... 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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... same car, discovered a frightening site of someone killed on the road. A Greek man who runs the restaurant next to the Wilson's told them that the person killed was Myrtle, Wilson's wife. Myrtle had also been Tom's lover. Tom immediately sensed that she was probably killed by the car Gatsby and Daisy ... the interpretation of what individuals give them, we see in the last scenes of The Great Gatsby that Wilson, Myrtle's husband believed that Dr T.J Eckleburg's eyes is the ever watching eyes of God. Wilson spent the whole night telling Michaelis about Myrtle's love affair and how he had ...

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... is the fear of intimacy that dominates Tom Buchanan's character throughout the entire story. When Tom is introduced in the story, he is engaged in his latest affair with Myrtle Wilson, being just one of his many continuing extramarital affairs. In placing his interest, time, and energy in more than one woman it protects him from real intimacy with either. Tom ... intimacy. For Tom, Daisy represents social superiority; she's not the kind of woman who can be acquired by a "Mr. Nobody from nowhere" (Fitzgerald, p.137) like Jay Gatsby. Myrtle Wilson is used to boost Tom's sense of masculine...

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