I never thought in my lifespan would I ever see my cousin, Daisy Buchanan, or her husband, Tom again, but here I am, sitting on the metroline to the new Buchanan residence. It has been nearly three years since the death of Jay Gatsby. He is long gone and laying firm in the ground, sharing his grave with fresh despondency, even after three years have passed. Myrtle Wilson resides in near ground to Gatsby, but she is covered with much more of a stiff shell than just dirt and soil. Of course, in a likely hidden, unmarked grave in the Valley of Ashes lay George Wilson, as well. He is probably the least missed man I can give my thoughts to. George Wilson has perhaps gone through the head of a group of New York policemen once in a blue moon, with luck. While gazing outside the rushing Thursday New York subway, I begin to wonder who else may have left the earth in my absence; I haven’t spoken to Jordan Baker in years. Her face hasn’t been featured on undistinguished newspapers in the last years, for what I know. My mind hasn’t focused on an unhonest woman in years, and I still am not quite sure why it has now. Perhaps Meyer Wolfsheim …show more content…
Before I could ask why she had called, she had revealed her reasons in vague light. “I’m having a bit of difficulty in my life, Nick. Is there anyway we could meet again, anyway at all?” She whimpered silently, it was a tone that reminded me of the screeching brakes on Jay Gatsby’s Rolls Royce, when, or if, he touched them, at least. I found it curious that Daisy was holding restrictions on her voice and words. It often wasn’t difficult for me to say no; in fact my stubborn side had almost forced me to tell her to come to my repugnant home if she wants to see me again. However, this was Daisy Buchanan I was on the line with. “We moved to the outskirts of New York City,” I heard her whisper into the
The year is 1861. You are a young boy only 10 years of age,named Tommy, your parents both died from smallpox. Every day it goes threw your head why did I not get the virus and die with them? and now you face a new challenge, living on you own or going to a workhouse and work day in and day out and for what?
Without the tabloids or Nick Carroway, common people do not get to catch sight of the small intricate details beyond the lights of the exclusive lives of Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan, Daisy, and Jay Gatsby. When the characters look at the old blue gigantic eyes on the Dr. T.J. Eckleburg billboard, they feel the sense of someone watching their every move. The same feeling Christians think of God watching from up above. That, however, did not stop Myrtle Wilson and Tom Buchanan from having their affair. Since it was behind closed doors, it did not even bother them until George Wilson, Myrtle’s unobservant husband, found out.
Wilson’s POV: As I approached Gatsby’s estate, I felt God’s eyes following my every movement, beckoning me to avenge my beloved wife who was ripped away from me. I was going to take her somewhere safe, where she would no longer be pursued by other men, but I failed her, I failed Myrtle. The monster Gatsby may have thought that he could escape from his sins, stealing my wife and then throwing her away like garbage, but God saw everything, and he could not run forever. His inconsiderate actions have angered our Father, who did not approve of such a manipulative man with revolting hauteur. Gatsby lived like a king in his castle, protected by his wealth, and oblivious to the consequences of his actions.
Myrtle is married to a man named Wilson, who has such love for her that her infidelity tears him up inside. The novel ends with tragedy, and with three of the main characters dead. Through the juxtaposition of the characters Gatsby and Wilson, it is shown that when living in an idealized
In the novel The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in the 1920s, a man named Jay Gatsby who became rich through illegal means tries to win the heart of a woman named Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan’s wife. The wife of a garage owner named George Wilson, Myrtle, is also having an affair with Tom. Throughout the course of the novel, Tom and Wilson run into similar encounters. Both of them discover that their wives have been cheating on them and have comparable reactions. These discoveries and related events reveal their attitudes toward women and become violent.
Daisy!” shouted Mrs. Wilson. “I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai—” Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women’s voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.”
By convincing himself that Myrtle Wilson was killed by her secret lover, George Wilson uses the tragedy as an opening to decompress everything he had been bottling up within himself. Michaelis assures George Wilson after he finds out the news that Myrtle Wilson was killed by saying, “this has been a strain to you and you don’t know what you’re saying”, but unfortunately, George Wilson ignores him (Fitzgerald 166). Later, George Wilson continues to rant about how “God knows” what Myrtle Wilson was doing, and to Michaelis’s surprise, George Wilson is staring at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg (Fitzgerald 167). While it may seem humorous that George Wilson is so faithful to the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, the same foolishness can be seen in society during the 1920s because “business had become…the national religion of America” (Allen Doc E). For that reason, Fitzgerald uses George Wilson’s disillusionment towards his wife as a parallel to the business world during the
Following her recent death, Mrs. Wilson has been identified as Mr. Gatsby’s ‘Mystery Mistress’ who has been spotted many times inside his large mansion in West Egg. George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband has said that he knew she was having an affair, but with whom he did not know. In light of recent events, he had the following to say; “I loved Myrtle. We were planning
The author explains that Gatsby did all in his effort to get better for Daisy, but ended up dying in the midst of it. The author depicts this by stating, “Furthermore, his success obviously doesn’t last – he still pines for Daisy and loses everything in his attempt to get her back” (Wulick). The author also brings in the idea of George and Myrtle Wilson trying to achieve the American Dream. It is mentioned that George wants a better life just as much as Myrtle does. However, Myrtle seeks a better life through Tom and having him buy her materials.
Throughout The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson desired to fit in with the upper class; however, her marriage to George Wilson prevented such from occurring. Myrtle failed to recognize her husband’s hard work and true character due to her efforts to rise in social status. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald emphasized Myrtle’s hatred towards her marriage through her conversation with Catherine, depicting how people of the twenties focused more on wealth and power compared to moral American values. As readers closely evaluate the moment of Myrtle’s dialogue, she dictated her feelings towards her marriage in a way that supposedly justified her infidelity.
In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed as a modern woman; she is sophisticated, careless and beautifully shallow. Daisy knows who she is, and what it takes for her to be able to keep the lifestyle she grew up in, and this adds to her carelessness and her feigned interest in life. In all, Daisy is a woman who will not sacrifice material desires or comfort for love or for others, and her character is politely cruel in this way. Daisy’s main strength, which buoyed her throughout her youth and when she was in Louisville, is her ability to know what was expected of her and feign cluelessness.
If his mind is not occupied by his mistress Myrtle, he is drowning in thoughts of Gatsby’s suspected crime-filled life. “Indeed, Tom Buchanan's sources appear most reliable in his characterization of Gatsby's drug store chain as ‘just small change’ compared to his stolen bonds” (Pauly 116). Buchanan is a hypocrite towards Gatsby. He denounces Gatsby’s life actions as being morally evil but Tom’s actions are no different than Gatsby’s in the sense that both men are unfaithful to themselves and their nearest relationships. Tom is competing with Gatsby through deception and treachery, and their dangerous habits wound them
Polo player Tom Buchanan had an ongoing relationship with George Wilson 's wife Myrtle that ended very dramatically with the death of Myrtle in a car accident as well as causing the murder of Jay Gatsby. It was not till this time where George started to realize that his wife was having an affair and this made him very upset as Nick says “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world and the shock had made him physically sick. ”(Fitzgerald 130). Tom took Gatsby 's car to get gas at George 's garage on his way to the city to meet with Gatsby. While getting gas Myrtle saw that it was Tom in the car and was upset because she was locked in a room and wasn 't allowed to see anyone.
Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, develops as Tom leads Nick into the heart of New York. Coincidentally, the area the two are driving through is home to Tom’s notorious mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle is also cheating on her husband, George Wilson, the mechanic in town. Myrtle’s key trait throughout the chapter is immense vanity and conceitedness. The way Myrtle acts and lives overly contradicts the area she is inhabiting, however shows her true character.
Tom Buchanan's secret lover and the wife of George Wilson V. Themes In The Great Gatsby, the themes are obviously portrayed vividly and sometimes in heartbreaking ways. Everyone's lives revolve around the near caste-like social system, how the look to society, and how much wealth everyone has. Mortality, one of the sad themes in the story, is portrayed in various, unexpected way. The death of Myrtle Wilson is a significant example of mortality.