In the beginning, we find out that Gatsby replaced all his servants with dangerous people connected to Wolfshiem through Nick being greeted rudely by on of Gatsby's new servants. Nick drives to the Buchanan's house to have lunch with Tom and Daisy, and also find Jordan and Gatsby also there. While in the house, Daisy openly expresses her love for Gatsby, and Tom begins to suspect something and suggests they all go to town together. During the drive to town, they stop at the Wilson's and discover that Mr. Wilson has discovered that Myrtle has been secretly seeing somebody. In the hotel, Gatsby and Tom get into a heated verbal fight about Daisy, and on the drive back home, Daisy hits Myrtle on the road and kills her.
Character: George Wilson
"Wilson had never seemed faintly capable of such a statement. 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 any one spoke to him he was invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way. He was his wife's man and not his own." (Fitzgerald 136)
George Wilson is a trustworthy, yet submissive man who kisses up to higher society to get the money he wants. From the quote above, it is clear that he usually trusts Myrtle and lets her do what she desires, but he locks her up when he finds out that she was cheating on him so he can be dominant too. Mr. Wilson also is a kiss-up. Each time Tom comes, Mr. Wilson asks Tom with utmost politeness if he can sell his cars to Mr. Wilson himself so Mr. Wilson can make a lot of money.
George Wilson's role in the novel is to represent a normal man in society that wants to climb up the social latter by trying to do business with Tom. He also represent's Tom's poorer counterpart because both have discovered his wife's infidelity.
Quote:
"They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale, and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. " (Fitzgerald 145)
The quote stood out to me because I felt it foreshadowed a downfall to Gatsby in the coming chapters. It says that Daisy still dearly loved Tom, so in the future, I think Daisy will tell Gatsby straight out to stop bothering her. She was already mad enough when Gatsby told her to tell Tom that she never loved Tom, that the five years she spent with him was only a filler for Gatsby.
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