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Essay / Women's Disillusionment in The Great Gatsby - 1166
While she, Tom and Nick are in the car, she spontaneously decides that she wants Tom to buy her a "police dog", so he buys her what the seller calls a police dog without questioning it (Fitzgerald 27). Therefore, this shows that Myrtles craves the materialistic things that come with money. On the other hand, at her party, she talks about how marrying her husband was a mistake and implies that it was because of her lack of money. “I knew straight away that I had made a mistake. He borrowed someone’s best suit to get married” (Fitzgerald 35). We see here that she thinks little of George, her husband, and she almost shows a feeling of disgust for him. She clearly misses her husband (Wershoven). In the novel, she mentions how she loved George, but the love is long gone. Therefore, she sleeps with Tom and he buys her everything she wants. This gives her the role of the woman who “sells herself” (Weshoven). Myrtle also gets the title of Ultimate Betrayal, which represents the difference between high class and low class women (Wershoven). Of all the adulterers featured in the novel, Myrtle is the only one who does not have a partner who is also having an affair. George was faithful to Myrtle, which gave him an air of infidelity that was more avoided; epic when she