How Is Unconditional Love Shown In The Great Gatsby

Myrtle values the wealthy lifestyle greatly. She would even go so far as to create a facade of what she believes those of high societal class would act like in order to achieve that, and ironically, mocks the poor in the process. In Chapter 2 she exclaims toward Nick, “ I told that boy about the ice...you have to keep after them all the time”(32). here it is proven that Myrtle believes in order to give everyone the impression that she is high class, she must act in a snobbish manner. Whereas Daisy who was born into wealth, values convenience majorly over the latter. Some may disagree and say that she values love, and it is true that she does search for love; However, this is contradicted when at the end of the day she stays with Tom Buchanan rather than Gatsby, as is shown in the last scene with them together, “ Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite of each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them, and two bottles of ale” (145). She stays with Tom only for her own societal convenience, and she is willing to follow through with it even though he is a generally abusive

Myrtle Wilson, also married, hides her love affair from her husband, George Wilson. She is extremely unhappy with her husband claiming when they met, "[she] thought he knew something…but he was not fit to [even] lick [her] shoe" (39). It is evident how important class and wealth is to Myrtle. Once she found out her husband was not rich she became utterly dissapointed. But when she first met Tom, "he had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and [she] couldn 't keep [her] eyes off him" (40). She is immediately attracted to Tom’s obvious wealth. Myrtle claims Tom Buchanan is the love of her life, that being said she uses Tom to escape the “Valley of Ashes.” She longs to live the American Dream amongst the wealthy, but struggles to keep up with the

For instance, Daisy is fully aware of her husbands infidelities, yet she does not say or do anything about it. She lives in this way because Tom has money and power and she benefits from these things and in turn is willing to deal with his affairs. Daisy portrays her selfish, cruel character when she treats her daughter as an object and wishes her to be a “beautiful little fool,” demonstrating Daisy’s perspective that the only way to make it in the world is through wealth and beauty (17). Even Gatsby, the one who loves Daisy most, states that her voice is “full of money” and it is the main focus in her life (120). Daisy has always lived a life of money, and when the time came, she had to marry into money to maintain her status and lifestyle. This is strongly reflected through her mannerisms with Gatsby. She continues to live with this facade, which provides her with some sense of security. Although Myrtle is a character representing the lower class, it is evident that she wishes to play the same role as Daisy. Myrtle constantly tries to come across as a very wealthy woman and wants others too see her as a member of the upper class. She gains entry into the elite social world through her secret affair with Tom where she finds the power and dominance she lacks in her everyday life. Myrtle longs for an easy life and believes that money can bring her that. Her world is framed by her narrow

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

There is new and old money in this story, new money is when you do something to become wealthy, which is what Gatsby did, and old money is when you were born rich, like Tom. [Note: People who are upper class are ones who have lots of money. They have fancy cars, fancy houses and much more] Myrtle is not upper class but she does desire to be. This later on causes her death, said above, everybody later finds out that Daisy was the one who hit Myrtle with her car which resulted in Myrtle’s death.

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)

To begin, the character of Myrtle Wilson carries out an affair with Tom Buchanan to obtain materialistic items motivated by her greed. In "The Great Gatsby" Myrtle Wilson demonstrates greed in the presence of Tom Buchanan. In essence, Tom is a wealthy individual, and Myrtle is able to conduct a luxurious lifestyle as long as she

As Myrtle develops her character throughout The Great Gatsby, she comes to think that what her and Tom are doing, sneaking around with each other and cheating on their spouses, is perfectly fine. However what she doesn’t come to realize is that Tom sees her as no more than just a woman of his desire.

Her unfaithful decision harms her marriage with George, leading her to unknown certain death and the loss of true happiness. Myrtle has the desire and hope of one day living a perfect, wealthy and famous type life, and is willing to do it at any cost. This exemplifies the one reason she wants to be with Tom, is because he represents the life of “the rich and famous”. When Myrtle first married George Wilson, she thought she was crazy about him and that they were happy together. Myrtle says, “The only crazy I 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 day when he was out”. This shows how materialistic Myrtle is, and how she didn’t appreciate how George couldn’t afford his own suit to get married in. Not only being attracted to Tom’s appearance but his money as well. She believes that Tom is the ideal man and represents the American dream. Myrtle uses Tom to inch her way to upper class by sleeping with him, as she is considered as lower class. Thinking Tom will save her causes damage and destroys Myrtle’s ambitions of being higher class as her life comes to an end when she is hit by a speeding car. Exemplifying how the desire for a luxurious life and American dream only caused agony in the novel and sadly ended a young woman’s

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

Myrtle did not have the fancy house, or loads of money; However, she did have a loyal husband that owned a business, with the potential to possibly create wealth for themselves. The chances were slim, and Myrtle realized this. Instead of working a little harder, she found a ‘get rich quick’ scheme, and that scheme was Tom Buchanan. When she tells the story of how they met, she says, “He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes…” (Fitzgerald 36). When she describes him with what he is wearing and not his physical attributes, it is obvious she was attracted to his wealthy aura. She tolerates abuse by Tom, just so she can get to the top of the social ladder. A bloom’s literature author agrees when saying, “Myrtle endures his constant abuse because she is attracted to the old wealth and glamour he represents” (Emin 1). Perhaps if she had not wanted the luxury, she would not have been in the situation in which got her killed. George would not have locked her up, and she would not have ran out in front of the car. Furthermore, her incessant need for the finer things in life, left her in a situation in which her fate was

She married George Wilson because she thought he would improve her social standing, and when that did not happen she leeched on to Tom. Page 34 says, “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). Again, Myrtle goes, “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 35). In saying this, it portrays that she only married him to her advantage, but backfired. Secondly, Myrtle knew that Tom would be able to provide for her in ways such as: money, status, and wealth. She stated, “I’m going to make a list of all the things I’ve got to get” (Fitzgerald 36). When she says this, it proves to us that she acts differently and is only with Tom because of his money, even when he abuses

The Great Gatsby is a novel written during the realism period. The book was published in 1925. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel based in the roaring twenties about two star crossed lovers who go behind their loved ones backs to have an affair . It is full of lies and deceit. A recurring theme in The Great Gatsby is love and how it destroys and ruin one's life and how you can never be fully satisfied by love. Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship has a series of ups and downs where they lie to each other and neither of them ever being happy .Fitzgerald uses the two lovers to express his point of view on love.

In an attempt to act fancy, she comes across as a snob who wants to be something she is not, an unattractive trait to have. Nick recognizes this as he articulates that she laughed at him “pointlessly”; since she is not actually wealthy, she has no reason to behave this way. Although Myrtle is portrayed as being confident, her desire for money, obtainable through Tom, shows that she is actually a distasteful, cheating woman, who uses her confidence to get what she wants out of men, although it doesn’t always

Myrtle Wilson, a relatively minor character, belongs to the lower classes, expresses a desire to upward social mobility, but is largely prevented from doing so due to her gender. She uses love to acquire wealth and has an extramarital affair with Tom. She is not happy with her lower social status and her husband George Wilson, a representative of the lower classes and a simple man with no grand ambitions, states in the novel: “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 28). Myrtle allows us to look at her accumulation of things, such as the down-town apartment which was “… crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continuously over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles” (Lindberg 16; Fitzgerald 35).