Corruption In The Great Gatsby

She has chosen to throw away her whole marriage for a glamorous wealthy life in East Egg. This can be seen when she first talks about the time she ever laid eyes on Tom. She remembers vividly what he was wearing. “It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train. I was going up to New York to see my sister and spend the night. He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him…” (Fitzgerald ) This quote in the book represents the phrase, “Met her at a beauty salon, With a baby Louis Vuitton, Under her underarm, She said I can tell you rock, I can tell by your charm..” I chose this stanza of the song for a multitude of reasons. One being that it’s implying that this woman knows nothing about this man, but just by looking at him and what he is wearing she can supposedly tell that he is a good charming man. This is what Myrtle did to Tom. She saw the fancy suit and decided to commit adultery with a man because he was well dressed. Myrtle then and there decided to throw her marriage away for

Myrtle is unhappy with her standard of living and George. A quote to support this is, “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (2.34). It is shown in this quote that Myrtle overestimated George’s money because he’s a mechanic and is unhappy she is living over a garage. In addition, that’s where Tom comes in and she has an affair with him. A quote to assist this would be, “Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know she’s alive” (2.26). In analysis of this quote, Myrtle uses Tom to get away from George and because Tom is wealthy and buys things for her. There was more than one reason to Myrtle’s affair with

Everyone in society has dreams, some bigger than others and some will go so far to lose what's most important to pursue the one dream they believe in. In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald tells the dream of Jay Gatsby and how it was too out of reach for him to obtain. Jay Gatsby is a very wealthy man who only cares about one thing in his life and that is to be with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is an upper class lady that Gatsby used to be in a relationship with before he went into the World War. While Gatsby was at war Daisy got married to someone else and for the past five years Gatsby has been trying to win her back through materialistic and un moral ways. Gatsby’s dream is to be with Daisy and to once again repeat his long lived past. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's pursuit of the green light to reveal that due to materialism and lack of moral rights that the American Dream is unattainable for society.

She realizes that about herself, but continues to think of herself very highly. She knows what she is but she hides her insecurities with a mask that has to do with her self-image. This mask hides her insecurities from the desires she wants her life. Myrtle is a married woman to a man named George. Myrtle initially got with George in hopes of him having money. When Myrtle finds out he does not she wants to back out but it is too late. Myrtle only wants people to think she has money, we see her doing unimaginable things to get this image. One of the levels of wrong is treating her husband poorly, but her lowest action is cheating. She commits adultery with Tom Buchanan, who is also a married man. Tom is an extremely wanted and high rank man with extensive amounts of money. Myrtle thinks she would be good enough for Tom by giving him what she wants. Myrtle sees an opportunity to have the life she has dreamed of with Tom. You see Myrtles jealousy and desire for Daisy’s life when she chants “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" to Tom. (Fitzgerald 41). In reality Tom is just bored and has to real desire to be with Myrtle. Some people think Myrtle could be recognized as a “gold-digger”, but in actuality she has trained herself to think that her mask is actually her true self. Myrtle truly believes that her happiness comes from

The desire to move from rags to riches lures Myrtle into a troubling but sumptuous affair. Myrtle believed that when she married George Wilson it was entirely beneath her. While at a party intoxicated Myrtle tells a close friend, “...when I married him I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in,” (Fitzgerald 35). This shows how greedy and materialistic Myrtle is. She fantasized about being rich and famous, which is why

Even though she is married to George she starts an affair with Tom Buchanan who is married to Daisy. Myrtle is very jealous of Daisy because Daisy has everything Myrtle wants. Tom Buchanan is a rich man who can buy her anything and is considered an alpha male in the book. Why does Myrtle want to have an affair with Tom while married to George? Money and money alone. Tom Buchanan may be attractive, but what does Tom have that George the mechanic does not? Money. That is the reason Myrtle thinks differently about her husband. For example, on page 26, when Tom arrives at George Wilson’s garage, Myrtle goes to shake hands with Tom, “walking through her husband as if he was a ghost.” The real reason Tom is going to George’s garage is because he wants to take Myrtle out. Myrtle lies to her husband saying she is going to see her sister while she is actually going to meet up with Tom. Also, on page 34, Myrtle talks about how she married a man that was in a class below her and that she deserves better. She says, “…but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.” Both of these quotes give hints as to how Myrtle thinks of her husband now that she is with

Myrtle is part of the lower class and Myrtle never really loved her husband,George. The reasoning for marrying George was because she thought he was wealthy. When Myrtle found out of his poverty she says, "I thought he knew something…but he was not fit to lick my shoe" (Fitzgerald 39).

He also uses Myrtles regret of her marriage lead to her death. When Myrtle realized that George wasn't wealthy she came up with a solution which was cheating. “The only crazy was when i married him, I knew right away it was a mistake.” (Fitzgerald 34) In a conversation with another character, Myrtle argues her regret for her partnership with George Wilson.

Myrtle Wilson is the second major character in The Great Gatsby. She is about 30 years old and is “faintly stout but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some woman can” (The Great Gatsby: Character). Myrtle is married to George Wilson, also a mistress to Tom Buchanan. She is not happy with her marriage nor her lifestyle. Myrtle is part of the lower class of society making her poor. With them being poor they end up living in their car garage. George seemed like a gentleman and that is why Myrtle married him, but turns out that he wasn’t. Tom is part the upper class of society which attracts Myrtle to him. They spend a lot of time in the city together. She has an excuse to tell George that she is visiting her sister. George is getting a suspicion that Myrtle is up to no good, and locks her up in a closet. Myrtle being upset, notices a yellow car thinking it was Tom because she noticed him driving it earlier, she runs to the car to get away from George

Wilson had changed her costume some time before and now was attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon” (30). The change of clothing is parallel with the change in Myrtle's personality which shows how Myrtle untruthfully changes her appearance for Tom because of her eagerness to be associated with money and sophistication. Furthermore, during the conversation with Catherine- Myrtle’s sister- and Myrtle, Catherine questions why Myrtle got married. At first, Myrtle replies “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman, I thought he knew something about breeding...” (37).

“‘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 told me about it...” ( Fitzgerald,39), Myrtles little speech Indicates her regret of marrying someone that lacks wealth and a social position like George wilson. It is clear to the readers that Myrtle is not after affection and protection, she is after materialistic items, that have value to them, which she receives from her “secret lover” Tom Buchanan. Myrtle has the idea that if she has an affair with Tom, he will divorce his wife Daisy and marry her, so she can move up the social ladder. She is desirous of Daisy's life, Daisy has everything Myrtle lacks, the money, Tom and a high social status. Her desire to be as important as Daisy to Tom is shown when she shouted “‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’”(Fitzgerald,41),in this chapter Myrtle realizes she could never replace Daisy because Top slaps her across the face speaking his wife’s name, who he does respect and love. Myrtle also believes that she went up the social ladder because she shares an apartment with Tom, in New York. “‘I told that boy about the ice.’ Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. ‘These people! You have to keep after them all the time.”(Fitzgerald,35). She truly believes that speaking in a snobby tone, makes her sound wealthy. To most Myrtle is a subordinate, dependent women, but in reality she uses men to escape poverty and live a lavish

The marriage of Myrtle and George was all based on Myrtle’s first impressions of George. When they first met, George was wearing a very fancy tuxedo. This caught the attention of Myrtle immediately. She got the idea that George was a very wealthy man due to his luxurious clothing. What woman wouldn’t want to marry a rich man in the 1920s, because that is what it was all about, “class”, social status, and wealth.

Myrtle is married to a man by the name of George Wilson who owns a rundown auto shop in the valley of the ashes. She loved her husband at one point but he didn't turn out to be the man that she expected him to be. Tom and Myrtle while She was heading to New York City to see her sister. She and Tom ended up on two little seats on the train facing each other and whatever happened on that trains must've really meant something to Myrtle. Even though she lived in a poor man's land she was corrupted by her unreachable dreams of extreme wealth and fortune. She knows Tom is married to Daisy and at one point she mentions her name at a party in their apartment together in the city. "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson. "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai –– ". Tom had quickly stopped Myrtle from finishing her word by hitting her in her face and breaking her nose with an opened hand. Tom is showing his desire to keep the two parts of his life completely separate. He had Daisy, his beautiful, socially elevated, wealthy wife, whom he loved and protected in his own brutal fashion. He also had Myrtle, whose lust for life fed his ego and whose sexual attraction was undeniable. Tom is also demonstrating his expectation that he should always be able to make the rules and that they should be obeyed without question. Tom is accustomed to having his own way; when Myrtle doesn't immediately

"'I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.' She said finally. 'I thought he knew something about breeding but he wasn't fit enough to lick my shoe.'" (Fitzgerald, 39). With the hope of being accepted into an upper social class, Myrtle's morals and prior beliefs are gone, being replaced by the false impression that by betraying her loving husband, this new social world will embrace her.

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