... what the conceptual American Dream promises, " sitting on the edge of the wasteland, a sort of compact contiguous to absolutely nothing approached by a trail of ashes was a garage [George's]."" (p. 24) George Wilson couldn't achieve financial ability, because he, like Nick, is also alone. His garage is "contiguous to absolutely nothing-, referring that he, himself, is also alone and contiguous to no one ... ashen valley, further showing that society and the American Dream deserts him. Fitzgerald uses this fact to show the cruelties of the American Dream on an average Dreamer such as Wil...

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... , with characteristics similar to those of Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker. For instance, Tom Buchanan has an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a gas station proprietor down in the valley of the ashes - an industrial and unsightly area of Long Island that one ... that Myrtle's entire opinion about her husband changed when she discovered he borrowed his wedding suit demonstrates how fickle and petty she is. Myrtle Wilson's friends, the McKee's, are one-dimensional people who can talk about nothing else except for Mr. McKee's hobby and vocation of photography. ... the fe...

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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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... 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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... for he led the killer, Mr. Willison, to Gatsby. Even though he was in a tight situation to have stilled informed Gatsby about Mr. Wilson coming for him, however he did not. He did not ever feel barely guilty, as the following quote reveals: "Tom I inquire, what did you say to ... Jordan's dishonesty as a major flaw in her personality, and He didn't think she was worth it. Out of all of the relationships, Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson's was the most the most superficial. Neither had true feelings For the other, they were just there to amuse themselves. This one was Also the most damagin...

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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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