There are many examples of love, or seemingly a lack of it in some relationships, such as Tom and Daisy and the way in which Tom commits adultery with a mistress named Myrtle Wilson who is also committing the act of adultery upon her husband. ... We see Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan's husband, cheating on her with a mistress by the name of Myrtle Wilson who is also married. ... Myrtle Wilson, who is unhappy with her marriage, finds a sort of new life in the arms of Tom who apparently has had various affairs while away in New York during his marriage to Daisy. ... Another character who purs...

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However, The Great Gatsby, F. ... Daisy is evidently personified as the American Dream throughout The Great Gatsby. ... Myrtle Wilson is one of Tom Buchanan's mistresses, a non-elitist woman aspiring to become more than simply Tom's mistress (absolute phrase). ... After this incident, George Wilson goes out to kill Gatsby, as his pool is tainted with a "red circle"(162), and he is successful in his mission; however he dies in the process. ... In other words, the upper class stays in the upper class, and the lower class stays in the lower class, which clearly presented in ...

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