Every choice an author makes in his/her writing is intentional. No character needs to exist and no action needs to occur, so all characters and actions have meaning. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the character of George Wilson as more than merely the spouse of Tom’s mistress. George Wilson 's character is a device which Fitzgerald uses to illustrate the person Jay Gatsby was on the path to becoming before he met Dan Cody, who took Gatsby in and taught him his own way of life. George Wilson is the picture of James Gatz’s future.
George Wilson is the owner of a gas station in the Valley of Ashes. His character is ignorant; his wife, Myrtle, is having an affair with Tom Buchanan who shamelessly takes advantage of Wilson to access …show more content…
Despite the number of people who come to his parties, no one concretely knows where he comes from or anything about him. People know Gatsby by the lies he tells them, if he tells them at all. The real Gatsby is also a nobody. The only difference separating Wilson from Gatsby is an immense amount of money. Gatsby, too, has no friends (Nick Carraway excluded), and the people who attend his parties are merely taking advantage of his money. Daisy says to Gatsby: “I don’t see how you live there all alone” (90). Gatsby replies: “I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day” (90). However, he does not. When there are not huge parties, the house is empty, and Gatsby. One of Gatsby’s claims to fame is his success, which is widespread and well-known. However, it comes only from his crimes of bootlegging alcohol. Even this “real” Gatsby is only a product of the man Dan Cody …show more content…
When Gatsby dies, his past dies with him. The secret of James Gatz remains a secret becomes no one cares enough to try to uncover it. When Gatsby dies, everyone forgets about him: “then, as he lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak, hour by hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested” (164). The only people that come to the funeral are Nick, Gatsby’s father, and Owl Eyes. No one else cares to come. Wolfsheim is too busy with other matters; Daisy disappears and never attempts to contact Nick. Because no one cares about Gatsby, when he dies, everything that he had tried to hide for so no longer matters; no one wants to know where he came from now that he is not throwing chaotic, exciting
George Wilson is the owner of a gas station in the Valley of Ashes. His character is ignorant; his wife, Myrtle, is having an affair with Tom Buchanan who shamelessly takes advantage of Wilson to access …show more content…
Despite the number of people who come to his parties, no one concretely knows where he comes from or anything about him. People know Gatsby by the lies he tells them, if he tells them at all. The real Gatsby is also a nobody. The only difference separating Wilson from Gatsby is an immense amount of money. Gatsby, too, has no friends (Nick Carraway excluded), and the people who attend his parties are merely taking advantage of his money. Daisy says to Gatsby: “I don’t see how you live there all alone” (90). Gatsby replies: “I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day” (90). However, he does not. When there are not huge parties, the house is empty, and Gatsby. One of Gatsby’s claims to fame is his success, which is widespread and well-known. However, it comes only from his crimes of bootlegging alcohol. Even this “real” Gatsby is only a product of the man Dan Cody …show more content…
When Gatsby dies, his past dies with him. The secret of James Gatz remains a secret becomes no one cares enough to try to uncover it. When Gatsby dies, everyone forgets about him: “then, as he lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak, hour by hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested” (164). The only people that come to the funeral are Nick, Gatsby’s father, and Owl Eyes. No one else cares to come. Wolfsheim is too busy with other matters; Daisy disappears and never attempts to contact Nick. Because no one cares about Gatsby, when he dies, everything that he had tried to hide for so no longer matters; no one wants to know where he came from now that he is not throwing chaotic, exciting