Myrtle Makes A Personal Statement For The Great Gatsby

The book The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is centered around the roaring 20’s era. The main character is Jay Gatsby who is a shady rich person who lives in West egg in a mansion, and across the way with a green light at the end of the dock is his “so called” girlfriend Daisy( who is already married to a man tom buchanan). This couple and George and Myrtle Wilson convey the theme that love can be in some cases toxic, because it works with the mental and physicality of you. In the book was an affair between Myrtle and Tom buchanan, which these two are already married and in all sense in reality are having affairs. In Chapter 2, Myrtle makes a personal statement of how she feels about her current husband, George Wilson, “ I married

So she had loss feelings with George and made the Love toxic because she mentally doesn’t know who she wants anymore. Next, we have Gatsby and DAisy who both haven’t seen each other in over a five year radius. All their love was from the Green Light on Daisy’s dock which is basically a resemblance of hope and one day to have a goal of being together. But get this, the only reason that Daisy wants Gatsby as her new husband, because she wants a man who is wealthy. A quote from the book explains them of what is mentally and physically detached from each other, “they slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered from.” Another quote of how Gatsby explains why Daisy wants him, when he tells her the truth about her, “Her mouth full of money.” Daisy in 21st century term, is that she is basically playing on a man’s heart strings in sporadic sense. Like she don’t want him, for who he is as a man, but just for all the riches he owns in his pocket. So that's example of how love can be toxic. The book ended with Myrtle struck dead, and Tom to his grieve on Daisy’s affair partner by having George murder