Gatsby
In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a character who appears so little, but yet is so influential. He is responsible for so much action on the part of the main characters, but he himself does very little. The name of this character is Michaelis. He is described as the young Greek who ran the coffee joint in the Valley of Ashes, but a careful reader might implicate him as the cause of Gatsby’s death and Wilson’s in precisely three ways. He failed to determine the right killer of Myrtle, he did not get to the bottom of things when the Wilson was just suspicious, and then when Wilson had become entirely unstable he left the man unattended. Though it is obvious that wounds from bullets killed both Wilson and Gatsby, Michaelis played no small part in their deaths. As the first sign of trouble appears with George Wilson, Michaelis is there as a friend and a kind hand. However, Michaelis soon realizes that Wilson is not just physically ill, and that something else is deeply wrong. Wilson says that he will not rest and close down the garage because he will miss too much business when Michaelis advises him to take a day off. Then when there is heard Myrtle fussing over her imprisonment in the upstairs
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Wilson Tom, Gatsby Wilson, Wilson Michaelis, Valley Ashes, Wilson Ive, Scott Fitzgerald, Michaelis Greek, Wilson Myrtle, East Coast, Daisy Buchanan, myrtle wilson, gatsby wilson, george wilson,
Approximate Word count = 840
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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