Examples Of Marriage In The Great Gatsby

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, marriage is portrayed as just a lighthearted decision that the characters in the novel make. This textual evidence from the novel gives the reader proof that the whole idea of marriage and love is just a delusion and is not important to the characters. The marriages between Tom and Daisy, Myrtle and Wilson, and The McKee’s are certainly different circumstances, but the three marriages in the novel show just how marriage in the 1920s in America was viewed. Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s marriage is the most predominate one in the novel. In the beginning of the novel the reader gets a glimpse of how Tom and Daisy’s marriage is crumbling at its core. Tom at the beginning of the novel takes the narrator Nick to his mistress’ Myrtle Wilson’s apartment. While Tom is indulging himself with the mixture of alcohol and his mistress, Myrtle mentions Tom’s wife Daisy. This makes Tom furious as textual evidence provides the reader about how furious he was “I’ll say it whenever I want to!” “Daisy!” “Dai- Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (The Great Gatsby 37). This incident

Whether or not Daisy had true love with Tom, she was in fact in love with all the material items he could provide her with. Myrtle And George Wilson’s marriage was doomed from the very beginning of their marriage because of Myrtle being unsatisfied with her lifestyle. Myrtle was not considered in a high social class, but she wanted to be more than she wanted love. Mrs. McKee is trying to become part of the social elites, and that causes her too think that she is above everyone on her way to the top. So the major question from the novel concerning marriage and love is, were the couples who were married really in love? Maybe however it was God making an example of what the pursuit of processions does to