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Tom Buchanan's Death Essay

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Who done it? There are three deaths that occur in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. And it may seem surprising but there is one person to blame for all three of them. Tom Buchanan is the one who is the most responsible for the deaths of Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and George Wilson. 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 …show more content…

Tom had assumed Gatsby was the one to be driving but in reality, it was his own wife, but he tells Wilson who he thinks it was, this being Gatsby, which got George riled up and sent him out looking for blood. In this case the blood of his wife’s murderer who he also assumed to be her lover. “Michaelis opened the drawer nearest his hand. There was nothing in it but a small, expensive dog-leash, made of leather and braided silver. It was apparently new.” We can draw the conclusion that George knew about his wife’s affair because he was the one who told Michaelis to check the drawer. George was very hurt by his wife’s death that he went to seek the killer of his wife. He went to find the yellow car that Tom had told him was the culprit. Tom took the blame off himself by telling George, “Listen”, said Tom, shaking him a little. “I just got back from New York. I was bringing you that coupe we’ve been talking about. The yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine-do you hear? I haven’t seen it all afternoon.”, Toms is covering his own skin immediately by saying it wasn’t his and that he wasn’t the one driving it. He wants to get it through George’s head that he wasn’t the one who killed his wife but afterwards he mentions that the car was from a friend of his. Immediately sending a target on Gatsby and setting George over the edge. He was already not doing well, finding out about Myrtle’s affair and he did even worse when she was killed. He wanted to avenge her

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