Myrtle Wilson Character Analysis

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These facades can actually work either in a positive or negative way. Specifically; In the novel Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan's mistress, learned that reinventing yourself does not always yield a happy ending. Mrs. Wilson desperately wants to be sophisticated and wealthy. Tom is her key to becoming a part of the upper class. When the New York apartment gathering happened Nick notices “her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment…” (31). Myrtle is unhappy and disappointed with her marriage. For example, when Catherine says at some point she must have been crazy about Mr.Wilson, but Myrtle expresses “The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake” (35). Mrs.Wilson

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