Chapter 7 Pages 119-153

Summary: Nick and Gatsby go over to the Buchannan’s house and meet their daughter Pammy. Daisy says I love you too Gatsby and Tom overhears. They decide to go into town where Tom and Gatsby start fighting about Daisy. Finally Gatsby and Daisy leave, and on the way home Daisy runs over Myrtle and kills her. Tom finally gets home and Gatsby hides outside to make sure that everything is okay while Tom and Daisy conspire at the dinner table.

Character: George Wilson

            “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 anyone spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable colorless way. He was his wife’s man and not his own” (Fitzgerald 144).

            George owns his own car repair shop. He is a hard working man. He is terribly sick, and can barely stand yet he still waits outside his business for customers. George is working so hard because he wants a better life for his wife and himself, and wants to move out west. He loves his wife and works hard everyday to try and make things better in his life. George is easy going and a nice guy.

            George Wilson is married to Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle is Tom’s girl on the side. George doesn’t know about this. He knows that Tom talks and hangs out with Myrtle, but he is a customer so he doesn’t think anything about it. George sells and buys cars from Tom. George lives in the City of Ashes and represents a person who was left behind. Everyone else in the novel is rich, but George is poor and has nothing extraordinary. George is an ordinary guy whose wife was just killed by Tom’s angry wife Daisy.

Quote: “His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control” (Fitzgerald 131). Tom loved being in power. He didn’t really care about these girls that much; he just liked feeling in control. He was able to keep two girls. Tom could tell these girls what to do whenever he wanted and they would do it. He wants power and with these two girls under his control he felt powerful, but when he found out he was losing both of them he went crazy. Losing these girls means losing his power and control. Without these girls he has nothing.