Despite Mr. Carraway’s passionate argument, rumors are flying about the Gatsby homicide. Perhaps Wilson’s wife, Miss Myrtle Wilson, was the woman who Gatsby had been ushering into his house secretly during the party-less week. As written about in last week’s issue, Myrtle Wilson was killed in a hit-and-run car accident. In mourning and jealous, is it possible that Mr. George Wilson found out about the affair and went off to kill Gatsby? Despite all the town’s constant gossip, it seems that there is proof to argue against it. Miss Wilson’s sister, Catherine, swears “that her sister had never seen Gatsby, that her sister was completely happy with her husband, [and] that her sister had been into no mischief whatsoever.” Therefore, it seems that the only logical conclusion left to make is that Mr. Wilson was simply deranged by grief and went off to kill. Whether or not he knew Gatsby is debatable, but everyone can agree that Wilson, a poor man from the “Valley of Ashes,” may have been jealous of the man with the huge mansion and new money fortune.
Despite much controversy, Mr. Jay Gatsby is dead, and no explanation can change that. His parties will be missed. Funeral announcements will be made later this week.
"Gatsby smiled understandingly–much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistable prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
-Unknown Friend