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Myrtle And George Wilson In The Great Gatsby

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Arya Sharma Mr. Arthurs Honors English 10 9 April 2024. The Great Gatsby by F.S. Fitzgerald is about Nick Carraway, a stockbroker with a decent background, navigating through the lavish gilded age known as the roaring twenties. Essential themes in The Great Gatsby are the “American Dream” and the ease of social mobility, and these themes are conveyed through Tom Buchanan and George Wilson. Tom Buchanan is known for his old money, meaning that his family has generational wealth. Tom Buchanan is also a serial cheater on his wife Daisy, who is also Nick Carraway’s cousin, Tom is also characteristically very aggressive, and manipulative. Fitzgerald conveyed through direct and indirect characterization. George Wilson is an honest, and humble man …show more content…

Also, the death of Jay Gatsby gets perpetuated. m. George Wilson found a pearl necklace of which he never bought for Myrtle and he confronted her. Myrtle Wilson ran out, and there was a car with Gatsby and Daisy driving, thinking the driver was Tom Buchanan. She started screaming and waving for them to stop, the car didn’t have time to stop and Myrtle got hit “Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust”(Fitzgerald 105). The death of Myrtle had an immense impact on George Wilson, however the cause of her death is Tom Buchanan, via him being the one who Myrtle was trying to run to. And the death of Myrtle triggered the later events and caused the death of Jay Gatsby. Some may say that George was Although George Wilson pulled the trigger, there were multiple factors that influenced and caused George to commit murder. After the argument, and the death of Myrtle, Tom Buchanan alongside Nick and Jordan find George Wilson. As “Wilson’s eyes fell upon Tom; he started up on his tiptoes and then collapsed to his knees had not Tom held him upright”(Fitzgerald 108). Indirect characterization is used here to show George’s despair through his weakness, of almost collapsing.

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