And now, the end is near….You'll be pleased to see a nice Don't Starve twist to the end.
And on an interesting side note, the gas station attendant's name in the book is Wilson. Due to the one-Steve limit cited in TV Tropes, however, he remains nameless to keep our Wilsons straight.
Don't Starve © 2013 Klei Entertainment
Great Gatsby © 2013 Baz Luhrmann
The gas station attendant had done it, apparently, convinced by Tom that Maxwell had killed his wife. He had killed himself afterward.
Wilson noted it as he noted the sparse funeral—in a fog. Willow had tried to talk to him at the graveyard, but he left without saying a word.
As time went on, he continued to distance himself from West Egg, from people, from everything except his science, until he ended up in a small town in New England. Shanter Town, the market said. Even there, he distanced himself, until he was living by himself in a cabin in the middle of the woods. Buried himself in his work.
Anything to keep from remembering that one summer.
And yet it haunted him. Like the ghost of that time had followed him wherever he went, casting a specter on his science and causing him to fail even at that.
He wanted what Maxwell had wanted—to go back to that one point in time when everything worked.
And thus when his radio spoke to him after yet another failed experiment—spoke to him in a very familiar voice—he was inclined to listen.
"Say, pal, you don't look so good…."