The Great Gatsby Myrtle Relationship

In the apartment, she turns to her sister in a pompous tone “I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet and when she gave me the bill you’d of thought she had my appendicitis out’” (31) Myrtle tells her sister, even though appendicitis is a disease, not the organ that is removed. Despite the fact that she herself is married to a mechanic and is a mistress, which are in no means prestigious positions, she talks in a very condescending manner towards her sister, making it sound like she’s had decades more of the higher-life experience. Myrtle also talks about her supposed wealth when “she turned to Mrs. McKee and the room rang full of her artificial laughter. ‘My dear’ she cried, ‘I’m going to give you this dress as soon as I’m through with it. I’ve got to get another one tomorrow. I’m going to make a list of all the things I’ve got to get. A massage and a wave, and a collar for the dog, and one of those cute little ash-trays where you touch a spring, and a wreath with a black silk bow for mother’s grave that’ll last all summer. I got to write down a list so I won’t forget all the things I got to do’”(36). She talks about money like it is no big deal and a common topic even though it’s the exact opposite. By listing out all of the things that she has to buy, it makes her seem richer and of higher maintenance, even though she really can’t afford any of that. She even offers to give up what she is making out to be a very expensive dress like it’s no big deal. She makes it sound like all of Tom’s money is her own. Likewise, she is patronizing when she refers to her husband and says “‘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). She thinks she’s so much better than her husband even though she lives in a

The 1920’s was an era filled with amazing art including everything from music and literature. During this time F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. This book tells a tragic story about love, scandal, and betrayal. Two prominent characters in this story are Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. They both have a relationship with Tom Buchanan, a rich and haughty man. Daisy and Myrtle are very different from each other in many ways but share one thing in common. In this amazing American tale, we see these two characters contrasting qualities emerge.

Both Myrtle and Daisy are portrayed as inferior through their continued isolation throughout the novel. Firstly, Myrtle is emotionally isolated in her relationship with George Wilson. This can be evidenced when she expresses that “he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”(37). This quotation is said by Myrtle, to her sister Catherine, while at Tom’s apartment. Myrtle is explaining her disappointment in herself for marrying Wilson, due to his extreme poverty, and her subsequent unhappiness in her marriage. Myrtle’s disdain for her husband clearly demonstrates her feelings of isolation in her relationship, and her lack of emotional intimacy. Due to the fact that emotional isolation can often cause feelings of desperation or lead to unhealthy relationships,

Even though the 1920s is the era of women’s rights, women are still treated poorly. Even woman in the middle class are looked at with expectations. In the article it stated, “she concludes that although there were changes in women’s lives, their achievements were, limited, with ‘progress in some spheres… matched by disappointment and defeat in others’” (Hannam 64). This relates to Myrtles situation because even though she is not in the eyes of society she is expected to obey her husband and do as she is told. Myrtle does not always do as she is told around her husband, George Wilson. She is not the perfect female with him. She actually acts a little more masculine and aggressive to show she is not weak, but around her lover, Tom Buchanan, she becomes a more weak and obedient female. That would be approved by society if they were actually married. She changes how she conforms to the expectations of society depending on who she is around. She really does not control her own life like Jordan, but she also is not forced by society to do something she does not want to do like

She is hoping to depend on Tom, that he will change her life around for her. She is a child with to big of an ego to see that not everything will fall into the path she wants it

After Myrtle leaves to go to New York her personality seems to take somewhat of a turn, she starts making purchases with Tom's money and you can see the shift. This reveals that Myrtle is different when money is around her, she can live the lavish lifestyle she wants to live. Once at the apartment her actual true colors started showing through “ Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume sometime before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.” The “Change” was not only the dress that Myrtle was wearing, but her persona changed as well, the “Costume” was just Myrtle trying to show off what she had and the person she was trying to

Myrtle yearned to be a part of a higher social class. Her husband George owned a run-down garage. Without a large income she can’t live a life of luxury. Her lust for a higher social class actually consequently ended in her death. Her husband George knew about her infidelity and was not happy about it.

Myrtle is Tom's mistress, which allows her play the role of a well educated wealthy woman. Myrtle is deceptive and untrustworthy because she is married, and is having a secret affair with Tom buchanan. The very first time we meet her in the book “she smiled slowly and, walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye”(26). By having an affair with Tom she is betraying her husband, and she seems to have no remorse about it. Myrtle is described as being “ faintly stout, but she carries her surplus flesh sensuously as some woman can. Her face, [...] contained no facet or glean of beauty”(25). From her physical description the reader can infer that she is not very nice and standoffish. She treats

Myrtle illustrates this as she wants nothing more than to be of a higher social status. Her affair with Tom allows her to have a taste of what a life of wealth is, and she undergoes a change when surrounded by the finer things life with Tom offers. Myrtle’s persona is altered when she slips into something as simple as a new dress, illustrating that her “intense vitality that had been so remarkable” when she is living her regular life is “converted into impressive hauteur” (Fitzgerald 56). As she is so desperate to escape the impoverished life she is accustomed to, Myrtle does her best to play the part of a posh woman when around Tom. Myrtle seems awkward and disrespectful when she is acting like she belongs in Tom’s world, which makes it apparent that she will never fit in the way she wishes to. Her dream blinds her to her own foolishness, and Myrtle begins to believe that Tom truly loves her. Her infatuation causes her to become delusional and believe Tom will leave Daisy for her. In reality, this would never happen as Myrtle is from a very low social and financial status. Tom is using Myrtle, and he illustrates how disposable she is to him when he “[breaks] her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 127). Myrtle is willing to take the abuse that she is presented with if it means that she will be able to live a life of wealth. Her obsession with materialistic items and money

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)

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

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

The Wilsons, along with all party goers of the novel, suffers Fitzgerald's criticism of the love the most. As a part of the lower class, these people chase money like crazy; all relationships whether affectionate or friendships form on a basis of money. For example, Myrtle’s relationship revolves around Tom’s money. Fitzgerald alludes to the Wizard of Oz, with Tom representing Myrtle's yellow brick road away from her poor life. At Tom’s hotel party, Myrtle, her sister Catherine, and Mr. McKee all try to act rich. Myrtle changes her dress and with this, her attitude at the small party, leading to a violent Tom and a broken Myrtle. At both Tom’s party and Gatsby’s party, guests drink in excess to rid their problems and to get away from their

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 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)