George Flashcards
description of George about his health
“spiritless” “anaemic” “faintly handsome”
“sell it somewhere else” Georges response ->
“I just meant–” his voice faded off”
George is lifeless and unable to provide for Myrtle
“walking through her husband as if he were a ghost”
Physical description of George
“A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit” “pale hair”
There is no difference between Tom and George
“Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before.”
“there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well”
after George finds out about Myrtle
“unforgivably guilty”
He want’s to leave VOA
“My wife and I want to go west”
George trying to be dominant like Tom
“I’ve got my wife looked up in there.”
George does not have strong masculinity
“his wife’s man and not his own”
George is not full of life
“colourless way”
Myrtle calls George…
“little coward”
George is lonely
“Wilson had no friend”
George cannot satisfy his wife
“not enough of him for his wife”
Fitzgerald utilises the character of George to highlight how the morals and judgement of God is fading
“God see’s everything”
