Relationship Between Myrtle Wilson And Jay Gatsby

His actions show that he is not loyal nor respectful towards Daisy, instead displaying apathy and disinterest. In addition to acting uncompassionate towards Daisy, he is also not taking into consideration Myrtle’s feelings. In fact, he lies to her in order to stop himself from being forced into a committed relationship. This lie that Tom tells Myrtle is not only extremely false, but also shows he is simply using her. “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce” (Fitzgerald 33). Tom lying to Myrtle shows he has no intention of marrying her, instead he only wants to take advantage of her vulnerable state. Myrtle is unhappy and desperate to fulfill her dream of moving up social classes. Instead of acting sympathetically towards her situation, he exploits her weakness. Likewise, Daisy and Gatsby’s affair shows similar exploitation for one’s own personal needs over the emotions of their counterpart. Without Tom’s knowledge, Daisy has an affair with her long lost love, Gatsby. Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour… (Fitzgerald 105). During this affair Daisy shows no acknowledgement of Tom’s feelings, the man she married and pledged to be loyal to. At the same time, she is also exploiting Gatsby. Authors say, “...his desire to marry Daisy as an attempt to enter/create

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

Motif in the Great Gatsby Infidelity is the motif that is central to the plot of The Great Gatsby that connects to the theme of moral corruption in 1920s America. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, and Daisy with Gatsby. While these characters have their own motives behind their unfaithfulness, is it easy to apprehend that they are morally corrupt. Tom has a physical affair with Myrtle.

You probably haven’t heard of “ The Great Gatsby” or maybe you have, either way read the book or watch the movie. The book was written and published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, and is based in a fictional town called West Egg on Long Island during the summer of 1922. He talks about a group of people who are all in some kind of . Although we don’t hear much about Myrtle, i will be telling you what I think of her. I chose to talk about her because although we don’t hear from her that much she plays a big role in the book.

In the novel and film, The Great Gatsby is about a man who had everything except the love of his life. It truly represents the American Dream, which is having the independence and ability to make something out of yourself if you try hard enough (The Great Gatsby Theme Of Visions Of America). F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel and Baz Luhrmann’s film of The Great Gatsby are very similar, but they do have some differences.

Acceptance of the Absence of Morals The time period of the roaring 20s shows heightened levels of aggression, attraction, and grand affairs. These common themes are depicted through the characters and their actions in The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nearly every character has lost one of their morals during the course of Nick’s stay in West Egg. Due to there being a series of disagreements between, Myrtle and Tom, Daisy and Tom, Tom and Wilson, and Wilson and Gatsby, the level of aggression is high while most of their conflicts arise from adulterous actions.

Myrtle’s goal was to achieve a form of substantial wealth and some form of escape from her lower-middle class life with George Wilson in the valley of ashes. Myrtle’s dream was perhaps more easily fulfilled because it could be deemed as more material, while Gatsby desired also desired certain immaterial things, to ascend to the old aristocracy, and therefore Daisy’s hand in marriage. However, Myrtle pursued similar means to Gatsby, choosing to use im moral means, just as Gatsby took part in bootlegging, she engaged in an affair with Tom Buchanan. This helped her to achieve the material aspect of her American Dream, as shown when Tom showers her with material gifts and wealth. Myrtle continues to take it upon herself to become a fitting

Both characters have connections to Tom, Daisy is married to Tom while Myrtle is the female that Tom has an affair with away from Daisy. Daisy is also involved in an affair of her own with her former lover Gatsby who lives across the way in West Egg, opposite of East Egg. Throughout the story we see how Myrtle is wanted by Tom because of his physical attraction to her, whereas Daisy is wanted by Gatsby out of pure romance and idealism(Mellard 855). This contrast also gives readers more of an insight into the type of people that Tom and Gatsby are and what both of them care about. It also shows what kind of people Daisy and Myrtle and whether or not they care about their appearance to others and what kind of dignity they have in themselves. Daisy’s relationship with Tom has never been strong at all, "It'll show you how I've gotten to feel about – things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling”(17). Meanwhile Myrtle’s relationship is also not the best with the Tom, “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”(37). These two scenes showed a lot about the two women because after all the years of neglection, Daisy decides to go Gatsby and get away from Tom, but Myrtle on the other hand stays with Tom even through all the abuse because he is the only option she really

Both Myrtle and Gatsby are characters with romantic aspirations and believers in the American Dream. However, their ideals are perverted by the materialistic standards of society. Myrtle is trapped in poverty and momentary escapes come in the form of Tom Buchanan and the secret apartment. She uses Tom’s money to create what she thinks the upper class has, but is still limited by the space she has. All Myrtle’s nice things, such as the oversized furniture, just end up making it difficult to move just like how difficult it is for her to move up her socioeconomic status. Gatsby may own an abundance of material things, but all of it cannot satisfy him as his American Dream is incomplete without Daisy. He only has a lot of nice things to impress

Wilson gives to Myrtle his complete trust in the same way he provides Myrtle with what she asks for, but she abuses it. She takes her husband for granted while at the same time, she gazes at Tom sitting on a pedestal she has made for him. Tom is the man that can make Myrtle's every fantasy come true, but also the man that will lead to her early death. Myrtle is seen to be a fun and floozy mistress, but not as a real wife. She, as superficial as it may be, is not someone that Tom could take to parties and introduce to his parents. Myrtle controls Wilson, while Tom manipulates her simply for enjoyment. For example, Tom tells Myrtle that the reason they could never wed is because his wife, Daisy, is Catholic and she would never stand for a divorce. In this scene, Catherine, Myrtle's sister, tells Nick Carraway, the narrator, about the reasons why Tom and Myrtle may never come

Myrtle had love for her husband. "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." "You were crazy about him for a while," said Catherine. "Crazy about him!" cried Myrtle incredulously. "Who said I was crazy about him? I never was any more crazy about him than I was about that man there."Here we get a bit of back-story about George and Myrtle’s marriage, like Daisy, Myrtle was crazy about her husband at first but the marriage has since soured. But while Daisy doesn’t have any real desire to leave Tom, here we see Myrtle eager to leave, and very dismissive of her husband. Myrtle seems to suggest that even having her husband wait on her is unacceptable – it’s clear she thinks she is finally headed for bigger and better things.”Generally he was one of these worn-out men, when he wasn't working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road. When any one spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way. He was his wife's man and not his own. “ strangely unshakeable partnership of Tom and Daisy, the co-conspirators, observes that George “was his wife’s man,” “worn out.” Obviously, this situation gets turned on its head when George locks Myrtle up when he discovers the affair, but Michaelis’s observation speaks to instability in the Wilson’s marriage, in

Some of these people look for a more luxurious life, while others just marry for convenience. For instance, Myrtle Wilson holds an extramarital relationship with Tom Buchanan, for he can provide her with luxuries that her own husband cannot afford, and both Tom and Myrtle make Wilson appear like a fool, because "he thinks she goes to see her sister in New York" (Fitzgerald, 30), while Myrtle is actually going to meet with her lover, whom she regrets marrying. Actually, she even expresses inconformity with their marriage, for "The only crazy I [Myrtle] was when I married him [George]. I knew right away I made a mistake." (Fitzgerald, 41)  In addition, carelessness is also present when Daisy's attitude makes Gatsby believe that she will wait for him until he comes back from war. However, she marries Tom "because I [Gatsby] was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!" (Fitzgerald, 137) People who get married for interest, like Daisy did when she got married to Tom, prove the carelessness existing in the 1920's in American society when dealing with relationships. Another proof of carelessness for the person, with whom they hold a relationship with, is Tom and Myrtle's

Her husband, Tom Buchanan, is an abusive, condescending being, however, Tom is a man of money. Tom does not value their relationship at all, he spends his free time with his mistress, Myrtle. From the beginning, Tom was a cheater, on they're wedding night Tom had been caught with another woman, this didn't stop Daisy from marrying Tom Buchanan. Daisy submits to the abuse and neglect because she enjoys the money and materialistic aspects of her life. Throughout the novel, Daisy complains about Tom’s “Woman,” however, in spite of this, she remains to stay loyal to him. Until she meets a man named Jay Gatsby. Daisy had a previous relationship with Mr. Gatsby before she married Tom. Towards the end of the novel, Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship becomes rekindled as Daisy begins to spend her afternoons with him at his colossal mansion. Gatsby falls in love with Daisy’s inexplicable beauty and flirtatious personality so much so that he finds himself doing absolutely anything for her. Daisy sadly manipulates Gatsby for her personal gain, leading him to believe that she’s going to leave her

Gatsby, in his eyes is lacking morals in which he needs to be able to have something with

In the story Myrtle desires a luxurious life. Her desire for a luxurious life is what leads her into the temptation of having an affair with Tom. By her doing this it affects her current marriage with George. This ultimately leads to her death. Myrtle wants a life that is flawless an she wants to be wealthy and happy. She would read magazines which made her want a life like that being rich and famous. She really only wants Tom because he shows that type of lifestyle. When Myrtle married George she was so happy being together with him and basically had all the feelings like you do at love at first sight. Myrtle goes on to say in the story “The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s