In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man named Jay Gatsby completely changes his whole life for his long lost love Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to Tom who is an extremely wealthy polo player. Jordan is a professional golf player and is not married, but goes on some dates with Nick. Myrtle is married to a not so wealthy mechanic named George. In the novel Great Gatsby three major women, Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle, are treated by men and treat men different ways.
Daisy is treated many different ways throughout the novel. Although she treats men similarly . At the beginning of the story we find out that that Daisy is not being treated well, Tom has been cheating on her with Myrtle’’Tom’s got some woman in New York’’(p15 fitzgerald),Jordan tells Nick this when Tom got a telephone call from that woman. Moreover, when Tom and Gatsby were arguing in the apartment they treated her like a possession or an item. On the other hand, Gatsby does everything for her because she is his everything. Daisy was born into money so she does not want to marry a man that is not wealthy. Gatsby knew this when he said,´´Her voice is full of money´´(p120 fitzgerald), this shocked Nick because he had been trying to figure out her voice. When Tom was talking about his book, Rise of Colored
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She gets anything she wants from Tom, ´´Here´s your money. Go buy ten more dogs with it.´´(p28 fitzgerald), Tom tells Myrtle's this we she says she wants a dog. On the other hand, later in the party in the apartment Tom smacks her in the face for yelling Daisy. At the end of the book she is being beat by George because he found out she was cheating on him. Like Daisy, Myrtle is kind of mean to her husband as well. She is very demanding to George when she says, ´´Get some chairs, why don't you, so somebody can sit down.´´(p26