Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Myrtle yearns to be with Tom and live in his wealth but is prevented from doing so by Tom and Daisy. For instance, when Daisy tries to leave Tom for Gatsby, Tom does not exactly dismiss Myrtle, “…but there is no question that she would eventually be discarded” (Donaldson). Myrtle is so infatuated with Tom, she forgot that he can just as well choose Daisy over her. He has the upper hand, as a rich man with control over women especially when it comes to his relationships. While to Tom, Myrtle’s gender has made her just one of his possessions, to Myrtle, Tom’s rich and high status as a man has made him her only path to a higher class. Due to her infatuation with Tom, she often becomes jealous and possessive when she finds a threat to their relationship. Myrtle is so overcome with desire for Tom that she cannot stand the thought of him with another women. Even when she sees Tom in the car with Jordan Baker, Myrtle’s, “… eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she too to be his wife” (Fitzgerald 125). Myrtle is so convinced that Tom is hers, when in reality, she is really Tom’s. Myrtle has almost forgotten the fact that as an inferior women, she has little control over the situation. The reality is that Tom was in control of the relationship and used Myrtle for his lustrous desires. Tom’s rejection of Myrtle causes her to become overrun with jealousy. In

Myrtle Wilson, the wife of George, and the lover of Tom Buchanan, is brutally murdered toward the end of the novel. After an uncivilized afternoon in New York, Daisy and Gatsby head swiftly back to East Egg. Gatsby explains to Nick, “It all happened in a minute, but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew” (Fitzgerald 109). Myrtle ran out toward the car looking for Tom but sadly for her it is not him. Many know about Tom’s affair, but not with whom he is having it, especially Daisy. Daisy never slows the car down, and she never realizes who she hits. This shows that Daisy is oblivious to Myrtles existence. Myrtle is sleeping with her husband, she ruins their marriage, and Daisy kills her. The irony exists in this because Daisy actually saves her marriage by killing

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the two central women presented are Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. These two women, although different, have similar personalities. Throughout the novel, there are instances in which the reader feels bad for and dislikes both Daisy and Myrtle. These two women portray that wealth is better than everything else, and they both base their lives on it. Also the novel shows the hardships and difficulties they have in their marriages. They are never satisfied with what they have, and are always longing for more.

Tom’s little infidelity with Myrtle was a start to Wilson losing it. One day Tom goes to Wilson’s shop and witnesses Myrtle being locked up in a cage for something he did. “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick” (Fitzgerald, 124) ‘“ I’ve got my wife locked in up there,” explained Wilson calmly”’ (Fitzgerald, 136). Tom’s infidelity with Myrtle made Wilson so sick that he had to lock up her own wife so she wouldn’t leave him. Myrtle was everything Wilson had and he would do anything if she was taken away from him. This started the fuse that would later explode into chaos later

These characters use cheating to get what they want when they want, which in the end lead to their downfall. Due to Tom not being happy with Daisy, he had decided that instead of trying to divorce her, he would cheat on her with Myrtle Wilson. On their way to lunch, Tom needed to stop for gas at Wilson’s. While there Wilson begins to tell Tom that he and Myrtle are planning on going West, the reason why was that Wilson finally noticed that Myrtle was having an affair, but Wilson did not know with who. While Tom and Wilson are talking, Nick notices Myrtle in the upstairs window looking down at Tom.

His arrogance causes him to taint his “committed” marriage to Daisy, and have an affair with another character dissatisfied with life, Myrtle. Myrtle explains, “Well I married [George], and that’s the difference between your case and mine. 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” (34). Myrtle is yet another character unhappy with their marriage. She feels entitled to be treated better, that she deserves more than her “gentleman” husband, George. Tom is just the person she believes can provide her with all the comforts and luxuries that she desires, using him to weasel her way into the world of the

Myrtle Wilson is obsessed with leaving her poor life behind her by being with Tom but unlike Gatsby, her attempts are fruitless. She attempts to make herself seem an upper class person like when she changed her dress before the party in chapter two. She believes her husband is beneath her and talks of all low statuses as if she isn’t one of them. "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." (42)

(pg. 26) d. Myrtle is introduced as Tom’s mistress. She adds conflict because she knows that Tom has Daisy and a child. She also has a husband of her own who is George Wilson. Tom gives her the life she wants, and that she doesn’t have.

While all previous cases of Wilson have been employed as a means of further developing characters. Complementing this role, Wilson also plays a noteworthy part in plot development. Following the death of Myrtle, who Daisy, in fact, killed, Wilson learns of Myrtle's affair. However, through his own odd logic, Wilson comes to believe that Myrtle was running out to see her lover, when in fact she was running away from Wilson himself.

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel features Jay Gatsby, George Wilson, Nick Carraway, Jordan Baker and Tom Buchanan along with many others to show the hopes, the struggles and the romance the characters went through each and every day. Due to the mixing of the two social classes: the rich and the poor, we learn about the causes and effects of what they face. In the book, two major characters that greatly influenced this story were Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. Both of them had difficulties in the way they acted, felt, and where they belonged to. They also have some relatable characteristics that are alike

Myrtle is chasing her American dream by having an affair with Tom Buchanan.Tom is a very wealthy man who is married to Daisy.Myrtle is unhappy with her husband George who is not a very wealthy man.Her image of living the dream was to go with Tom.She felt that her life would be complete and live the life that she was meant to

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

Consequently, Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson are two completely different characters in many ways. Firstly, Daisy and Myrtle are different in the physical aspect, for example Myrtle is a, “thickish sort of a woman… with an immediate perceptible vitality about her. She smiled slowly… then she wet her lips.” Using a biblical allusion, the author fashions Myrtle into the adulteress woman in proverbs “there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart. She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house… so she caught him and kissed him.” (Pr. 7 vs. 10-13) Likewise Myrtle is a woman who is considered sensual, and she uses her smoldering body to attract Tom for her own gratification and satisfaction. However, Daisy in her physical appearance is “Dressed in white, her face sad and lovely, bright eyes and her voice a singing compulsion, a whispered listen.” The author

Myrtle Wilson is married to her husband, George Wilson, who lacks her satisfaction because he possess no riches. They reside, unhappily, in the Valley of Ashes together. Showing how unhappy she is with her husband, Myrtle says, ““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, and the man came after it one day when he was out. ‘Oh, is that your suit?’ I said. ‘This is the first I ever heard about it.’ But I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon”” (Fitzgerald 35). This demonstrates how disappointed Myrtle is that she is not married to a rich man because she so desperately desires riches and

Myrtle had a very rich lifestyle; she loved to wear expensive clothes and have expensive items. Myrtle had a hard time to fulfill her expensive lifestyle because George Wilson was very poor. To solve this problem she began to date Tom and she fell in love with his money. Tom would buy her anything she asked for and kept it at their apartment, “I want to get one of those dogs...I want to get one for the apartment” (Fitzgerald 31). Fitzgerald showed the readers having an affair for the money will not end well. When George discovered Myrtle having an affair, as a loving husband would, accused her of the affair. Myrtle screamed at Mr. Wilson, “Beat me. Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward” (Fitzgerald 144). The termination of Tom and Myrtle’s affair was when Myrtle was killed by the intoxicated Daisy after this