Our next character that we will talk about is George B. Wilson. In the book and film, George Wilson is married to Myrtle Wilson. Nick describes him as a blond, light blue-eyed, spiritless man who is faintly handsome. He also is well aware his wife is unfaithful and basically lives in her shadow. George is a minor character in the novel and doesn’t have much purpose until the final chapters of the story. In the 1974 film George B. Wilson is played by Scott Wilson. And in the 2013 film the character is played by Jason Clarke. I felt like the two characters portrayed George Wilson well. If you look at the pictures above or below, you will see many similarities between the two George’s. This is actually an uncommon thing for the films but they were both pretty spot on when it came to how we assumed George would look. He doesn’t say much and it’s almost like he actually is just a shadow. In the films, they also made sure to give him a messier look compared to all of the other characters. As I mentioned, George’s character became more relevant in the final chapters of the book. Because as we know, his wife is killed by someone in a yellow car and although he knows she had an affair going on, he wanted revenge for that and whoever killed her. He had assumed that whoever drove the yellow car had to also be the one Myrtle was having an affair with. George Wilson is the character that ends up killing Gatsby. He then proceeded to kill himself as well.
