George Wilson is a pitiful character who craves a lot of sympathy. He is clearly desperate to make his wife happy. Sadly he is not capable to keep her happy. He really loves Myrtle, but is unable to buy her a wonderful life she desires, a life of comfort and wealth. They lived ashy place literally it was called The Valley of Ashes, surrounded by gray, grim decay: a symbol of their terrible existence. When George strongly feels that Myrtle is having an affair; he got hurtful and mean like something changed in him. He held her up in a room above the garage. His discovery, “I just got wised up to something funny the last two days”, it made him physically ill and he has decided that he and Myrtle would be moving to the west, “Weather she likes it or not”, apparently he thinks this is going to put to his wife's affair. …show more content…
He is consisted and damaged by wealth. His arrogance makes him boorish and racist. He believes that women are pure simple (playthings). When he saw that daisy is involved in affair with with Jay Gatsby, he is flabbergasted. “She had told him that she loves him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and looked at gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago”, Tom laters confronts Jay about the affair and reminds him about what Tom and Daisy had. Until Tom and Jay frighten Daisy so that she quits and declares to Jay “Oh, you want way too much!”. The words spawn the unravelling of all that Jay had planned for himself and Daisy and gives Tom the upper hand, so much so that he later boldly tells his wife “you two start on home,Daisy.” “in Mr. Gatsby’s