... Nick gets caught up in Gatsby'sglamorous? lifestyle. Soon, everyone is involved in scandal, Daisy's cheating on Tom with Gatsby, Tom's cheating on Daisy with Mrs. Wilson, and Nick's caught in the middle. Gatsby ends up convincing Nick to get Daisy to come to Gatsby's house, because they had a history together. Daisy comes, ... in town, Tom and Daisy fight, so Gatsby drives Daisy home in Tom's car. On the way, they hit a woman who turns out to be Mrs. Wilson who was thought the person in the car was Tom, and was trying to talk to him. All the while, Nick starts realizing how terrible a li...

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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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... social status than Gatsby at the time. Although Daisy remained faithful to her husband throughout their marriage, Tom did not. Tom was having an affair with George Wilson's wife Myrtle. George owned an automotive garage in the valley. Gatsby would like for Nick to arrange a tea party at Nick's house without Daisy knowing that ... owner Michaelis, tells Nick he saw the whole thin. After describing the car Nick realizes that Gatsby car struck and killed Myrtle. Tom thinks that Mr. Wilson will remember the car from when they stopped for gas. Tom also assumes that Gatsby is the driver. Nick...

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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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... 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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Hopes and Dreams In The Great Gatsby there are two characters that are very much alike. These two characters are Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. Both of these characters focus on their hopes and dreams on winning the love of a person they cannot have. Jay Gatsby's dream woman is ... Gatsby goes to the extremes to be near his love Daisy. The other character we come across with is Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle is having an affair with Tom Buchanan. Myrtle is married to George Wilson who owns a garage. Since Wilson's business is not very successful, he unable to afford the finer things in life for Myrtle. ...

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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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... shows his opinion that women generally have low moral qualities, and demonstrates this by the actions and speech illustrated by the three female characters: Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. In the eyes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan was the typical depiction of the rich, young, married woman of the 1920's. Although she was capable of showing warmth at certain ... characters on her own either. While Daisy's character was a balance between nave and cheery, Myrtle did not once show any sign of maturity or consideration. When the topic of Mr. Wilson was brought up, w...

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... Things do not get any better, Daisy decides to drive home to cool herself off, but hits Myrtle Wilson Tom's mistress on the way, killing her instantly. Daisy in a panic does not stop the car. George Wilson, Myrtle's husband is devastated, and when Tom arrives on the scene, George keeps saying he knows who ... 's in "The Great Gatsby" are very interesting. The main characters consist of Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Jordan Baker, Daisy and Tom Buchanan and Myrtle and George Wilson. Nick to me seems very honest and patient, he does not judge people straight away, he likes Jay Gatsby but sees...

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... , or seemingly a lack of it in some relationships, such as Tom and Daisy and the way in which Tom commits adultery with a mistress named Myrtle Wilson who is also committing the act of adultery upon her husband. There is also the example of the love that Daisy and Jay Gatsby share, or rather Gatsby ... tainted and deceitful as well as being very controversial. We see Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan's husband, cheating on her with a mistress by the name of Myrtle Wilson who is also married. This is an example of the tainted love they go endure, since Daisy knows of the affair, but says nothin...

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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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... Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Midway between West Egg and New York City lies a vast ash dump near, which are the garage and home of George and Myrtle Wilson. Significantly all the characters pass through this " valley of ashes, " a symbol of the unfertile wasteland they inhabit. It is here too, that the terrible ... Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, Nick learns that Tom is unfaithful and Daisy is aware of his habits. Tom insists that Nick meet his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Nick joins Tom and Myrtle at their private New York apartment. The climax of the party occurs when Tom breaks Myrtle's nose for ...

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... 't take it anymore. She runs out of the room with Gatsby at her heels. Gatsby and Daisy drive home together. While they"re on their way home, a woman named Myrtle Wilson runs into the middle of the street. They hit and kill her. Instead of getting out of the car like decent people, they just keep on driving. Daisy was behind ... blame, Daisy leaves town with her husband without giving Gatsby so much as a phone call. Before Tom and Daisy leave town, Tom tells Wilson, Myrtles husband, that Gatsby was the one driving the Car that killed Wilson's wife. After that, Wilson goes to Gatsby's hou...

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... Jordan Baker, a woman that he begins a romantic relationship with. The first revelation of the movie comes when Jordan informs Nick that Tom is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle (and her husband) live in the valley of ashes, a dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. As both the story and the summer progress, Nick finally accepts ... that Daisy was driving the car, but that he plans to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle's husband that Gatsby was the driver of the car. Mr. Wilson, who assumes that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle was ...

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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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... him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart"(25). He has numerous affairs in particular one with Myrtle Wilson. He was a hypocrite after being disloyal to Daisy when she started an affair with Gatsby he was offended. He had an unusual short temper and a gift for gaining revenge. Upon ... losing his temper with Myrtle Wilson, his mistress, without a thought, "Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand"(41). Tom displayed his immoral and cunning side when he took advantage of ... George...

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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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... 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 ... killed by it when Daisy and Gatsby drive home. This can be interpreted that the dream was too much for her and the inevitable downfall. Wilson has a connection to the American dream because of Myrtle. He is shown to be the poorest of all the characters in the novel. When you are poor ... ...

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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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... careless. There seems to be no fear of consequence or of judgment. That is why the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg are there. These eyes stare out from a billboard that looks over Wilson's garage. The eyes are always mentioned whenever Nick is there. They look over the situation and offer a kind of judgment on the characters and their actions ... them the eyes of God, "God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing."(167) They are placed near Wilson's because that is where some of the most selfish acts take place: Myrtle's death, Tom's affair. In these crimes the guilty went unpu...

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