George Wilson

George B. Wilson is a major character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Great Gatsby. A poor man, he was driven into insanity when he thought that Gatsby murdered his wife Myrtle, who was very unfaithful to him.

In The Great Gatsby
George owned a garage, and he resided in the valley of ashes alongside his wife Myrtle. Unbeknownst to George, his wife was having an affair with Tom, the book's antagonist, and she was also bringing items that they couldn't afford home. When he asked her about the items, she would always reply that she got them while visiting her sister and that was that.

When George picked up on the affair, he locked his wife in the bedroom above his garage as an attempt to keep her from meeting her secret lover. When Myrtle thought she saw Tom driving by in a yellow car, she escapes through the window, only to be run over by the approaching car. This incident caused George to lose his sanity, and he became obsessed with avenging his wife's death, even though she wasn't faithful to him.

On the day after Myrtle's death, Wilson walks over to the Buchanan residence and held Tom at gunpoint. Tom convinced George that Gatsby was the one who killed his wife since he assumed that he was driving the yellow car that killed her, and also as a means to save his life.

George then headed for the Gatsby estate, and when ge got there, he gunned Gatsby down in his pool while he was waiting for Daisy to call him. Feeling remorse for what he's become, George pulls the gun on himself, and pulls the trigger.