9/11 Short Stories

“That wasn’t you right?” I whisper in Bryson's ear. All it earns me is a blank stare

Myrtle Wilson: At least you didn’t marry him. I married him. And that's the difference between your case and mine. I thought he was a gentleman, but I was completely wrong.

“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.”

When she arrives at the apartment, she throws a “regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood” as if she belonged there all her life. She invites people over in order to create a fancy lifestyle that mirrors the rich “dinner party” lifestyle. Myrtle not only changed her “costume” again, but also her personality. The use of “costume” illustrates that she does not belong in it, and that seems like a foreign object on her body. When Mrs. McKee compliments her dress, Myrtle says that “[she] slips it on when [she] doesn’t care what [she] looks like.” Her insecurity and self-consciousness forces her to fabricate the lie that it is just a normality for her to be so beautiful and classy. She continues on to scold the “lower orders” when she herself is the lower class. Additionally, Myrtle easily accepts the lie that Daisy is Catholic, which demonstrates the power that Tom has over her, and that the love that she has for him is not reciprocated. Myrtle believes that she is superior to where she is originally from, especially her husband, whom she does not care

The man caught his wife cheating but the thing that got to him wasn't the sex it was rather fact that myrtle had managed to create

“We brought you here because Anna is studying you in class, and needs to ask you some questions .” Paisley said with a smile. “

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

Next, when Myrtle sees that she can live the more luxurious life she always wanted she has an affair with Tom. Myrtle is a woman living in the slums of the city, unhappy with her marriage, and feels her husband cannot provide the lifestyle she wants. When Myrtle is having guest over at her and Tom’s apartment, they discussion Myrtle's marriage, to which she states; “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he was not fit to lick my shoe...The only crazy I was was when I married him, I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never even

It had gone quiet. We goted into Tom’s car and headed to the house. On the way to the house we had ran into a fighting scene. The women I meet a couple days ago, Myrtle was now

finds the expensive dog collar. Myrtle “trie[s] to tell [him] something funny about it, but [he]

“Sorry I distracted you.” Sandra confessed, “I was going to tell you that he was talking to you.”

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

We stopped at the gas station and Wilson was no longer to be found. Tom rushed out and roared at the door and then we heard Myrtle screaming at her sick husband “No! I will not go with you!” Tom broke down the door and Jordan and I watched dumbfoundedly, as we did not know what to do with ourselves, but what watch. We heard a crash and Tom came out with Myrtle and we took her to the apartments that Tom bought them. Jordan decided to mention where Daisy and Gatsby were and Tom recollected himself and abruptly left Myrtle and promised her that he would go back for her.

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.

“Here I am, minding my own business, and someone thinks it’s funny to throw a book at me. . . .” (229-230) In short, Myrtle finds a way to fight back when the patriarchy tries to invade the protection their moveable gender boundaries provide once more. If they are going to press into her safe space, the one place the patriarchy gave her to be vulnerable, Myrtle will use her vulnerability to push them back out.