.J. Eckleburg's eyes, is called "the eyes of God" by Wilson, as it witnesses every immoral and careless event happening in the valley of ashes and its surroundings. By examining Gatsby's parties and their consequences, the affairs in the novel and ... either, showing they are hollow people who only care about themselves. "The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop." (p.144) This is how "her life [Myrtle Wilson'...

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... her husband's mistress without even realizing it. She knew that Tom was having an affair but she didn't make the connection to Myrtle Wilson, the woman she ran over. Tom indirectly caused the murder of Gatsby because he told Wilson who the owner of the car was that had hit Myrtle, but knowing quite well that Gatsby wasn't the one driving. Gatsby ... was killed because Wilson believed that he was the one that Myrtle was having an affair with. He thought this because of how Myrtle ran out to the car as if she knew who ... Gatsby's car that had hit her. If Myrtle had not been killed or i...

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... with money , and materialism.It shows that money does not necessarily buy happiness . Tom and Daisy believed they could get away with anything , because they had money. Tom uses Wilson to tell Mytrle to go to New York " "I want to see you ," said Tom intently."Get on the next train." " Later when ... Wilson accused Tom of killing Mytrle , Tom immediately set him straight ""That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn't mine-do you hear? I haven't seen it all afternoon." " this shows ... leather shoes .." This shows the materialism of the people during 1920s in New York. The Valley o...

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... parties one could do something without going noticed. Jordan was the first to say something about Tom's affair, which makes her rather blunt. Myrtle Wilson is portrayed to be foolish and adulterous. Myrtle is married to George Wilson which owns a car garage in The Valley of Ashes. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe. (Fitzgerald ... anything to get out of the situation she is in, so she leaves George for Tom which beats her. She never really loved Tom, she just wanted his money. "Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road...

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