what is significant about the car accident in the great gatsby novel
From the room in which she is locked, Myrtle sees Tom and the car. When she sees the car coming her way... The important detail concerning the accident that kills Myrtle in The Great Gatsby is that Myrtle is hailing the car, because she thinks Tom, the person she is having the affair with, is driving the car. Earlier in the day when Tom stops for gas at the Wilson's business he is driving Gatsby's car.