George Wilson wrongly believes that it was Gatsby who struck and killed Myrtle. He knows that it was a yellow car that cut down his wife in the middle of the road; he also knows that when Tom stopped by his gas station to fill up, he was driving a yellow car. Yet Tom is able to persuade George that the car he was driving wasn't really his after all, despite what he'd originally told him. Tom's desperate attempt to dig himself out of trouble plants in George's tortured, grief-stricken mind the notion that if he can track down the owner of the car, then he'll have his wife's killer. Once he finds out the car belongs to Jay, it's game over for Gatsby.
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