The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

As soon as Tom realised what happened, he was on the verge of crying and a was made by him. He was then seen crying heavily in the car driving back home. He went in immediately to see Myrtle. He even asked the policeman what happened and took care of Wilson, Myrtle’s

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

Tom attends the party in many ways to try and ruin Gatsby he is critical about everything like also the decorations the people that are there, the way Gatsby behaves. Anything he can criticize of he does so also he attempts to make a rumor that Gatsby is a bootlegger. And decides after the party that he will really get into Gatsby’s past and try to harm him. And this starts to take a path of destruction. It starts becoming clear that Daisy’s love for Gatsby is false just like the love for Tom and there sadly Gatsby’s love that he thought to find when he asks Daisy to abandon Tom and be at his side. So Tom wants to ruin Gatsby and Gatsby wants Daisy which is a pretty big difference and he is not looking for any paypack like Tom is.

“Terrible place, isn’t it,” said Tom, exchanging a frown with Doctor Eckleburg.Awful.” This shows that Tom thinks that New York is an awful place, but goes for Myrtle. They all went up to Myrtle apartment where they met new faces. Those among the new faces were Myrtle’s sister, and Mr. and Mrs. McKee. They all sit around , whenever Myrtle go to New york to see Tom she tells her husband that she is going to see her sister ,“Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive.”

Tom’s group heads over to Wilson’s place and finds out Wilson knows that his wife is cheating on him. Myrtle also shows up to see Tom with Jordan, who she thinks is his wife. A little while later at a suite, Tom

Finally, Jay Gatsby’s delusions draws more pity for him. Daisy comes from a rich family and chances of her ending up with Gatsby, a poor soldier, is totally unrealistic. Furthermore Gatsby wants Daisy to “ go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’” (105) but Daisy asserts that “ [she] can’t say [she] never loved Tom…It wouldn’t be true.”(126) Jay cannot grasp the present reality that Daisy could not leave Tom permanently, especially when the fruit of their love is already three years of age.

(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.

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

Gatsby’s obsession with his relationship with Daisy makes him blind to the fact that she doesn’t love him alone, and that she cares too much about her social standing to really run away with him. Gatsby believes that he can repeat the past, but he ignores the fact that Daisy chose Tom over him even after she read Gatsby’s

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

Gatsby’s house becomes much quieter, and his parties come to an end because he no longer needed them to attract Daisy.

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

Furthermore, it is necessary to note the car wreck that appeared in the story; it ultimately symbolize and foreshadow the preconception that Gatsby will not be able to achieve his goals and that his story will end similarly to the car. The novel briefly mentioned “…she left a borrowed car out of the rain with the top down, and then lied about it—and suddenly I remembered the story about her that eluded me that night at Daisy’s… The incident and the name had remained together in my mind” (57). On account of the fact that this scene take place after the party, there is a sense of symbolism here. The fancy party represents his determination and hope to advance toward the orgiastic future; he, however, will not be able to reach that far, because

Tom’s character develops in chapter two, through his choice of body language. Near the end of the chapter, it states that Tom had “made a short deft movement,” (Fitzgerald 37) which caused Myrtle’s nose to break. This signifies that Tom does not exactly respect Myrtle, especially not as much as he respects his wife, Daisy. Even though he is ‘cheating’ on Daisy with Myrtle, he thinks that Myrtle is nothing compared to Daisy, which implies that he does not really love Myrtle as much as he ‘loves’ Daisy. This also shows that Tom is controlling character; he is demanding. He even asks the janitor to bring some sandwiches for them. Tom is very used to ordering his