Scott Fitzergald's The Great Gatsby challenges the American dream by proving that if you have glamorous dreams of wealth and fame, but if you weren't born rich, there's only one way to get there, and that's cheating. However, you will still end up in a bad situation if you betray that dream. Gender has absolutely nothing to do with where you stand if you are rich. Also, women's rights were emerging in this era, so women had more freedom and could find work if they wanted. Wilson was born in poverty and remains in poverty, and his wife tramples him. He makes his money honestly sure, but where he lives is a terrible place to live, so he doesn't do business. The reason he lives there is because he can't buy a better place. Wilson is weak and anemic because he doesn't have much food with the money he earns. Ultimately, Wilson killed himself after shooting Gatsby, who he thought had run away. about his wife, Myrtle, because Tom told her so. It was a chain reaction, you might say, because it started with Myrtle's greed killing her by Gatsby, who was killed by Wilson, and then by Wilsonki....