Mad Myrtle Alternate Ending

During chapter two, Myrtle Wilson is introduced. Nick shares how he feels about Myrtle. Myrtles physical appearances are greatly emphasized as Nick describes her body “sweeping”

Because she is foolish, Myrtle is responsible for her own death. She ran in front of a moving vehicle. She stepped in front of a two-ton automobile. Pedestrians are not always faultless.

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

“Beat me!” he heard her cry. “Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!” (Page 137) This quote has a lot of significances because it shows how Myrtle has no respect for her husband, as if she truly is convinced she is in a higher class than

Myrtle has been affected by both socioeconomic and gender inequity. She is unhappy being trapped in the lower middle class in the valley of ashes, but she can not work hard to raise her status because she is a woman. When Myrtle first married George Wilson, she thought she was marrying a rich man, but she later realizes that this was a trick and Wilson is very poor: “‘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.’ She looked around to see who was listening. ‘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

Octavios explained and then Emily started to get mad and she zipped right out of the rocket then she sensed that her sister was in danger but Emily was going the wrong way she was heading to earth Emma's point of view she was flying ( they don't really fly though) around and then saw Octavios holding there mom and dada hostages do then they were trying to get out but they couldn't so Emma started to come at them and then Octavios hooded her with his powers and she was squirming around then he said in a snarled voice "stop squirming or your the first one to be dropped in the twig of death" "well if I stop squirming then who will be dropped down the twig of death?" " I don't no" ( the twig of death is the most deadliest thing that you can imagine) and the Octavios did his famous evil laugh it sort of went like this hahahahaha cough cough you no what I don't need to laugh right now" "why because you are old?" Then she looked worried because she just noticed what she just said and she was nervously laughing " CUT that is awesome" the director said "that was amazing for our new show thank you thank you, you guys are amazing at that" " well we wouldn't be without you so we are going to thank you every time we see you" Emily said

Even though myrtles nerves were smoldering, she acted as calm as she could, she came down the stairs smiling slowly and sked her husband to get chairs as soon as he leaves she talks to tome in a course voice.

“Free spirits evolved thru the war chaos and a final inevitable escape from restraint and inhibitions”(sanderson, 90). The fact that Myrtle is ”Tom Buchanan’s mistress”(Chapter 2, page 16) is enough to harm Daisy. “A moment later she rushed into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting; before he could move from his door the business was over.”(Chapter 7, Page 103). Earlier that day Tom was driving in Gatsby’s car and Gatsby was in Tom’s car. Myrtle thought that when Gatsby and Daisy was coming down the road, that it was Tom so she tried to get his attention but daisy was driving and just ran into her. When Tom told George whose car hit Myrtle, George went to Gatsby’s house and shot Gatsby. That is how Myrtle’s actions hurt George, Gatsby, and

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)

Myrtle, who represents the low and ignorant class of America, tried to break the social barriers and thus pursues wealth by any means necessary. Using her sexuality and crude appearance, she becomes false for abandoning and dismissing her own social foundation, and like Nick, we as readers are disgusted by her monstrous approach to entering the rich class. At one point, and quite humorously to the knowing onlooker, Myrtle complains about a service done for her that was so expensive. Obviously misusing her wording, it is comical only because she is trying so hard to fit into the stuck-up upper class personality, and failing miserably.

Nick does not think Tom and Myrtle really loves each other (Hays, “Fitzgerald”). Everyone knew about Tom’s affair with Myrtle expect Myrtle’s husband. Nick left Tom and Myrtle at his house when he went to the store. Nick buys some cigarettes and finds Tom and Myrtle in his bedroom (Hays, “Fitzgerald”).

Tom was having an affair with Myrtle. He says, “I want to see you, and get on the next train.” She replies, “All right, I’ll meet you by the news-stand” (30). These

Myrtle is false, for example she possesses “artificial laughter” and acts in a way she believes someone from a higher class would and comes across as “haughty”. She is the victim of two acts of violence, Tom Buchanan hits her and Daisy kills her, so it is surprising that the reader tends not to feel sorry for her or be able to empathise with her. This could be because we do not know her true character. The negative aspects of her personality, for example, the fact that she buys a puppy that she cannot possibly care for shows she is irresponsible and thoughtless. She also spends Tom Buchanan’s money recklessly, which emphasises her carelessness. Myrtle is rude about Nick and her husband, she raises her eyebrows in “disdain” and points at Nick saying “I never was any more crazy about him than I was about that man there”.

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

Myrtle Wilson is one of the characters who chases empty dreams. She has a strong desire to escape what she feels to be a lower class lifestyle and enter the ranks of the upper class. Furthermore, she is obsessed by appearances and unaware of realities, as is shown in her excessive concern of clothing. She attempts to impress the upper society while looking down upon the members of her class. "Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the stiflessness of the lower orders, “These people! You have to keep after them." (Fitzgerald 36)