In chapter two, Tom and Nick are headed to Manhattan by train on a Sunday afternoon, and Tom insists on stopping at Wilson's garage. George Wilson passively accepts Tom's greeting and immediately asks him when he will sell him his car. Nick is not introduced to Wilson. Myrtle enters the scene and walks up to Tom, looks him directly in the eye, and shakes his hand warmly, ignoring Nick and directing her husband to "get some chairs, why don't you." Tom waits just until George Wilson is out of earshot to tell Myrtle to get on the next train to Manhattan. The missing introductions suggest several things: George and Myrtle Wilson's lack of social grace, Tom Buchanan's obliviousness and self-absorption, and the generally thoughtless and uncivilized behavior that Nick regularly observes over the course of the summer.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
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