9/11 Short Stories

“That wasn’t you right?” I whisper in Bryson's ear. All it earns me is a blank stare

Myrtle yearned to be a part of a higher social class. Her husband George owned a run-down garage. Without a large income she can’t live a life of luxury. Her lust for a higher social class actually consequently ended in her death. Her husband George knew about her infidelity and was not happy about it.

“We brought you here because Anna is studying you in class, and needs to ask you some questions .” Paisley said with a smile. “

"First of all shutup, second of all I'm going to the fair after dinner," I snap.

Next, when Myrtle sees that she can live the more luxurious life she always wanted she has an affair with Tom. Myrtle is a woman living in the slums of the city, unhappy with her marriage, and feels her husband cannot provide the lifestyle she wants. When Myrtle is having guest over at her and Tom’s apartment, they discussion Myrtle's marriage, to which she states; “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he was not fit to lick my shoe...The only crazy I was was when I married him, I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never even

Myrtle played out her desires in the small apartment Tom kept for them to get away to in New York. Nick describes the apartment to be was filled with furniture of a more affluent life style that seemed to be condensed into the small living room. One night Myrtle invited guests over, Myrtle changed her clothes, took on a more fake persona, "With the influence of the dress (Myrtle's) personality had also undergone a change... Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment." (Fitzgerald,35) By pretending to live a lifestyle that was proven to be untrue, she had achieved what she felt was a better lifestyle, a life like Daisy's. Just as Myrtle realizes that she is unhappy in her marriage the same way Daisy is dissatisfied with her own marriage. Myrtle tells her sister that although she was “crazy for him” when she met him, she did not know that he was not a “gentleman”, She thought that she was crazy about him and thought that they were happy being together. Myrtle says, “The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it one say when he was out…”

Myrtle Wilson: At least you didn’t marry him. I married him. And that's the difference between your case and mine. I thought he was a gentleman, but I was completely wrong.

After feeling distant from his wife for some time, Wilson feels reason to believe his wife is having an affair behind his back. This causes Wilson to become very angry at his wife making him lock her in the apartment and forcing her to move out of the city with him. Myrtle is very

It had gone quiet. We goted into Tom’s car and headed to the house. On the way to the house we had ran into a fighting scene. The women I meet a couple days ago, Myrtle was now

finds the expensive dog collar. Myrtle “trie[s] to tell [him] something funny about it, but [he]

“Sorry I distracted you.” Sandra confessed, “I was going to tell you that he was talking to you.”

We stopped at the gas station and Wilson was no longer to be found. Tom rushed out and roared at the door and then we heard Myrtle screaming at her sick husband “No! I will not go with you!” Tom broke down the door and Jordan and I watched dumbfoundedly, as we did not know what to do with ourselves, but what watch. We heard a crash and Tom came out with Myrtle and we took her to the apartments that Tom bought them. Jordan decided to mention where Daisy and Gatsby were and Tom recollected himself and abruptly left Myrtle and promised her that he would go back for her.

Laying backwards to look up at the wispy clouds, the youngest of the three girls sighed, “Emily, you done got us in a load of trouble this time. So now you gonna tell us what Mad Myrtle had that you wanted so bad?”

Myrtle desires wealth and luxuries, and as a result she has an affair with Tom, who gives her anything she yearns for. Myrtle despises her lifestyle with her husband, George Wilson, due to the lower-class living and dirty, physical labor. She explains how, “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman … I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (Fitzgerald, 34). Myrtle planned to marry a rich man, so in the future he could support her children and herself, and they would be members of

“Here I am, minding my own business, and someone thinks it’s funny to throw a book at me. . . .” (229-230) In short, Myrtle finds a way to fight back when the patriarchy tries to invade the protection their moveable gender boundaries provide once more. If they are going to press into her safe space, the one place the patriarchy gave her to be vulnerable, Myrtle will use her vulnerability to push them back out.