Myrtle's Death In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Title In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway meets a millionaire named Jay Gatsby who has many parties in his huge mansion. Gatsby becomes obsessed with reuniting with Daisy Buchanan, his former love, before he goes to war. Although a character named Tom Buchanan was already the husband of Daisy and even if she wanted to, she was stuck in the marriage with Tom. Two other characters are also introduced as George and Myrtle Wilson, but Tom and Myrtle develop an affair and George finds out that her wife is having an affair with another man. Gatsby’s reckless desire to be reunited with Daisy ends in a car crash with Myrtle dying, and Tom blames Gatsby and George becomes enraged and shoots Gatsby because he thought

Tom goes to the place where Myrtle was hit and Tom tries to get the blame all off of him and more on Gatsby. Tom goes to George and says ““Listen,” said Tom, shaking him a little. “I just got here a minute ago, from New York. I was bringing you that coupe we’ve been talking about. That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine — do you hear? I haven’t seen it all afternoon.”” (Fitzgerald 108). The car that hit Myrtle was actually Tom’s car, but he convinces George that Gatsby owned it and he was the one driving it who killed Myrtle, if Tom never told George that Gatsby couldn’t have been killed by George. Even though Tom was the one who was really in the affair with Myrtle, George connects the dots to himself based on what Tom told him that Gatsby would have killed Myrtle because of the affair that he would have had with her. Not only was it just Tom himself, the affair that took place between him and Myrtle also had an effect on Gatsby’s death. As Gatsby and Daisy were driving past the garage that Myrtle was at, Gatsby tells Nick, “but it seemed to me that [Myrtle] wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew” (Fitzgerald