... the room clueless, and Daisy suggest that they should all go into town, but she 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 ... wife. He goes on a hunt for the man who killed Myrtle. He goes to the Buchanan's house first, and when Daisy sees him come to the door, she begins to cry her eyes out, but Tom cannot figure out why. We assume Tom gave Mr. Wilson the...

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... , but she never did. She then married Tom, who had a higher 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 ... with Daisy that it would be a good idea. Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby's car, and Daisy and Gatsby rides together in Tom's car. On the way there they stop for gas at Wilson's garage for some gas. ...

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... that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay"" (83). 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 ... . " her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust" (145). Due to this tragedy, Myrtle's dream is not fulfilled. Tragically, the hopes and dreams of the characters of...

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... has an obligation to her family. Tom is pleased with him self, and easily sends Daisy and Gatsby in the car together, as he knows that Gatsby has lost. 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 did ... definitely observe the difference between social classes in this story, and how far people will go to obtain the position...

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... 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 the driver was and because Tom told him that it was Gatsby's car that had hit her. If Myrtle had not been killed or if Gatsby had ended up drivin...

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... 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 is, even when she is murdering someone, because she thinks that there's always someone who is going to take the responsibility for ... 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 Gatsby prevent them from receiving ed...

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... 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 her lover, finds Gatsby lounging in the pool at his house and kills him before turning the gun on himself. Nick arranges a small ... Daisy's suggestion that they should all go to New York together. Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby's car, and Gatsby and Daisy ride together in Tom's car. While stopping for gas at Wilson's garage, Nick, Tom, and Jordan learn that Geor...

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... by all that lived during the era. We see all three of these aspects perfectly 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 ... intangible. One of the major ways Daisy ended Gatsby's physical life was when she killed Myrtle in his car. "Anyhow- Daisy stepped on it. I tried to make her stop but she couldn't so I pulled on the ...

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... 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 daring to mention Daisy's name. Caught up in the bitterness of the Buchanans" turmoil, Nick finds himself immediately trapped as well in Gatsby's turbulent life. Gatsby's is a lavish world of weekend parties attended ... the five set out for New York, Daisy insists on riding with Gatsby in the Buchanans" car while Tom and the others follow in Gatsby's. Tom encourages Gatsby to use his own car to dr...

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... Dream, which is what Fitzgerald, is saying when Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby. Tom and Gatsby can't both have Daisy; only one 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 woman (Myrtle)" over with Gatsby's car because Myrtle "rushed out at us just as [...

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... stands for all of Gatsby's hopes and desires. Everyone has something 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). This led to Gatsby's death and the end to ... look on and remind the characters of the guilt that they forget to have for what they have done. Wilson said, "God sees everything" to Michaelis after Myrtle's death. When put "Just as Wi...

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... 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's unrequited love for Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy could be said to have an unhealthy relationship since Gatsby only had a short relationship ... with her, a relationship she soon got over, though he never did. Love in this novel often seems to be 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 Myr...

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... my hand reached the wheel I felt the shock-it must have killed her instantly....I tried to make her stop but she couldn't (144)". In this quote Gatsby and Daisy are driving home, and Myrtle runs into the street, where Daisy runs her over. The reason why I think this quote is significant is because, since it was an accident daisy could have ... was on 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 murd...

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... a fool, that's the best thing a girl can be in this world today, a beautiful little fool."" (Pg 17). Daisy's true character was revealed when she rejected Gatsby one final time, but never owned up for the death of Myrtle Wilson, leaving Gatsby as the one responsible. Myrtle Wilson was not the greatest of 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, who was not a bad person, but unfortunate enough ... as careless as yourself."" ...

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... feel that she did this because people then did not hold her accountable for her actions because she was weak. Which is what happened when she hit and killed Myrtle Wilson while driving Gatsby's car. Myrtle Wilson is married to George but having an affair with Tom Buchanan. She lives in an apartment above a service station with her husband but when she is out with ... Tom she portrays herself to be someone with money and class. It appears that Tom likes Myrtle for her loud personality and large frame. It seems to me that he appreciates ... characters were intertwined with each other and...

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... 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 Wilson, when he...

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... is there. They look over the situation, objectively, but offer a kind of judgment on the characters and their actions. They are placed near Wilson's because that is where some of the most selfish acts take place, like Myrtle's death and Tom's affair. All of these crimes go unpunished. So they eyes look on and remind the characters of the guilt that they ... I Tom was using his wealth to sweep Daisy off her feet. Tom is a yuppy and clearly in the way of Gatsby's love for Daisy. He is having an affair, which he makes no attempt to keep secret, with Myrtle Wilson while stringing along Myrt...

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... to Nick's house is the enormous home of Mr. Gatsby. One evening, Nick has dinner with his distant cousin Daisy Buchanan. There he meets her husband Tom and their lady friend Jordan Baker. During the visit, Nick learns that Tom has a mistress named Myrtle Wilson, who owns a gas station with her husband. Later ... that week, Nick is invited to one of Gatsby's famous parties where he than encounters Jordan Baker once again. They sit at a table together and find ... in the course of the conversation, Tom perceives that his wife is in love with Gatsby. They all end up going to the city, wit...

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... Island in the 1920's. Jay Gatsby depicts the young man desperate to win the acceptance of the old money, elitist class, and in particular the love of his former partner, Daisy Buchanan. As the story unfolds, it becomes easily apparent that Fitzgerald portrays women in a negative fashion. In particular, Fitzgerald uses Daisy, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson to illustrate the disapproving qualities of ... carelessness, selfishness, dishonesty and hypocrisy. Over the years, Gatsby imagines Daisy as the perfect girl that he once knew before the war. Upon his first meeting with her in five yea...

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... until it is gone, or until you think you are about to lose it. Adding even more to his heartlessness, Tom snitched on Gatsby to Wilson. It was not even Gatsby's fault but he was killed anyway, because of Tom. When Nick met him on the street after everything had blown over, Tom did ... know. Tom probably did the whole cheating thing because he wasn't being satisfied at home. When you compare the two women, Daisy and Myrtle, I would probably say that Myrtle would be the more "adventurous" type. As the book describes, Daisy was a very sophisticated woman, so she might have been too tame for...

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... , Gatsby's love for Daisy is an example of Courtly Love. The theme of the Grail Romance is that of the land 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 see this when Myrtle is telling Tom and others that it was ... changing her outfits a couple of times a day and buying a polic...

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... with playing the role of the woman that everyone wanted to be, Daisy is also the role of Jay Gatsby's dream. Daisy is everything that Gatsby lives for and he has addresses his whole life to her. She is responsible for Gatsby's fate when George Wilson murders him. Furthermore, Jordan is a high-middle class woman who analyzes the role of a flapper girl and dishonesty ... a golf tournament. And cheating is not exactly considered a loyal act. In addition to Daisy and Jordan, Myrtle represents the low class and plays the role of trying to be a rich woman who is always in search of improving ...

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... his nouveau riche standard. Similar to the green light, the eyes of T.J. Eckleberg portray more than one theme but mostly represent the theme of seeing. George Wilson looks up at the eyes and claims that they are the eyes of God, "and I said "God knows what you've been doing, everything you ... but you can't fool God!" Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of T.J. Eckleberg." (160) Wilson spoke the truth, in that that the eyes do watch over many important events that unfold in the novel. For instance, they watched over the affair with ... valley...

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... into 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 ... Jordan as the big showdown between Tom and Gatsby comes to light and Daisy tells Tom she's leaving him. (Fitzgerald 133) Afterwards, Nick and Jordan get into the car with Tom and head for the city. They happen upon the sc...

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... 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 hot ... and stuffy summer months, people tend to become antsy, nervous, and do not feel comfortable staying in one place. Gatsby personifies corruption with his weekly extravagant parties and his desire for material possessions. Because of this desire, he pursued an illegal profession commonly termed " ... of the time. His excessiv...

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