The Role Of George In The Great Gatsby

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In the book, The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, George is one of the side characters in the book, but is important to the story plot due to his actions. He is a mechanic that lives in a garage in New York in the part which was describe “valley of ashes” (24). George works very hard which makes him look “spiritless...[and] anæmic” (25). He is married to Mrs. Myrtle and plans to go to the West with her, but has not gone yet do to money issues which is why he works hard to provide the money to go. He develops a chance of personality throughout the story by the effects of other’s mistakes. George was a gentleman in the beginning of the story. He did not have much voice when it came to talking to Tom. He would stammer around …show more content…

He did not take the affair well which made him look “sick…[with] unforgivably guilty” (124). He started to realize that his wife was lying to him which caused him much grief that it affects his health in a way of state. When Tom comes back to his garbage he asks about the car to have the money right away so he can get his wife away from the city and the guy she was having an affair with. He was no longer a gentleman when he began to go a little crazy when he locks up his wife in a room in the house. His neighbor, Michaelis, was even “astonished”, because George “had never seemed capable of such [action]” (136). After his wife gets killed by a car, he begins to go insane. He could no longer hold back, and decide on his own to find who own the car that had hit and killed his wife. He takes a gun with him and goes to Tom’s place to find the answers he needed to find the owner. Tom gives him the answer, and George heads to Gatsby’s place to kill him. He shoots Gatsby when he finds him in the pool, and then when he gets a farther from the house he shoots himself. The garden of Mr. Gatsby “saw [George’s] body a little way off” (162). George was no longer the same person as he was in the beginning, and was dramatically change by killing Mr. Gatsby and then

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