Myrtle Wilson In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thirdly, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel titled The Great Gatsby follows the deuteragonist called Myrtle Wilson as she commits deadly sins of wrath and greed and lust. According to Oxford Online Dictionary, “deuteragonist” is defined as “The person second in importance to the protagonist in a drama”(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com). In other words, a deuteragonist is the secondary main character who is the second most important character in a novel. Myrtle is the wife of George Wilson but also has an affair with Tom. She is a foil to Daisy Buchanan who is a social climber. The only thing he cares about is money and status. The first example is the presence of her greed. The first time that she met Tom on the train as she describes:

I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I did not even know I wasn't getting into a subway train. All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever, you can't live forever”(Fitzgerald 36). It is odd to go with a man without knowing his name and job. This illustrates that Myrtle sees his clothing and then judges him as a wealthy man. That is the reason that she was so excited to go into a taxi with him. She was so excited that a wealthy man wants to have an affair with her, which makes her have a better life and much more money. When Nick, Tom, and Myrtle go to New York, she buys some cold cream and a small flask of perfume and she said: “I want to get one of those dogs, I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have--a dog”(Fitzgerald

She is desperate to have a wealthy and strong to take care of her. Myrtle is seeking of sex desire, which makes her satisfied without considering about the consequence of the vulgar behaviour, her husband may realize her adultery. The third example is the presence of her envy. Envy is that a person wants what other people else have and resenting them for having it. Nick, Tom, and Jordan stop at Wilson’s garage, Myrtle considers Jordan as Tom’s wife and he stays with his wife all the time, so Tom does not care about her anymore. Nick describes Myrtle on page 125 that: “I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife”(Fitzgerald). She was green with envy and this influence her behaviour. Thus, she can not act rationally. As a consequence, she ran straight to the road and towards Gatsby whom she thought was Tom. The car hit her and she dead for her irrational behaviour. She is eager to be an Upper Class, but it is impossible since she corrupts moral and turns to a jealous monster. She is so afraid that Tom does not want her anymore and she lost the association with high-class