Great Gatsby Essay

The Great Gatsby, written by Scott F. Fitzpatrick, is a wonderfully woven tale of romance, loneliness, and greed but most of all success. Though all of the characters have dreams of success, or maybe already found it, there is one that doesn’t. George Wilson. I believe that because his life has deteriorated around him, past the point of return, he has given up on his dreams of success and the exit from his little town of ashes. Life has been unrelenting for George and as a result he has given up on the idea of the American dream. One reason I don’t think that George still believes in his American dream is because his wife shows him no respect or love, and even with that fact, he still answers to her like a dog would his master. “Then she wet her lips and without turning around spoke to her husband in a soft, coarse voice: Get some chairs, why don't you, so somebody can sit down. Oh, sure agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity--except his wife, who moved close to Tom.” (Pg. 26). In this quote you see how easily George is brushed off by his wife to go somewhere else so she can continue her affair with Tom Buchanan.
Even though he doesn’t realize it at the time he later realizes that Mrs. Wilson is cheating on him, and he reacts differently than I would expect. “Michaelis didn't see anything odd in that and he gave Wilson a dozen reasons why his wife might have bought the dog leash. But conceivably Wilson had heard some of these same explanations before, from Myrtle, because he began saying "Oh, my God!" again in a whisper--his comforter left several explanations in the air.” (Pg.158). Some people might think that George was Whispering “Oh, my God!”, because he was disappointed in his wife, but I think it was because he was disappointed in himself. Throughout the book we see tom devoted to