The Importance of George Wilson in The Great Gatsby

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Subject Area:Literature

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George Wilson is one of the minor characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. However, his passivity is very important as his functional purpose in The Great Gatsby is both moral and thematic. Mr. Wilson’s Great Gatsby’s appearance was first seen in chapter 2 as an introduction to another character, Myrtle Wilson, his wife when Tom Buchanan stops by his garage to pick up Myrtle (Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby). George Wilson Great Gatsby’s reflection is opposite yet similar. It relates more like the images seen in a plain mirror which represents the person looking at the mirror but it is laterally inverted. Let us take a look at some of the differences and similarities of how George Wilson fits well into the Great Gatsby.

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Some of the differences in George Wilson - The Great Gatsby role. Gatsby smiles understandingly much more than understandably. When comparing some of the similarities between both characters i. e. George Wilson and Gatsby. When Gatsby stretched out his arms towards the dark water, he did it curiously and he was trembling (Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby). While this might seem in contrast to the bold and courageous Gatsby, it only further buttresses the similarities with Wilson. Wilson decides to take a stand in a possessive and manipulative manner by deciding to lock his wife in the house and move her away from her secret lover (Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby). George Wilson’s obsessive nature results in Myrtle’s accidental death, Gatsby’s murder, and his suicide.

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