The reactions to Myrtle's death run the gamut from shocked to indifferent.
Mr. Wilson is understandably distraught at his wife's demise. Immediately following the accident, Nick sees him "swaying back and forth," and emitting a "high, horrible call" of despair: "Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od!" Wilson's grief eventually gives way to a deep anger and a desire for revenge. He goes walking to find and kill the driver who ran down his wife. Michaelis theorizes that he went "from garage to garage thereabout, inquiring for a yellow car," but Nick suggests he had "an easier, surer way of finding out," implying Tom Buchanan may have told him where to find Gatsby.
Tom's reaction is similarly evolving. At first, he seems most concerned with establishing his own alibi to distance himself from any connections that might be made between himself and Gatsby. He tells Wilson, "That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn't mine... I haven't seen it all afternoon." A little later, as he and Nick drive away from the death scene, Nick hears "a low husky sob," and reports that "tears were overflowing down [Tom's] face." The following fall, when Nick coincidentally encounters Tom in Manhattan, Tom expresses his anger at Gatsby: "He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car." He describes his grief when he returned to "that flat and saw that box of dog biscuits," whereupon he "sat down and cried like a baby." Whether Tom knows Daisy killed Myrtle is never made explicit in the text, and his grief, while seemingly sincere, is nevertheless out of character for him.
Nick's emotions immediately following Myrtle's death are never revealed; his role is simply that of the narrator in this section, and he seems detached and objective, merely describing the scene. Later that night, however, when Nick encounters Gatsby waiting outside the Buchanans' house, he is filled with disgust and suspicion towards his now "despicable" friend, whom he "disliked." Nick says, "For all I knew he was going to rob the house," and imagines the "sinister faces" of "'Wolfsheim's people'" are watching. After learning Daisy was the one driving the car that killed Myrtle, Nick's rejection of Gatsby gives way to compassion. He reveals to the reader the details of Gatsby and Daisy's doomed courtship, and of Tom Buchanan's entrance into her life with a tone quite sympathetic towards Gatsby. The next morning, as he and Gatsby part for the last time, he calls out, "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Gatsby himself seems entirely unmoved by Myrtle's violent death, so consumed is he by thoughts of Daisy, who essentially terminated their relationship back at the Plaza Hotel. He asks Nick if Myrtle was killed, and when Nick confirms that she was, he simply says, "I thought so." Instead of expressing grief or remorse, Gatsby reassures Nick that "Daisy... stood it pretty well." The next day, Nick suggests that he "go away," perhaps to "Atlantic City or Montreal" until things blow over, but Gatsby refuses. He assures Nick that he and Daisy will reunite, telling him Daisy barely knew what she was saying the day before at the hotel. As he leaves, Gatsby says, "I suppose Daisy'll call..." and Nick, although he knows better, replies, "I suppose so."
The only character whose reaction we never see is Daisy. In a brief scene that's filled with implication, however, Nick reports that on the night of the accident, he sees Daisy and Tom through their window, "sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table," and that "anybody would have said that they were conspiring together."
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