George Wilson commits suicide with the same gun he uses to murder Gatsby. As Gatsby floats on a raft in his swimming pool, Wilson shoots him several times, killing him. Nick, along with Gatsby's chauffeur, butler, and gardner, finds Gatsby's body first, then discovers Wilson's "a little way off in the grass." Nick says "the holocaust was complete."
Who killed Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby?
Wilson shot Gatsby while he was swimming in his pool. Wilson suspects Gatsby of killing his late wife, Myrtle, because he recognized the car model from the scene of the crime. However, Wilson doesn't realize that Gatsby wasn't driving; instead, it was Daisy driving, and Gatsby mentions to Nick that he knows Daisy meant to kill Myrtle. This is likely due to the fact that she knows her husband, Tom , has been having an open affair with Myrtle. Rather than allowing Myrtle to get caught for murder, Gatsby is willing to...
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take the blame for the crime, proving just how much he loves her, despite the fact that Daisy more or less used him just to make Tom jealous of her for having an affair.
In The Great Gatsby, who is killed?
All the deaths in The Great Gatsby occur in the last few chapters of the novel. First, in chapter seven, Myrtle, Tom's married lover, gets hit by Daisy, who is driving Gatsby's yellow sports car. Daisy and Gatsby flee the scene and leave Myrtle dead in the road. When Tom learns of Myrtle's death and hears that a yellow car hit her, he assumes that Gatsby was the driver, and this angers him immensely.
Later, Gatsby tells Nick about the accident and accidentally lets it slip that Daisy was driving "the death car." However, he says he will take the blame, sacrificing himself for Daisy. She, on the other hand, is not as concerned about Gatsby as she is about herself, and she cowardly runs from her crime and back into the arms of her husband.
While all this is happening, George, Myrtle's husband, is disconsolate and demands justice for Myrtle. He realizes that Tom knows who the owner of the yellow car is, and he sets out to find the killer. At the end of chapter eight, Gatsby is floating on an air mattress in his pool, waiting for Daisy to call. George, believing Gatsby to be his wife's murderer, shoots and kills him and then turns the gun on himself.
All in all, three people are killed in The Great Gatsby: Myrtle is killed by Daisy, Gatsby is killed by George, and George kills himslef.