How Is Daisy Untruthful In The Great Gatsby

In the Great Gatsby, we meet many characters, who live untruthful lives and unfaithful marriages. Tom Buchanan is a very mischievous man and is up to secret affairs with his “woman in New York”, Myrtle Wilson, a wife to George Wilson. Daisy Buchanan, Tom’s wife, has suspicious about said affair but her husband has not been truthful in telling her about it. Where as we come to find later in the book Daisy isn't so open to her affairs with a man named Jay Gatsby, which began to develop in the middle of the novel. Tom comes to find the truth about Daisy and Gatsby, thus confronting both of them. The exposed affairs have lethal effects to the character’s lives and marriages. The deceitful and untruthful lies of Daisy, Tom and Myrtle, help accurately

portray Fitzgerald's view that untruthful marriages are destructive.
Most marriages dont end because of infidelity but for seventeen percent of marriages end in divorce because of a cheating partner.

I grew up with divorced parents whose marriage ended because of lies and an affair. The lies built on top of each other, one lie cover another and another and another. Both partners untruthful about what they knew or what they were doing. Eventually, the lies and unfaithfulness destroyed my parents marriage and damaging further relationships among family members. Just as the lies of Daisy, Tom, and Myrtle within their marriages have a downfall effect on the characters in the book. With Myrtle’s death, caused by Daisy who was so stressed out to find that her husband had discovered her affair with another man, she didn't see Myrtle and she drove back into town. Daisy’s actions ultimately killed Myrtle and furthermore caused destructive actions of Myrtle's husband, Wilson, who then shot and killed Gatsby as revenge. The lies caused the collapse of the characters relationships just as it does in real

life.
Even celebrity marriages are ruined by cheating and lying of a partner.

A very commonly known relationship that was ended by a cheating spouse is, Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren. Tiger is a very sucessful pro golfer and Elin was once a model; and are parents to two children. As a cheating scandal hit newsstands about Tiger Woods and his affairs with another woman. He denied an accusations of the affair with Rachel Uchitel. Elin later came to find, by snooping through his phone, that Tiger was lying to her and the affair was true. The downfall of their marriage, had begun between the two as Elin had lashed out and started yelling . Tiger had gotten into an accident leaving his house during an argument with his wife. He was treated and emitted into rehab; Elin eventually found out about many other affairs and divorced Tiger. The marriage of the celebrity couple fell to pieces after the truth came out about Tiger’s unfaithfulness to his wife and family. The lies destroyed the marriage between them and ruined relationships with his young children. Dishonesty between partners have very destructive effects and cause many marriages to crumble and relationships to have permanent

damage.
Crumbling marriages don't always result from an unfaithful spouse. It's usually when trust is broken between partners. Trust is fragile and the more lies that build up the weaker the trust gets. Lies can start to be simple and then as time goes on they progress and the couples trust in eachother gets weaker and weaker, resulting in the two being questionable and suspicious of the other. The downfall of trust, most, if not all the time, result in disputes that cause the couple to lose sight of what marriage really means. I'm not saying marriages cannot have arguments and still able to be happy, but marriages with constant disagreements and lies does the opposite and makes the relationship to come apart at the seams. Just as, Daisy and Tom’s relationship did; they both lied to each other multiple times which resulted in disagreements between the two of them and caused them to fall out of love with each other. Lying in relationships has harming effects and ruins the trust between two people and causes the relationship to lose passion.
Marriage is all about trusting each other and once trust is broken it's hard to get it back; it's even harder to gain trust back when it’s continuously broken. Trust is the most important thing in all relationships, it’s what holds it together, so when the trust is broken the relationship falls and breaks. Broken trust can be destructive to relationships causing permanent, irreversible damage. Fitzgerald shows just how destructive lying and deceitful actions can be through the use of his characters.