Newsday On a Saturday evening, in the Valley of Ashes a young lady named Myrtle Wilson was a victim in a hit and run. Wife to a man that owned a car shop, George Wilson. George Wilson was in a dispute prior to such a despicable crime. George never wanted anything to happen to his wife. The last words exchanged between each other happen to be nothing but negative. There was an eye witness that saw Mrs. Wilson and her husband fighting and then her running out of the house to be soon hit by a yellow coupe. Husband, George Wilson states in an interview, “she was the most beautiful girl I’ve ever laid my eyes on. She was perfect in my eyes. That’s why I married her. I feel guilty even though she was responsible for having an affair with another man. I feel guilty because, I didn’t pay as much attention to her as I could’ve and now I have to live with …show more content…
I don’t really feel good, sir. I feel sick; I think I want to be left alone.” As the interviewer’s approached Tom Buchanan and George Wilsons conversation Tom tells George he knows who hit his wife. Mr. Buchanan tells Mr. Wilson it was Gatsby. We now have to find Mr. Gatsby and confront him about this situation to see if Mr. Buchanan is correct. On a beautiful Sunday morning, found dead Mr. Gatsby and George Wilson. Mr. Gatsby was found under water, with a bullet wound through his heart. George Wilson was found with a gun near him and it seems to be a murder suicide. Sadly, both men were dead and there was only one witness but one man supposedly heard it all over the telephone. Here with us, we have Mr. Gatsby’s assistant and Nick the man that was on the phone that morning. Nick states after the tragedy over his good friend Gatsby,” I’m in total shock when I raced over to see Gatsby I couldn’t believe my eyes. There he was under water not breathing. I don’t like to talk about things like this, especially when it is someone dearest to
Mr. Wilson reportedly told Mr. Michaelis that he was keeping his wife locked upstairs before they would move west in a few days. According to Mr. Michaelis, Mrs. Wilson was heard in the evening arguing with her husband, and seen running towards the death car as if intending to speak to the person inside, clearly unaware that this car would be the cause of her
(May 29th 1922) - A shattered corpse of a woman was found at the valley of ashes last Saturday night at 9.30 pm. Eyewitnesses stated that she was hit by a yellow Rolls Royce, and a number of them suspect the vehicle was in the possession Jay Gatsby. This shouldn’t be a new lead that police have gotten a hold of, as rumors of several hit and runs incidents have been reported throughout New York. According to police reports, the victims name was Myrtle Wilson. Her close friend explained that she was the spouse of George Wilson, a garage owner in the industrial wasteland of the valley of ashes.
Wilson heard Gatsby’s name from Tom and tracked him down. Wilson found Gatsby in his pool and shot him leaving “...a thin red circle in the water” (162). Wilson then shot himself “and the holocaust was complete” (162). As a result, Wilson was the one to stop Gatsby from reaching his
Throughout the novel, Gatsby’s every action is inspired by his desire to court Daisy, and Jay believes that he will successfully woo her. However, this dream is soon put to a blunt and abrupt halt when Gatsby is killed by George Wilson, who is falsely led to believe that Gatsby killed his wife. The novel is narrated by Nick Carraway, who identifies as Gatsby’s
“He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave, and when I sent down word that we weren’t in he tried to force his way upstairs””(Fitzgerald 178). Gatsby gets betrayed by the woman he loved, who fails to tell George the truth about what happened to his wife. Tom backstabbed Gatsby in order to keep Daisy, and push her even further from Gatsby. He told Wilson that it was Gatsby’s car that killed his wife, but left out the fact that Daisy was the one driving it. After Wilson left Tom and Daisy he came to Gatsby’s house and shot him, ending his life and his goal to be with Daisy.
By her running out to talk to Tom, it gave her another chance to make sure her idea of her dream came true. Nick narrates and says, “Myrtle Wilson’s body, wrapped in a blanket, and then in another blanket, as though she suffered from a chill in the hot night, lay on a work table and Tom was bending over it, motionless” (138). Myrtle’s dream did not come true as she was killed and Tom was left speechless. He did not know how to act as he saw Myrtle’s body laying there, thinking that everything they knew together was completely gone. Tom had to act in a respectful manner so that he would not show that they have had a previous
From what it sounds like, Mr. Wilson didn't have much to lose and was angry with Mr. Gatsby for everything to do with his wife. From the crime scene it looks like that Mr. Gatsby was by the pool when George Wilson came by and decided to shoot Mr. Gatsby. When he shot Mr. Gatsby, he was
“Before he could move from his door the business was over” (137) Myrtle was dead, what else did he have to live for other than revenge. Wilson was driven to insanity and Myrtle was one of the leading
Furthermore, he leads George B. Wilson to believe that Gatsby is Myrtle’s killer. This results in Gatsby’s death, but Tom feels no
CASE FILE VICTIM: MYRTLE WILSON TIME: 22:00 P.M. DATE: Aug.26.1922 SITE: GEORGE WILSON’S AUTOSHOP, VALLEY OF ASHES An incident took place last night at about 10.00 pm in front of George Wilson’s auto shop in which Myrtle Wilson, his wife, was killed by a speeding car racing down the road as she tried to cross to the other side. the car was bright yellow, and the driver ended up speeding away after hitting her, according to eye witnesses.
However, Wilson uses violence under much more extreme conditions. For instance, when he is talking to Michaelis about Myrtle’s death, he says “It was the man in that car. She ran out to speak to him and he wouldn’t stop”(87). This quote shows that Wilson believes the driver of the car that killed Myrtle was performing an act of murder. This revelation and earlier discovery of his wife’s affair pushes him to the brink of reality, and he believes there is no solution other than to avenge his wife’s death.
“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” (Fitzgerald 112). This quote is referring to Nick and the gardener carrying Gatsby’s dead body inside. George Wilson had shot Gatsby and then shot himself. This murder and suicide are the peak of violence portrayed in The Great Gatsby. Wilson was devastated because of Myrtle, his beloved wife.
(141) said Tom, blaming Myrtle's death on Gatsby. George goes on to kill Gatsby thinking he is the reason that Myrtle is dead but it’s really Tom’s. This proves most importantly how Gatsby didn’t deserve to get murdered and it was an unfair
In Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are two characters by the names of Tom Buchanan and George Wilson. Throughout the book, these two particular characters seem to be very different from each other in nearly every way. However, it becomes clear as the story continues that they share some ideas and attitudes in common. Specifically, Tom and George were noteworthy in the way they felt about women, the methods by which they conveyed violence, and how they responded to their wives cheating on them.