He is concerned for Daisy. They are birds of a feather. Neither one takes responsbility for his own actions. What is the true relationship between Daisy and Tom? He says he met Daisy and fell in love with her. She loved him, too, at that time. He went to war and then Oxford. Daisy, under pressure to marry well, married Tom. 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. Nick is the only character to make it out of this chapter in better shape than when he went in. He has, of course, remembered that it was his thirtieth birthday during this chapter remember, Fitzgerald himself was only 29 when this book was published so it is likely he saw thirty as a milestone for his narrator, as well as himself.
For Nick, the change marks a passage away from youthful idealism even ignorance. Although Nick begins the chapter much as in prior chapters a bit uncomfortable with the Buchanans and what they represent, but not at all willing to take a stand against them , by the end he has seen quite clearly what Daisy, Tom, and Jordan are about. After Myrtle's death, Nick is plainly shaken and as a man of moral conscience, he has looked at his life and those around him.
This is where Nick shows what he's really made of. Rather than accept Tom's invitation, as expected, he tells the reader "I'd be damned if I'd go in; I'd had enough of all of them for one day.
Gone is the fellow who withheld judgment because not everyone "had the advantages that [he's] had. His opinion of the Buchanans becomes clear and continues to ripen until he finally can stand it no longer and heads back to the Midwest at the end of the book again, Fitzgerald is showing the Midwest as a Utopia.
The final image in the chapter is perhaps the most pathetic in the whole book. For some readers it will tug on their heartstrings, for others it will be a defining moment, showing the true Jay Gatsby.
He makes a strikingly odd figure with his pink suit glowing luminously in the moonlight. When Nick inquires as to what he's doing, Gatsby, ever the dreamer, replies he is keeping watch, in case Daisy should need his help.
Although Gatsby has assumed the guise of a knight-errant before, nowhere does he seem so clearly on a quest and a quest doomed to failure than right here, willing to sacrifice his own life for Daisy's. Besides, what good is a dream that has been destroyed?
What's worth living for? What escapes Gatsby, but is perfectly clear to Nick, is that his surveillance is unnecessary; there is no chance of Daisy having trouble with Tom. Both Tom and Daisy's actions at the hotel have shown just how alike they are and in a time of crisis, there is no question they will join together. Daisy is likely unaware or at least unconcerned with Gatsby's feelings; Tom, while perhaps sad about Myrtle's death, likely sees her as he sees everyone who isn't of his social class — an expendable object.
And so Gatsby, utterly lost now that his dream has died, holds on to the last piece of all he's ever known as an adult by standing guard at Daisy's. Unfortunately for him, it will be a long night. Trimalchio wealthy character who lavishly feasts guests at a banquet in Petronius' Satyricon , a satire on Roman life in the first century A. Previous Chapter 6.
Next Chapter 8. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. In her home in East Egg, Gatsby assures her that he will take the blame. Tom tells George, Myrtle's husband, that it was Gatsby that killed Myrtle. At Wilson's place, Myrtle runs out into the road. Daisy runs into her with Gatsby's car, sees that she has been hit, but instead of stopping at the accident, continues home.
How do these people react to Myrtle's death? Tom's first instinct is to protect himself by telling Wilson that the yellow car was not his. At the end of the novel, he kills Gatsby , wrongly believing that he had been driving the car that killed Myrtle, and then kills himself. Myrtle Wilson—George's wife, and Tom Buchanan's mistress.
What is Tom's attitude towards Myrtle? Category: travel beach travel. This shows that Tom views Myrtle much differently from the way he views his wife. He's elitist, and so he treats his wife, who is of much higher worth and value, much better than he treats his mistress, who is of a lower social class and is relatively poor.
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