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Wilson decides that God demands revenge and leaves to track down the owner of the car. Wilson looks for Tom, because he knows that Tom is familiar with the car’s owner—he saw Tom driving the car earlier that day, but he knows Tom could not have been the driver since Tom arrived after the accident in a different car with Nick and Jordan.
- Chapter 9
Summary. Writing two years after Gatsby’s death, Nick...
- Chapter 9
Myrtle Wilson desperately seeks a better life than the one she has. She feels imprisoned in her marriage to George, a downtrodden and uninspiring man who she mistakenly believed had good “breeding.”. Myrtle and George live together in a ramshackle garage in the squalid “valley of ashes,” a pocket of working-class desperation situated ...
Summary of Myrtle's Action in the Novel. The idea of Myrtle Wilson is introduced in Chapter 1, when she calls the Buchanans' house to speak to Tom. We get our first look at Myrtle in Chapter 2, when Nick goes with Tom to George Wilson's garage to meet her, and then to Myrtle's apartment in Manhattan for a party.
In Great Gatsby Chapter 8, things go from very bad to much, much worse. There’s an elegiac tone to half of the story in Chapter 8, as Nick tells us about Gatsby giving up on his dreams of Daisy and reminiscing about his time with her five years before. The other half of the chapter is all police thriller, as we hear Michaelis describe Wilson ...
Gatsby informs him Daisy didn't come outside the night before, and he refuses Nick's suggestion to abandon Daisy and Long Island. Gatsby reveals details of his and Daisy's long ago courtship. He was enthralled by her wealth, her big house, and the idea of men loving her. To be with Daisy, he pretended to be of the same social standing as her.
The Great Gatsby. Love and Marriage Quotes. ‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,’ she said finally. ‘I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.’. Myrtle Wilson is talking about her husband, George, during a party in Myrtle’s apartment in New York City. Myrtle claims that George ...
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Myrtle Wilson is a loud, naive, social climber, the wife of George Wilson and mistress of Tom Buchanan. Myrtle is lower class and lives with her husband above their garage in the “Valley of Ashes”, a depressing industrial area halfway between New York City and the glamorous East and West Egg. Myrtle has grown to dislike her husband, finding ...
