Loyalty and Disloyalty - The Great Gatsby Loyalty and disloyalty in The Great Gatsby determine life or death in the many relationships present, amongst the characters, throughout the story. This major topic creates many dynamics in many different ways that bring excitement, mystery, and drama to every scene. Loyalty in the book really shows how it is the most important factor in any attempt for a healthy relationship. We can see many representations of how loyalty is a major topic throughout the book. Firstly, the so-called romantic relationship between Daisy and Tom shows many different visions of loyalty. While Tom claims to be loyal to his wife, returning home to her every night doesn’t mean that he is. He feels that his obligation is to return to his wife no matter what and to not let anyone (especially Myrtle) talk bad about her. But clearly, Tom is anything but loyal since he is sleeping with another woman that he is also leisurely hiding from Daisy. How could that appear to be loyal at …show more content…
Obviously, Tom and Myrtle had no loyalty towards Wilson when they were having the affair, as well as when Myrtle passed away. Even after Myrtle dies Tom convinces Wilson that he wanted nothing more than to help his friend through a hard time. Tom leads Wilson to believe that both he and his wife were loyal to him; he convinced him to seek revenge through his wife's alleged killer Jay Gatsby. “After Gatsby's death, the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction. So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home” (Fitzgerald 135). Wilson kills Jay and then proceeds to kill himself as if he failed to live when Myrtle died. While a confusing scenario and concept, the loyalty Wilson had towards Myrtle led him to go to the extent of killing, just to fulfill his supposed