'Wilsons' incoherent muttering changed - he grew quieter and began to talk about the yellow car.' pg151
Verbs of utterance reflect his instability
Weakened in comparison to Tom
'it was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the Gardner saw Wilsons body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete.' pg154
Discarded and tossed to the side
'he's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive' pg29
'walking through her husband as if he were a ghost' pg28
'i've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go west.' pg118
'mingling immediately with the cement colour of the walls. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity - except his wife.' pg28
'a blond, spiritless man. anaemic and faintly handsome.' pg27