It has been said that "rich girls don't marry poor boys. Scott Fitzgerald represents this statement through three women. The story is about love and deception between three girls. In the novel, Daisy loves Jay Gatsby but stays with her husband Tom Buchannan, because of the security he can offer her. Myrtle Wilson cheated on her husband and in the meantime did not treat him well. Jordan Baker is a woman who lies and is also very independent in life and would prefer not to have a man in her life. Women often have many reasons for loving and staying with the different men in their lives. Daisy abuses the men in her life in an emotional way, and needs security more than love, Myrtle mistreats her husband, and is motivated by money, and Jordan lies to men, and needs acknowledgement for her golfing.
Women often treat the men in their lives in many different ways. The women in the novel all treated their men in one common way. They really did not care about their emotional well being. Jordan Baker does not have a husband in her life. She chooses to be independent, but when she is with men, she lies to them. In a golf tournament once, she lied about where her ball had been, which is not a good sign because it shows how she might treat her husband. Daisy loves her men but plays around with their emotions. She is in love with Gatsby but would prefer to be with Tom because of the security that he can offer her. Gatsby could only offer her money, which was said to be made in an illegal way. She told Gatsby repeatedly that she loved him but still in the end preferred to be with Tom. She destroyed people's lives and then left the mess with them to clean up. Myrtle treats her husband as if he is less than she is. In the novel, when Tom is at her house she tells her husband to, "Get some chairs, why don't you, so somebody can sit down."" (Fitzgerald 30). This shows that he is not very valuable to her and that Myrtle feels she has the free will to treat him badly.