Nick's "second cousin once removed" was Daisy Buchanan who lived with her husband Tom in East Egg, just "[a]cross the courtesy bay" from West Egg (p. 10). ... Myrtle Wilson's sister, Catherine, declares that Myrtle was "crazy about [George, her husband] for a while" (p. 39). ... The fact that Myrtle's entire opinion about her husband changed when she discovered he borrowed his wedding suit demonstrates how fickle and petty she is. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When Tom tells her he wants to eat supper with a group of strangers at Gatsby's party, rather than with her, because he finds one of the men amusing, she immediately realizes that her husband is pursuing another women. ... Her faithfulness and her distress over Tom's affair with Myrtle, might suggest that she desires emotional intimacy with her husband. This appearance is demonstrated by Jordan's description of Daisy after her honeymoon reinforces this interpretation: I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband. ... After, looking into the history of Tom and Daisy's...

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The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have morally corrupted their lives. Money has created boredom for them. Their ways of perceiving life and their altitudes towards other is vain. But each of them shows off their vanity in different ways. Tom Buchanan, for example, believes that white civilization is going to pieces and will be utterly submerged by the other races. ...

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• Grade Level: High School