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George B. Wilson is Myrtle's husband and an owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the Valley of Ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom Buchanan. When Myrtle is killed by a car, driven by Daisy, Tom blames it all on Gatsby. Tom also says that Gatsby was having an affair with Myrtle, when Tom was the one who really was. George then goes after Gatsby and ends up shooting and killing him. After he kills Gatsby, he put the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger.

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George B. Wilson is Myrtle's husband and an owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the Valley of Ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom Buchanan. When Myrtle is killed by a car, driven by Daisy, Tom blames it all on Gatsby.

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Nicholas "Nick" Carraway is the main character and narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.

He is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. After moving to West Egg, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan 's cousin, he facilitates the rekindling of the romance between her and Gatsby.

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Nick Carraway was born in 1892 in Minnesota, Middle-West of the United States, as the son of a well-situated family. Just like Fitzgerald who was born in the midwestern city in Minnesota. His grand-uncle had started the family's hardware business in 1851. He went to elementary, middle and high school in the Middle-West. After that he was sent to Yale University by his family. Nick was sent to France, when the United States entered the Great War in 1917, in order to fulfill his military service. After this time, in 1922, he decided to move to New York to learn the bond business, because the war had changed his perspective of the world. The rural narrow mindedness was not his world anymore. In West Egg, a district of Long Island, he rented a small house, and became a neighbor of the mysterious Jay Gatsby.

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Nicholas "Nick" Carraway is the main character and narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. He is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business.

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I know what you're doing, Jay Gatsby.
You are going to regret it. Myrtle Wilson is MY WIFE. Sleep with one eye open!

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Thomas " Tom" Buchanan is Daisy's immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick Carraway 's social.

He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle Wilson, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation. Buchanan lives in the "old money" neighborhood of East Egg in New York.

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Tom Buchanan comes from a staggeringly wealthy family with long standing social prestige. Born in Chicago, Tom moved East during his college years where he attended Yale and met Nick Carraway at the University's social club. At Yale, Buchanan was a football star; as Nick accounts, Tom was "one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savours of anti-climax".

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Thomas "Tom" Buchanan is Daisy's immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick Carraway's social. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle Wilson, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.

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Don't even think about it, Gatsby. Daisy and I come from from old money. There's no way someone from new money like you would even stand a chance with Daisy. Back off.

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Myrtle Wilson is an ambitious social climber, the sister of Catherine, wife of George Wilson and the mistress of Tom Buchanan.

Wilson owns a run-down garage in the Valley of Ashes. Myrtle herself possessed a fierce vitality and desperately looked for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chose Tom, who treated her as a mere object of his desire. When her husband demanded to know who her lover was, she ran out of the room and onto the road. She recognized the yellow car driving by, thinking that Tom was behind the wheel.

Myrtle aspires to have a better life. To heighten the tragedy of Myrtle's death, Nick emphasized her hunger for life, frequently using the word 'vitality' to describe her. She had a 'vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering'. Myrtle resented George because he isn't rich - he even had to borrow 'somebody's best suit to get married in'. Myrtle thought she married below her class, she said George 'wasn't fit to lick [her] shoe', but she was actually working class herself. This was clear from the way she spoke - she used non-standard grammar and 'obscene' language. Nick ridicules Myrtle's attempt to appear upper class - he describes her voice as a 'high mincing shout'. Myrtle's focus is on improving her standing in life, and sees Tom as an escape from her current situation, ignoring and belittling her husband in the meantime. Her lack of synapses encourages the reader to see Myrtle as greedy, rather than ambitious or desperate. She naively thought that Tom will leave Daisy and clung to him despite his abuse, because of his wealth and better class status.

George Wilson and Myrtle were arguing when Myrtle then spotted a yellow car approaching. Myrtle believed that Tom was coming for her and ran out into the road, calling for Tom. She waved her hands in the air, running towards the car's direction. George saw his wife running and called out for her. Myrtle continued calling for Tom's name. His yellow car came faster and faster towards her direction. Realizing this, Myrtle screamed as the car hit her, causing her to crash into the windshield, cracking it. Myrtle flew into the air as George screamed with horror. Myrtle's body collapsed onto the road, cut open with beads of her pearl necklace everywhere along with glass shards. Some people witnessed Myrtle's death but didn't do anything.

Myrtle's death by Gatsby's great car is certainly no accident. The details are sketchy, but in having Myrtle run down by Gatsby's roadster, Fitzgerald is sending a clear message. Gatsby's car, the "death car," assumes a symbolic significance as a clear and obvious manifestation of American materialism. What more obvious way to put one's wealth and means on display than through the biggest, fanciest car around. Yes, it is tragic that Myrtle dies so brutally, but her death takes on greater meaning when one realizes that it is materialism that brought about her end. Looking back to Chapter 2, it is clear that Myrtle aspires to wealth and privilege. She wants all the material comforts money can provide - and isn't at all above lording her wealth over others (such as her sister, or Nick, or the McKees). Her desire for money (which allows access to all things material) led her to have an affair with Tom (she got involved with him initially because of the fashionable way he was dressed). Myrtle's death is sadly poetic; a woman who spent her life acquiring material possessions by whatever means possible has been, in effect, killed by her own desires. Dwelling too much on material things, Fitzgerald says, can not bring a positive resolution. Materialism can only bring misery, as seen through Myrtle.

Wilson, too, becomes more dimensional in the chapter, which is necessary in order to prepare adequately for the chapter to follow. While Wilson isn't necessarily good, he is pure. His distress at finding out about his wife's secret life is genuine but, being a man of little means and few wits, he doesn't know what to do about it. Clearly he loves Myrtle deeply - so deeply, in fact, that he would lock her in a room to prevent her running away (he plans to take her West in a few day's time, showing once again that in Fitzgerald's mind, there is something more pure, more sensible, about the West). Wilson is meant to stand opposite Tom, and the way the two men respond first to their wives' infidelities, and later to Myrtle's death, show that although one man is rich and the other poor, they still have much in common. In the end, however, the poor man comes off as the more passionate and heartfelt in his grief.

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Myrtle Wilson is an ambitious social climber, the sister of Catherine, wife of George Wilson and the mistress of Tom Buchanan. Wilson owns a run-down garage in the Valley of Ashes. Myrtle herself possessed a fierce vitality and desperately looked for a way to improve her situation.