George Wilson takes Doctor T. The eyes of Doctor T. Eckleburg can mean anything a character or reader wants them to, but they look down on a world devoid of meaning, value, and beauty—a world in which dreams are exposed as illusions, and cruel, unfeeling men such as Tom receive the love of women longed for by dreamers such as Gatsby and Wilson.
Ace your assignments with our guide to The Great Gatsby! Jekyll and Mr. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. How does Nick Carraway first meet Jay Gatsby? Why did Daisy marry Tom? Why does Gatsby arrange for Nick to have lunch with Jordan Baker?
How does Tom find out about the affair between Gatsby and Daisy? How does Gatsby make his money? How are West Egg and East Egg different? What is the importance of the character Owl Eyes? Does Daisy love Gatsby or Tom? Why does Tom insist on switching cars with Gatsby when they go to the city? Daisy runs her over without stopping, leaving Myrtle dead. In Chapter 8 , George, reeling from his wife's violent death, loses whatever faith he had in God after and decides to find the owner of the yellow car.
The police assume that he goes garage to garage asking about the yellow car until he finds Jay Gatsby's name and address 8. Using this information, George walks the rest of the way to Gatsby's mansion 8. He shoots Gatsby, who is swimming in his pool for the first time all season.
He then shoots himself, and "the holocaust was complete" 8. In Chapter 9 , the mystery of how George found Gatsby is solved. Tom confesses that George first came to Tom's house that night. There, Tom told him that the yellow car was Gatsby's and insinuated that Gatsby was the one who killed Myrtle and the one who was sleeping with her 9.
George Wilson proves the old action movie adage: never take your eyes off the guy with the gun. Generally he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn't working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road. When any one spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way.
He was his wife's man and not his own. After our first introduction to George, Nick emphasizes George's meekness and deference to his wife, very bluntly commenting he is not his own man. Although this comment reveals a bit of Nick's misogyny—his comment seems to think George being his "wife's man" as opposed to his own is his primary source of weakness—it also continues to underscore George's devotion to Myrtle.
George's apparent weakness may make him an unlikely choice for Gatsby's murderer, until you consider how much pent-up anxiety and anger he has about Myrtle, which culminates in his two final, violent acts: Gatsby's murder and his own suicide. His description also continues to ground him in the Valley of Ashes. Unlike all the other main characters, who move freely between Long Island and Manhattan or, in Myrtle's case, between Queens and Manhattan , George stays in Queens, contributing to his stuck, passive, image.
This makes his final journey, on foot, to Long Island, feel especially eerie and desperate. Some man was talking to him in a low voice and attempting from time to time to lay a hand on his shoulder, but Wilson neither heard nor saw. His eyes would drop slowly from the swinging light to the laden table by the wall and then jerk back to the light again and he gave out incessantly his high horrible call.
George is completely devastated by the death of his wife, to the point of being inconsolable and unaware of reality. Although we hear he treated her roughly just before this, locking her up and insisting on moving her away from the city, he is completely devastated by her loss. This sharp break with his earlier passive persona prefigures his turn to violence at the end of the book.
I took her to the window—" With an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it, "—and I said 'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me but you can't fool God! Standing behind him Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night. Something made him turn away from the window and look back into the room.
But Wilson stood there a long time, his face close to the window pane, nodding into the twilight. George is looking for comfort, salvation, and order where there is nothing but an advertisement.
It also speaks to how alone and powerless George is, and how violence becomes his only recourse to seek revenge. In this moment, the reader is forced to wonder if there is any kind of morality the characters adhere to, or if the world really is cruel and utterly without justice—and with no God except the empty eyes of Dr.
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Is Nick Carraway in love with Gatsby? What does the last paragraph in The Great Gatsby mean? Eckleburg for a long time after. George Wilson seeks the name and identity of the person driving the car that struck and killed his wife, thinking that it is also the man with whom she was having an affair. Finding his way to West Egg, he kills Gatsby and then himself. Logging out….
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