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- In the climax of the scene, Tom tells Nick that Wilson arrived at his door with a revolver and demanded to know who ran over Myrtle. Tom told Wilson it was Gatsby. Tom speaks defensively, implying he feared Wilson would shoot him and saying Gatsby had it coming for running Myrtle over like "a dog."
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Oct 3, 2024 · In the climax of the scene, Tom tells Nick that Wilson arrived at his door with a revolver and demanded to know who ran over Myrtle. Tom told Wilson it was Gatsby.
Tom Buchanan confesses to Nick Carraway that he was the one who had spoken to Wilson about Myrtle’s death on the day Wilson murdered Gatsby. Tom put the blame on Gatsby, unaware it was Daisy, not Gatsby, who ran over Myrtle.
He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy's but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car." There was nothing I could say, except the one unutterable fact that it wasn't true.
Before her party, Tom has sex with her while Nick (a man who is a stranger to Myrtle) waits in the next room, and then Tom ends the night by punching her in the face. Finally, she is restrained by her husband inside her house and then run over.
He tells Nick that Daisy was driving when the car struck Myrtle, but that he himself will take the blame. Still worried about Daisy, Gatsby sends Nick to check on her. Nick finds Tom and Daisy eating cold fried chicken and talking.
Oct 25, 2023 · He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car.” Tom was remorseless, and all Nick could think of was how careless people they were. “Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…”
Later that October, Nick runs into Tom Buchanan on Fifth Avenue in New York. He refuses to shake Tom's hand, and learns that Tom was the one who told George Wilson that Gatsby ran over Myrtle. Tom adds also that he cried when he gave up the apartment in which he conducted his affair with Myrtle.
