Tom And Myrtle's Death In The Great Gatsby

Gatsby was murdered by Wilson, because he thought that Gatsby was the one that hit his wife and killed her. Tom is a main contributor to Gatsby’s death because Myrtle was his mistress. Tom was the one that suggested he drive Gatsby’s car to town with Jordan and Nick. Myrtle saw them that day and Nick noticed “her eyes, [which became] wide with jealous terror were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife” (125). On the way back home, Gatsby and Daisy were driving the yellow car, which was the car that Tom was driving earlier. Myrtle ran out in front of the car as if “she wanted to speak to [them], [thinking they] were somebody she knew” (143). She ran thinking that it was Tom and that he would stop but, it wasn’t.

In the beginning of the novel Daisy’s awareness that Tom has a mistress in New York is revealed, although her identity is unknown. Later in the story after Daisy admits she’s been seeing Gatsby to Tom, Gatsby and Daisy are driving home with each other. On their way back to Daisy’s house, Daisy, being the driver, hits Myrtle and kills her. Although this was an accident, Daisy does not stop the car to tend the victim. Not only does Daisy kill Myrtle, she also drives away from the scene immediately with no hesitation. A quote from Gatsby reads "Yes," he said after a moment, "but of course I'll say I was…..Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back. The second my hand reached the wheel I felt the shock – it must have killed her instantly."(Fitzgerald 143). This quote from Gatsby shows that he cares more about Daisy killing Myrtle than the actual death of Myrtle. Daisy is also letting Gatsby take the blame for the accident and not owning up to her own actions. Another example of this is “I thought so; I told Daisy I thought so. It’s better the shock came all at once. She stood it pretty well.”(Fitzgerald 143). Again all Gatsby is concerned about is Daisy and I know that's all Daisy is concerned about as well. A quote from Tom Buchanan states“I told him the truth,”he said. “He came to the door while we were getting

Gatsby may believe that Daisy is perfect, but she committed the ultimate form of betrayal. On the evening that Myrtle died, Daisy and Tom were conspiring their story, and plotting their next move. Since no one knows that Daisy was driving, they both realize the obvious person to blame. Without a second thought or sympathy in their hearts, they decide that the blame is left on Gatsby. On the following day, as Gatsby floats calmly and cluelessly in his pool for the last time before the summer ends, Myrtle’s husband George arrives. He in cold blood shoots Gatsby and then himself. A man who had goals and made himself a respectable suitor all for love, betrayed and remembered as a criminal.

He sees what he does, as well as the pursuit of Daisy as noble, honorable, and purposeful. Unwittingly, the pursuit of Daisy was a blind pursuit and wild-goose chase, which subsequently cost Gatsby his life. Without an iota of doubt, if Gatsby had not entangled with Daisy, he would not have been killed, because Daisy would not have used his car to kill Myrtle Wilson, which resulted in Wilson mistaking the driver for Gatsby and then killing Gatsby after he knew him as the car owner. The novel, “The Great Gatsby” is a reflection on the 1920's, which depicts every event that occurred in Gatsby's

Scott Fitzgerald depicts a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby who tries to reconcile with his past lover named Daisy, and all the while doing this, man-made violence--both physical and emotional--starts to take place that interrupts the love that he and Daisy had been building. As is present in almost all other American literature, the story focuses on the concept of many relationships and love between the characters in the novel, and one could even say that a love triangle in present in this story. Although many of these characters are in love, this love is not between them and their spouse. For example, Daisy and Tom are married, and Wilson and Myrtle are married, but none of them are being loyal to their significant other. Daisy is having relations with Gatsby, and Tom with Myrtle. The love between Gatsby and Daisy develops throughout the story, giving readers the hope that they would get back together in a permanent relationship after years without seeing each other. This story turns violent whenever Daisy runs over Myrtle, which was an accident, but Wilson then believes that Gatsby intentionally killed Myrtle. Although he was not the one who killed Myrtle in the first place, Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy, and chooses to keep quiet that Daisy was really the one driving the car that night. At the time of Gatsby’s death, Daisy and Gatsby’s love had been growing stronger and stronger. Gatsby confides in Nick, telling him “‘I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she’d throw me over, but she didn’t, because she was in love with me too’”. Gatsby chose to take the blame for Daisy because he wanted to protect her. While Gatsby was “‘getting deeper in love every minute’” with Daisy, Wilson was plotting his revenge on the man he believed killed his wife. After Wilson kills Gatsby and takes his own life, and “the holocaust was complete”. This holocaust that Fitzgerald

In the film, Gatsby dies a winner, near the end it shows that there is still hope that Gatsby will get Daisy. Nick narrates that Gatsby is waiting for Daisy, he reacts when the phone rings, comes out of the pool as if he is expecting a call that she will be leaving Tom. After Mr. Gatsby has been shot the audience realizes it was not Daisy, it was Nicky. For Gatsby, he knows that it was Daisy, which made him believe she still cared.

From early on in the book, it is obvious that Daisy knows more than she lets on about her husband Tom Buchanan other life, but she chooses to paint an image of happiness to keep her aristocratic lifestyle. For she seems to be the image of how all wives, should be in her social class. Yet when given the opportunity to express her real emotions, she lets her feelings take control. As seen when she runs over Myrtle in chapter seven, leading to Gatsby taking the blame for her. On the other hand, Daisy really has no room to judge, because she has been cheating with Gatsby on Tom. Furthermore, she went into their marriage with Gatsby still in her heart, even if she loved Tom too. For when she received the letter from him, it was quite obvious that

Fitzgerald's description of her death is similar to a candle being snuffed; the characterization of the word "extinguished" represents Myrtle's death as swift and instantaneous. As a result of Myrtle's death, Tom's mistress is no longer a conflict between Daisy and Tom. However, Daisy still faces the choice of choosing Gatsby, her true love or staying with Tom. This conflict is resolved when Gatsby dies at the hands of George Wilson. Gatsby was going for a swim in his pool and a few minutes later his "chauffeur heard the shots", the shots that ended Gatsby's life (Fitzgerald 398).

”(132) This comment truly hurt Gatsby because for the past five years Daisy has been the only person on his mind but Daisy cannot even bring herself to place her love for Gatsby above her love for Tom. Despite all this, Gatsby was willing to take the blame for the murder of Myrtle Wilson, wife of George Wilson and partner of Tom, and stayed all night outside Daisy’s house to make sure she was safe. Not only was he willing to risk his life to protect Daisy he also paid the highest price for her. Gatsby sacrificed his life for his one true love and never thought to do otherwise

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the pages I read were 35 -41. A party was held in the apartment that Tom rented for his meetings with Myrtle; in this party Myrtle changed herself into an elegant dress and began to act as a person with money and power. Her attitude changed and to her everything seemed perfect like it was her reality. In this section the plot that was shown was a conflict between Myrtle and Tom Buchanan. Tom Buchanan began to make fun of Mr. Wilson about how he may look pouring gas into a car and Myrtle wasn’t very pleased, but she made no fuss about it and later on in the party she brought in Daisy’s name. She said her name repetitively trying to also make fun of her, Tom Buchanan became furious and with

Gatsby, in his eyes is lacking morals in which he needs to be able to have something with

Without doubt, the affair between Tom and Myrtle in chapter 7 indicates the lack of morality in them. While both of them have their own legal marriage, they refuse to be loyal to their partners. Myrtle betrays Wilson-her husband’s love. Wilson is the one who seeks for every opportunities to earn a lot of money for her because he understands her obsession with money. Moreover, he has a strong desire to please Myrtle.

Nick was taking a train with Tom to New York when Tom decided they should get off at the valley of ashes so Nick could meet his mistress who lived in a repair shop there. Ms. Wilson, George B. Wilson owns the shop and is the husband of Myrtle. Wilson, Tom’s mistress. After Tom, Myrtle, and Nick travel into the city, Myrtle buys a dog and they all go to Tom and Myrtle’s apartment. The group gets drunk and more people show up to the apartment, including Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, a neighbor, Chester Mckee, and his wife, Mrs. Mckee. The group discusses Tom and Myrtle’s affair along with information about George and Daisy. Tom broke Myrtle’s nose because she kept saying Daisy’s name.

Gatsby bought a mansion across the bay from Daisy to stay close to her. He started throwing parties hoping to get her attention, so she will come to one of his parties. Nick said about Gatsby, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago.” He took the blame for Myrtle’s death trying defending Daisy, and he kept the truth a secret that Daisy was the driving the car when she ran over Myrtle. In the end, everything Gatsby did is for nothing. Daisy never loved Gatsby as much as he did, and she picked Tom over him because he has old money which makes him more respectful in the community. Hence the will still divide the people with different social classes between the old money and the new

2. Tom meets Nick on a train to New York, and while the train is stopped at a crossing, he takes Nick to the garage where she lives.