The Great Gatsby How the American dream destroyed Myrtle
The Great Gatsby could be described as a book about the complicated lives of aimless people. The character Myrtle was so obsessed with money and reaching the American dream that it ended up destroying her. Through wrecking her marriage, staying in anabusive relationship and overall greed for money, her death was inevitable.
Myrtle was extremely greedy and through coveting the rich began to destroy her marriage. She spoke to her friends telling them; " I only married him (Wilson) because I thought he was a gentleman". This escalated until she made snide remarks towards how much money her husband was earning. She stated; "He
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