The Relationship Between Myrtle And Mr Wilson In The Great Gatsby

In room 303 we have been studying many poems from Doris Lessing. Doris was born in in Persia and now lives in Iran. She came from a large family of five. She shares her own experiences when she writes and that is what makes her unique. Her talent for writing came from a variety of her experiences. One poem she wrote called “No Witchcraft for sale” was very interesting. It had three important messages and those messages are the poisonous snake is dangerous, stay loyal, and amazing things can happen.

“She was in her middle thirties and faintly stout but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can...She smiled slowly and walked through her husband as if he were a ghost.” (Fitzgerald ) Myrtle Wilson, married to George Wilson, plays Tom Buchanan’s mistress in the novel The Great Gatsby. Myrtle is apart of the lower social class in this novel. Her goal is the achive the East Egg status through Tom Buchanan as well as her personality and social behavior. The song I have chosen, in which I believe best represents Myrtle Wilson is Gold Digger by Kanye West.

On Thursday last week, two murders have taken place. Myrtle Wilson, wife to a small garage owner, was hit and killed instantly by a speeding car two evenings ago. She had run out into the middle of the street for unknown reasons when the ‘death car’ hit her. The car was allegedly a yellow or green color and was guessed to be traveling around 40 miles per hour when it hit Myrtle. This car was coming from New York; it swerved a little but did not stop when passing

Fitzgerald characterizes the character Myrtle Wilson as desperate, desiring of riches and social success. Nick’s initial impression is focused on her “thickish figure” and her “face [that] contained no facet or gleam of beauty” which demonstrates her lack of personality and intelligence. When she goes out with Tom to New York, she dons a classy muslin (high grade fabric) dress, “which stretched tight over her rather wide hips.” Myrtle does not fit with the upper class, no matter how hard she tries to look sophisticated. The taxi she choses to ride is “lavender- colored with gray upholstery” which mirrors the grayness in the valley of ashes where she lives, demonstrating the inability for her to escape her own social class. Her desire to get

The use of masks in The Great Gatsby is specifically used with different characters because they hiding who they truly are in order to be accepted.

"No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence." (Pinterest) Emotions are always with people. The way people react to certain things is all based on emotions. These emotions can often lead to violent or harmful actions. In The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Gatsby uses his money to get Daisy's attention to satisfy his desire.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the two central women presented are Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. These two women, although different, have similar personalities. Throughout the novel, there are instances in which the reader feels bad for and dislikes both Daisy and Myrtle. These two women portray that wealth is better than everything else, and they both base their lives on it. Also the novel shows the hardships and difficulties they have in their marriages. They are never satisfied with what they have, and are always longing for more.

Many of the occurrences in The Great Gatsby produced far-reaching effects for several of the characters.  Of these occurrences, one of the most influential and important incidents was the death of Myrtle Wilson.  While her life and death greatly affected the lives of all of the main and supporting characters, her death had a very significant effect on the lives of Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby.

Myrtle Wilson is the second major character in The Great Gatsby. She is about 30 years old and is “faintly stout but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some woman can” (The Great Gatsby: Character). Myrtle is married to George Wilson, also a mistress to Tom Buchanan. She is not happy with her marriage nor her lifestyle. Myrtle is part of the lower class of society making her poor. With them being poor they end up living in their car garage. George seemed like a gentleman and that is why Myrtle married him, but turns out that he wasn’t. Tom is part the upper class of society which attracts Myrtle to him. They spend a lot of time in the city together. She has an excuse to tell George that she is visiting her sister. George is getting a suspicion that Myrtle is up to no good, and locks her up in a closet. Myrtle being upset, notices a yellow car thinking it was Tom because she noticed him driving it earlier, she runs to the car to get away from George

“Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby is an example of the poor. Myrtle is Tom’s lover who is desperately trying to change her life as the lower class. Myrtle is not found with the class she was born into. She insists that she married beneath her, and tries to talk about the lower orders— as if she is not 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’". Unfortunately for her, she chooses to be Tom’s lover who treats her as a merely object.

These two men have these dreams all planned out yet neither one of them ever knew that they would destroy their dreams themselves and die from it in consequence. Lennie’s own actions was the cause of his death, if Lennie was not mentally handicapped and had not killed Curley’s wife by accident he may not have died, nevertheless such as Rascoe says, it was not his fault and he cannot control what h does not understand. “For Lennie’s condition is an inimical and destructive force. It is a condition he is not responsible for. It is something he cannot help.”

For this addiction assignment I attended meeting run by the oldest Alcoholics Anonymous group in Auburn, Maine. This group, the Auburn Serenity Group, was founded in 1959. I found this information on their page http://www.csoaamaine.org/groups/5/auburnserenity.htm when researching meeting information. I attended on Wednesday night (10/8/14) at St. Philips Church on Turner Road in Auburn. The meeting was chaired by a man named Paul.

In the lower class society, The Great Gatsby displays unhappiness in a number of ways and at a variety of extents, this is displayed though the eyes of Myrtle Wilson. Unhappy in her marriage and her position on the social hierarchy. George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband, gave an impressionable first encounter; this lead Myrtle to believe he was true gentleman worthy of her love and affection. She comes to find he is nothing short of

Myrtle and Gatsby both share the same goal of acquiring money and being accepted into the Old Money crowd. Myrtle Wilson thinks that she is meant to belong in the rich crowd and that she is above the poor crowd. “‘I told that boy about the ice.’ Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders” (32). Myrtle looks down on the lower class, even though she if part of the lower class herself, because she thinks that she is above them. She thinks that she should be part of the upper class so she uses Tom Buchanan to achieve that goal. Furthermore, Gatsby tries to be accepted into the Old Money crowd so that Daisy will accept him into her life. “‘Why don’t you- why don’t you stay for supper? I wouldn’t be

Gatsby then took the initiative to buy a new dress, witch is very expensive for the time period. On the other end of the scale there is Wilson who is poor and owns a gas station yet is treated with disrespect because of his lack of money. “…He wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (34). Myrtle was talking about her husband who is poor and therefore does not deserve her love. This is the way Fitzgerald depicts the social classes in The Great Gatsby.