Myrtle Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a story that takes place in 1922 and is narrated by Nick Caraway, a man whose house is next door to Jay Gatsby’s mansion. .Jay Gatsby has a great love for Daisy Buchanan and tries to win her back to only create a grave for himself. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents the idea that shallow and superficial people don’t care how they truly feel when money and wealth are put on the line. In the novel, society and class tend to have a great effect on individuals by making them turn out snobby and in denial of their actions and overlooking the consequences. Myrtle Wilson, mistress of Tom Buchanan, "told that boy about the ice." Raising Her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. ‘These people! You have to keep after them all the time.’ She looked at me and laughed pointlessly... (69-70)". Myrtle thinks that if she acts like a snob that it will make her appear as if she is fancy, but Myrtle is actually showing her true color. For example, how she is a cheater, common, and tasteless. She doesn't know that we see right through her. There was music from my neighbor's house through the

“Is rich with no conscience, moralistic and focuses on moral, exclusionary, racist and above all untrue to any self-conception” pg. 5. Daisy and tom marriage was not based love it was based on the amount of wealth. Tom is unhappy with daisy gives with Gatsby but she used him just as much as she used tom. In chapter 4 is where daisy starts her relationship with Gatsby. Daisy falls back into relationship with Gatsby showing some superficial qualities is because daisy knows that she has some true feel Gatsby. Chapter 7 the relationship between tom and myrtle is clearly superficial. Myrtle is with tom because he has money, and she dreams that he can pull her out from the low life. Tom is staying for the