His feelings towards Gatsby were negative and full of hate, so he set the target on him when he told Wilson that it was a yellow car who had killed his wife and that he was a friend of the person who owned it. Which also leads to the death of George Wilson since it drives him to insanity and sets him on a mission to go and find that yellow car which didn’t take him that long. Since Tom was the real lover of Myrtle. He was the one driving the yellow car earlier
At this point, Gatsby’s American Dream had failed, as he did not get the opportunity to repeat his past with Daisy. Tom’s blindness causes him to view himself as a victim for losing Myrtle. I feel that it was Daisy’s stupidity and carelessness that lead to Myrtle’s death. Gatsby’s willingness to take responsibility for Myrtle’s death shows his unconditional love for Daisy as he is prepared to sacrifice anything for her. Gatsby corrupted himself and his dream to win Daisy’s heart.
This shows again that Tom did not care for Gatsby or what happened to him, even if it was Tom’s fault he died. Because Tom was the one who told Mr. Wilson about Gatsby’s car, Mr. Wilson then went and shot Gatsby out of anger and with no further evidence it was Gatsby’s fault. Since Tom was seen driving that car earlier, it was his actions that led both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson to see the yellow car. That is why when Myrtle ran
Despite the fact that Daisy was driving the car at the time of the accident, Tom convinces George that Gatsby was to blame for Myrtle's death. This idea leads George to seek vengeance on Gatsby, eventually leading to Gatsby's death. The two quotes from The Great Gatsby "He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car. His hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house."
Daisy is primarily the person at fault for Myrtle’s death, Tom also plays a role in the downfall after his mistress's death. Instead, Tom never confesses to Myrtle being his mistress and holds Gatsby accountable for her death. As for Daisy she allows Gatsby to take the fault for her mistakes and walks away with her hands clean. Following Myrtle's death comes Gatsby’s death. Rather than attending the funeral of the man she was in love with, Daisy leaves town with the man she “loved” in the past.
At the end of the novel George Wilson is searching for the car that ran over his wife Myrtle, George suspects that the owner was the one who had an affair with his George asks Tom about the yellow car because he was seen in it earlier “He was crazy enough to kill me if i hadn’t told him who owned the car.” (Fitzgerald 178). With little resistance Tom tells george that gatsby is the owner of the car knowing that george is ready to kill gatsby Tom does nothing to stop him because it does not concern him he just looks the other way and lets the heinous crime
In the Great Gatsby Movie, the alteration of the scene where Wilson suspects Gatsby highlights how Tom knew the result of his actions which ultimately changes Tom’s interpreted intentions within the book. Tom confessing Gatsby was the owner of the car led to the falling action in the novel which was the killing of Gatsby committed by Wilson. After the death of Myrtle, Wilson was mourning in his garage and when Michaelis mentions the car which hit her was a yellow custom car, Wilson realizes the car which hit Myrtle is the same car he saw Tom driving in when he needed gas. In an attempt to calm Wilson, Tom argues the yellow car wasn’t his
When Tom and the others make it to the site of the crash, Tom decides to stop and ends up realizing what had happened. A bystander then mentions the car that killed Myrtle being yellow, not wanting to be blamed for this accident, Tom “walked quickly over to Wilson and. seized him firmly” to explain himself (Fitzgerald 108). Tom tells Wilson that it was, in fact, Gatsby who killed Myrtle instead of him. Later, Nick finds Gatsby lingering around the Buchanan’s house after arriving home from the wreck, so he questions him about Gatsby’s involvement. Nick “suddenly [guesses] at the truth” and Gatsby finally becomes honest with Nick saying Daisy actually killed Myrtle (Fitzgerald
After being told Gatsby was the driver who killed Myrtle, George decided to make the decision to shoot Gatsby. One day while Gatsby was floating in his pool, George came up to him and shot him, killing him instantly, before then shooting himself. The pity here should be felt for Gatsby as we all know he was not the one driving the car. He was not the one who killed Myrtle. The one who killed Myrtle was Daisy, Tom’s wife, the girl Gatsby was after.
Perceptions lead to outcomes F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, takes place in a time of putting faith in others blindly, and how painting a false image of oneself can’t always get them what they truly want. My attention was drawn to the false personification of Gatsby and the faith he puts into others. He wants to obtain something from his past and will do anything to garner the attention of it. In order to do that, he puts his faith onto other companions to help him obtain what he himself craves. There are several scenes where false personification, intentions, and faith come into play.
There, conflict arises between Tom and Gatsby, and their world of fantasy becomes a world of rivalry and strife. In the midst of conflict, Myrtle Wilson is struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle. Nick later learns this vehicle to have been driven by Daisy; however, Gatsby shoulders the blame. Nick’s morality is tried one last time, as he must decide whether or not to let Gatsby take the blame for such a horrible incident. Nick ultimately decides to leave Gatsby despite the previous knowledge he acquired.
A series of events then occurs where Tom pins the murder on Gatsby resulting in Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson, killing Gatsby for what he assumed was justice. After everything Gatsby did for her from building his wealth from nothing and throwing large fancy parties just for her attention, Daisy lets Gatsby take the blame for what she did because she knew that he
Through this development, the reader quickly notices that Gatsby is readily willing to risk his own integrity and accept responsibility as the one responsible for the breakup of another person’s marriage. The apex of this sacrifice is reached when Myrtle is struck in a hit-and-run accident involving Gatsby’s car. Gatsby admits to Nick that Daisy was the one driving at the time of the accident, yet fails to come forward about the matter to clear his own name in an effort to protect the love of his life. Tom nonetheless realizes that Gatsby’s car is the one involved and concludes that Gatsby is the one who killed her after investigating the situation, although this is not truly the case. He admits to Nick towards the end of the book that George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband at the time, was on a mission to kill someone, and he was therefore forced to give up Gatsby as the criminal.
Nick later on learns from Gatsby that Daisy, not Gatsby was driving the car at the time of the accident but Gatsby was driving the car at the time of the accident but Gatsby intends to take the fall anyway. Myrtle's husband, George, inaccurately says that the driver of the yellow car is the secret lover he just started suspecting she has, and sets out on foot to find its owner. After finding out the yellow car is Gatsby's, he arrives at Gatsby's house where he terribly shoots Gatsby and himself.
Daisy was driving Gatsby's big yellow automobile, with him in the passenger seat heading back from the city. As they pass George's garage, Myrtle runs into the middle of the road and is struck by the car and killed. This death plays a key role in the novel because
