George, who now knows about his wife's affair but doesn't know it's with Tom, reveals that he needs money because he and his wife are going to move out West.
While Myrtle claims to no longer care for George, he still seems smitten with her, as evidenced by how he "hurriedly" follows her suggestions (2.17).
In this quote, Nick tells us that George Wilson has suspicions that Myrtle is having an affair, but he doesn't know that Myrtle is having the affair with Tom.
Myrtle explains to others that her marriage was doomed from the start: 'I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out. '
Tom tells George; Myrtle 's husband that it was Gatsby's was the one that killed Myrtle. In reality truth is that Daisy did but no one knows. At knowing this George goes to Gatsby 's house in West Egg where he shot Gatsby killing him and killing himself.
George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom. George is consumed with grief when Myrtle is killed. George is comparable to Gatsby in that both are dreamers and both are ruined by their unrequited love for women who love Tom.
He tells him that before Myrtle died, he confronted her about her lover and told her that she could not hide her sin from the eyes of God. The morning after the accident, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, illuminated by the dawn, overwhelm Wilson.
Like Tom, George Wilson is violent towards his wife. After he finds out that she has been cheating on him, he locks her in a room and keeps her there against her will. Myrtle says, “Beat me! Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward” (Fitzgerald 144)!
Myrtle confesses in The Great Gatsby that she did not marry George out of love. She married him because she thought he was a gentleman. She thought that he would be able to lift him out of her current life and give her a better future.
Myrtle resented George because he isn't rich - he even had to borrow 'somebody's best suit to get married in'. Myrtle thought she married below her class, she said George 'wasn't fit to lick [her] shoe', but she was actually working class herself.
Myrtle sees the affair as romantic and a ticket out of her marriage, while Tom sees it as just another affair, and Myrtle as one of a string of mistresses. The pair has undeniable physical chemistry and attraction to each other, perhaps more than any other pairing in the book.
Daisy chose to marry Tom over Gatsby because Tom was wealthier and more powerful than Gatsby. Gatsby grew up poor and never had money as Tom did. Daisy promised he would wait for Gatsby while he went to war, but she knew her mother would never let her marry a poor man.
In The Great Gatsby, George Wilson locks Myrtle in the bedroom because he ''had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world'' and intends to take her away.
After Myrtle is hit and killed, George sinks into a severe depression and grief. He reveals to Michaelis that, before his wife died, he warned her that God was always watching. According to Michaelis, Wilson fixated on the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg for a long time after.
Myrtle (and her husband George) represent the lower classes. They live in the 'valley of ashes', an area literally and symbolically impoverished, a great contrast to the luxury of the mansions of Long Island.
Tom hits Myrtle because she refused to obey him, but also in defense of Daisy; he feels strongly about both women. Tom's outburst therefore shows that he has difficulty handling complex emotions. He responds with violence to maintain control.
Although Daisy may have loved Gatsby once, she does not love him more than the wealth, status, and freedom that she has with Tom.
Their love affair makes Gatsby optimistic that Daisy is his true love, but he really only sees and loves an idealized version of her that he has carried for years. In the end, Daisy chooses to stay with her husband even when knowing he had also had an affair.
Myrtle believes that the only reason Tom will not divorce Daisy is because Daisy is Catholic. But we learn that Tom's feelings for Myrtle are far less intense than he has led her to believe and that social pressure prevents him from ever leaving Daisy, who comes from a similar upper-class background.
The narrative switches back to Nick. Tom realises that it was Gatsby's car that struck and killed Myrtle. Back at Daisy and Tom's home, Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving the car that killed Myrtle but he will take the blame.
She regretted being married to her husband. She “thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe” (34), feeling as if her husband George wasn't good enough for her. By her words, she displays her true feelings for her husband.
Wilson believes that Gatsby killed Myrtle because Tom gave him intentionally misleading information. Earlier in the story, Tom stopped by Wilson's garage while driving Gatsby's yellow car, leading Wilson to believe that the car was Tom's.
Nick is particularly taken with Gatsby and considers him a great figure. He sees both the extraordinary quality of hope that Gatsby possesses and his idealistic dream of loving Daisy in a perfect world.
“They're a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” Nick addresses these words to Gatsby the last time he sees his neighbor alive, in Chapter 8.
To Gatsby, the innocent and naive Daisy comes to embody the American dream, in other words wealth and social status, a goal he will have reached by winning her hand.