Topic > Business, Nick, and Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Nick is the narrative reader in The Great Gatsby. Gatz was a poor man who changes his name to Gatsby. Tom was a cheater and was unfaithful to Daisy. Daisy was a flirt and she was rich. Myrtle is a poor woman who lives above her and her husband's workshop. Myrtle would let Tom push her around because he was a rich man and let Myrtle forget that she was poor. “He never loved you, you heard him crying. She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me (Fitzgerald 139).” Tom is married to Daisy (Lisca). Even though Daisy is marrying Tom, Daisy has feelings for Gatsby (Lisca). Tom and Daisy's relationship is wrong because they are married. People might say that Tom and Daisy don't love each other. When a week had passed since their honeymoon, Tom and a girl had an accident and the girl broke her arm and she was a maid at the hotel where Tom and Daisy spent their honeymoon (Lisca). Daisy was remembering a time in their marriage when she thought Tom had collapsed on the floor but it was someone else (Fitzgerald 136). Daisy knows that Tom is cheating on her with Myrtle; Tom has a lover named Myrtle (Hays, "Oxymoron"). Tom sees a girl named Myrtle Wilson. When Nick follows Tom to New York and sees Tom, he picks up Myrtle, who is Tom's lover (Hays, “Oxymoron”). Tom told Myrtle to sit somewhere else because he didn't want people to think he was cheating on Daisy (Lisca). Myrtle is married to George Wilson, owner of Wilson's gas station. When Nick saw him, Tom goes to George Wilson's garage to see Myrtle (Fitzgerald 28). Mr. Wilson is unaware that Myrtle is cheating on him with Tom. George owns a shabby apartment that highlights Tom and Myrtle's relationship alongside the splendor of Gatsby's (Doreski) home. That... middle of the paper... Fitzgerald. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1995. 155-169. Rpt. in Children's Literature Review. Ed. Jelena Kristovic. vol. 176. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014.Schreier, Benjamin. "The Second Act of Desire: 'Race' and the Cynical Americanism of the Great Gatsby." Twentieth Century Literature 53.2 (Summer 2007): 153-181. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. vol. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literary Resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014.Tolmatchoff, VM "The Metaphor of History in the Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald." Russian eyes on American literature. Ed. Sergei Chakovsky and M. Thomas Inge. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992. 126-141. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. vol. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literary Resources from Gale. Network. January 14. 2014.