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Essay / Affairs, Nick and Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Nick is the narrative reader in The Great Gatsby. Gatz was a poor person who changed his name to Gatsby. Tom was a cheater and unfaithful to Daisy. Daisy was a flirtatious and wealthy woman. Myrtle is a poor woman who lived out of her and her husband's garage. Myrtle would let Tom push her around because he was a rich man, which would allow Myrtle to forget that she was poor. “She never loved you,” you hear him cry. She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me (Fitzgerald 139).” Tom is married to Daisy (Lisca). Even though Daisy marries Tom, Daisy has feelings for Gatsby (Lisca). Tom and Daisy's relationship is bad because they are married. People can tell that Tom and Daisy don't like each other. A week after their honeymoon, Tom and a girl had an accident and the girl broke her arm and was a maid at the hotel where Tom and Daisy spent their honeymoon (Lisca). Daisy remembered a moment at their wedding when she thought Tom was falling to the floor but it was someone else (Fitzgerald 136). Daisy knows that Tom is cheating on her with Myrtle; Tom has a mistress named Myrtle (Hays, “Oxymoron”). Tom sees a girl named Myrtle Wilson. When Nick followed Tom to New York and saw Tom, get Myrtle, who is Tom's mistress (Hays, "Oxymoron"). Tom told Myrtle to sit in another seat because he didn't want people to think he was cheating on Daisy (Lisca). Myrtle is married to George Wilson, owner of the Wilson Gas Station. When Nick saw him, Tom went to George Wilson's garage to see Myrtle (Fitzgerald 28). Mr. Wilson doesn't know that Myrtle is cheating on him with Tom. George has a shabby apartment that highlights Tom and Myrtle's affair as well as the splendor of Gatsby's (Doreski) house. What...... middle of paper......Fitzgerald. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1995. 155-169. Rep. in Youth Literature Review. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Flight. 176. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014. Schreier, Benjamin. “Second Act of Desire: “Race” and the Cynical Americanism of the Great Gatsby. » Twentieth Century Literature 53.2 (Summer 2007): 153-181. Rep. in 20th century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Flight. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014. Tolmatchoff, VM “The Metaphor of History in the Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Russian eyes on American literature. Ed. Sergei Chakovsky and Mr. Thomas Inge. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992. 126-141. Rep. in 20th century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Flight. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14. 2014.