... ; 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... , 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... who abandon their spiritual values in pursuit of material wealth. The eyes also frown down on other morally corrupt characters guilty of various vices (e.g., Tom Buchanan, Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan). George Wilson, the owner of a rundown automobile shop at the edge of The Valley of Ashes, associates T.J. Eckleburg's eyes with the omniscient eyes of God. After the death of his ... wife, Wilson yells to a friend, "God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!" (Fitzgerald 159). In return, ... ...

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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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... as professional football players in the sense that they have fame and fortune, yet they still get busted for illegal activities like trafficking drugs. In the climax Daisy killed Ms. Wilson in Gatsby's car and sped off due to the moment. This is similar to when Princess Diana was killed in a car accident and the paparazzi fled the scene. Later Jay ... Gatsby is killed by Mr. Wilson, who thinks Gatsby was driving that car that killed his wife. Jay Gatsby was a rich man who did anything for money and Daisy's love. He went to great lengths like ... buying a mansion and changing his name g...

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... emotions and his dream of being with the girl he has always loved. "Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name. "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson. "I"ll say it whenever I want to!" Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand." (Pg ... ...

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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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... "deep books with long words in them"(pg. 17) in order to have something to talk about. Though he appears happily married to Daisy, Tom has an affair with Myrtle Wilson and keeps an apartment with her in New York. Tom's basic nature of unrest prevents him from being satisfied with the life he leads, and so he creates another life ... Buchanans are the ultimate examples of wealth and prosperity, the epitome of the rich life of the American Dream, yet their lives are empty, unfulfilled, and without purpose. Though Myrtle Wilson makes an attempt to escape her own class and pursue happiness ...

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... which offered to carry the cross for Jesus. Gatsby and Jesus both deny the help of carrying the cross because they know it is their responsibility to finish their task. Wilson, which represents the Roman soldiers, then arrives at Gatsby's house to shoot him for Daisy's crime. Gatsby died because of a crime he did not commit just as Jesus died for ... to him for safety and salvation. Once she did, she understood that Tom was hateful and corrupted. She lived in happiness and bliss until a tragic event occurred. Daisy murdered Myrtle Wilson on the way home from New York. Frantic and fright...

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... of them can claim Daisy and truly achieve the American Dream. Thirdly, Myrtle's death symbolizes how the upper class hinders the rising middle class from achieving the American dream. Myrtle Wilson is one of Tom Buchanan's mistresses, a non-elitist woman aspiring to become more than simply Tom's mistress (absolute phrase). She desires to become Tom's lover. When Daisy runs "this ... desired Tom; however, she couldn't have him because Tom is with Daisy. She'll always be Tom's mistress, and never anything more because of Daisy's recklessness. After this incident, George Wilson goes out to...

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