Laertes is fatally wounded by his own poisoned sword during a duel with Hamlet, and he dies after asking for forgiveness and blaming his actions on Claudius.
Gatsby is shot and killed by George Wilson, the husband of Myrtle Wilson, whom Gatsby's car had accidentally hit and killed earlier in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby.
Meyer Wolfsheim is a shady business associate and mentor of Gatsby's who is rumored to have ties to organized crime in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby.
Tiresias predicts that Odysseus will finally return to Ithaca, but only after a long and difficult journey, during which he will face many trials and tribulations, and will also need to make a sacrifice to the gods in Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.
Nick describes himself as someone who is "inclined to reserve all judgments" and who "wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever."