How Does Myrtle Tell The Story In The Great Gatsby

Commonly, in The Great Gatsby, “Secret” relationships take a toll on the characters’ lives and surge into conflict. With Gatsby’s “secret” relationship starting because of love, Tom’s started with no reason at all. Even though Gatsby and Tom both participate in affairs, Tom’s affair with Myrtle makes the people living in West and East Egg of New York live problem-filled lives. There lives no question that Gatsby’s love for Daisy and his inability to betray her creates problems; however, Tom’s affair with Myrtle Wilson and him framing Gatsby ultimately leads to Gatsby’s death. Tom Buchanan continues, throughout the whole book, to be a stand out character with his relationship to Daisy and the damage it causes. In The Great Gatsby, F.S.Fitzgerald

In chapter 7, everything takes a turn for the worse when the “death car” ends Myrtle’s life. As Gatsby and Daisy start to come back from the Plaza Hotel, Myrtle quickly runs out of her house, getting hit by Gatsby’s car. Without a second thought, the “death car. then disappeared around the next bend” leaving her lifeless body on the road (Fitzgerald 105). Since Tom had just gotten seen in Gatsby’s yellow coupe while driving to the Plaza Hotel, this created lots of confusion and blaming. 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