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Myrtle In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes the characterization of Myrtle and Gatsby to shatter the concept of living the American Dream. Fitzgerald describes Myrtle as a brave woman who is also Tom Buchanan’s mistress. Tom and Daisy were driving home from Gatsby’s house when Daisy “was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive-and this women rushed out at us just as were were passing a car coming the other way” (143). Fitzgerald shatters the concept of living the American Dream because Myrtle got hit by the car Daisy was driving. Tom and Daisy were married therefore since Myrtle was Tom’s mistress, Daisy was not happy about that. Daisy hitting Myrtle was an accident but it shows how living the american dream is not
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