The Roaring Twenties was a time of new beginnings. From extravagant parties, prohibition, and the introduction of jazz music, life in America was divine. However, an event that occurred in the 1920’s that is widely forgotten is the Hall-Mills murder case. In September of 1922, the bodies of Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were discovered with gunshot wounds in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Both Edward and Eleanor were married to others, but the two were said to have close relations. Upon discovering the bodies, the police were bewildered. The bodies were lying side by side, with love letters scattered around them. The Hall-Mills murder case has yet to be solved. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle
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When Myrtle Wilson is killed, she is killed by a car. In The Great Gatsby it is stated that “Michaelis wasn’t even sure of it’s color-he told the first policeman that it was light green” (Fitzgerald 144). The color of the car then changes, when “A pale, well dressed Negro” states, “‘It was a yellow car,’ he said. ‘Big yellow car. New’”(147). The car was Gatsby’s, which explains why George murdered Gatsby, thinking that Gatsby killed Myrtle. Relating to the Hall-Mills murder case, it was noted that there was a green car involved in the murder. This can be proven by “The prosecutor’s office announced that police were searching for a light green car in connection with the murder” (Churchwell 30). In The Great Gatsby, the color of the cars have prominent symbolism as to what the colors represent. Instead of the car colors being in relation to symbolism, the car color could possibly be a representation of the car in connection with the Hall-Mills murder case.
Another event that is prominent in both Gatsby and the Hall-Mills murder case is gunshots. At the end of The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby is shot and killed by George Wilson,who then proceeds to kill himself as well. The double shooting of the two men can be related back to the double shooting of Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills. As Rick Geary states “...both victims are dead from gunshots to the head-the man shot once and the woman three times”(7). While there is no connection with the ways of death of Myrtle and Eleanor, death by gunshot is prominent in both Gatsby and the murder
When Myrtle Wilson is killed, she is killed by a car. In The Great Gatsby it is stated that “Michaelis wasn’t even sure of it’s color-he told the first policeman that it was light green” (Fitzgerald 144). The color of the car then changes, when “A pale, well dressed Negro” states, “‘It was a yellow car,’ he said. ‘Big yellow car. New’”(147). The car was Gatsby’s, which explains why George murdered Gatsby, thinking that Gatsby killed Myrtle. Relating to the Hall-Mills murder case, it was noted that there was a green car involved in the murder. This can be proven by “The prosecutor’s office announced that police were searching for a light green car in connection with the murder” (Churchwell 30). In The Great Gatsby, the color of the cars have prominent symbolism as to what the colors represent. Instead of the car colors being in relation to symbolism, the car color could possibly be a representation of the car in connection with the Hall-Mills murder case.
Another event that is prominent in both Gatsby and the Hall-Mills murder case is gunshots. At the end of The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby is shot and killed by George Wilson,who then proceeds to kill himself as well. The double shooting of the two men can be related back to the double shooting of Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills. As Rick Geary states “...both victims are dead from gunshots to the head-the man shot once and the woman three times”(7). While there is no connection with the ways of death of Myrtle and Eleanor, death by gunshot is prominent in both Gatsby and the murder