<P> On the way back , Gatsby 's car strikes and kills Tom 's mistress , Myrtle . Nick later learns from Gatsby that Daisy , not Gatsby himself , was driving the car at the time of the accident . Myrtle 's husband , Wilson , falsely concludes that the driver of the yellow car is the secret lover he suspects she has . He learns that the yellow car is Gatsby 's , fatally shoots him and then turns the gun on himself . Nick stages an unsettlingly small funeral for Gatsby which none of Gatsby 's associates or partygoers attend . Later , Nick runs into Tom in New York and finds out that Tom had told George that the yellow car was Gatsby 's and gave him Gatsby 's address . Disillusioned with the East , Nick moves back to the Midwest . </P>
<P> On the way back , Gatsby 's car strikes and kills Tom 's mistress , Myrtle . Nick later learns from Gatsby that Daisy , not Gatsby himself , was driving the car at the time of the accident . Myrtle 's husband , Wilson , falsely concludes that the driver of the yellow car is the secret lover he suspects she has . He learns that the yellow car is Gatsby 's , fatally shoots him and then turns the gun on himself . Nick stages an unsettlingly small funeral for Gatsby which none of Gatsby 's associates or partygoers attend . Later , Nick runs into Tom in New York and finds out that Tom had told George that the yellow car was Gatsby 's and gave him Gatsby 's address . Disillusioned with the East , Nick moves back to the Midwest . </P>
who gets run over in the great gatsby
who gets run over in the great gatsby
Tom 's mistress , Myrtle
Tom 's mistress , Myrtle