Why would Tom tell Wilson about this “nobody” This quote can be interpreted in one of two ways. One way, obviously, we can say that Daisy never actually told Tom she killed Myrtle. We just know that he knew Myrtle was run over by Gatsby’s car and therefore wanted Gatsby to pay for what he did. The other way we can see this is that Tom had known Myrtle was killed by Daisy and was afraid of what would happen to her if this information was revealed. Therefore it is possible that the author put this quote to show that Tom lied about the crash in his own mind to prevent losing Daisy. There were two things Tom could’ve done if he had known this. The first is pretty unlikely, telling Wilson that Daisy ran over Myrtle. Wilson would probably kill