In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the male-female relationships are characterized by a loss of control which portray the nature of these relationships as destructive and lonely. From an outsider’s perspective, these relationships seem joyful and full of love but underneath are catastrophic. They create false images for themselves to look good in the public eye and hide from their true feelings.
Daisy and Tom, the happy, wealthy couple, are stuck in a fatal relationship. Daisy and Tom are in love at one point; however, throughout the novel they lose feelings for each other. Tom’s goal in every relationship is domination because when he loses command and control he feels weak. When Tom finds out Myrtle plans on moving west and Daisy no longer loves him, he sees that, “His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control” (Fitzgerald 125). For the first time, Tom is deprived of this
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Although George knows about his wife’s indecencies, it seems as though he had already given up when he says, “I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God...God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing” (159). Since Myrtle has been lying for so long, George has accepted it because deep down he knows he cannot control her. Though Myrtle’s rebellion, George still cares for Myrtle when Fitzgerald explains his suicide, “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete” (162). He killed himself because he could not deal with the pain of losing Myrtle. Normally when other people cheat, they do love the person who cheated on them and it is the same case with George and Myrtle. Their relationship is destructive mentally and physically for both of them, they both died because of