Over the years, Gatsby imagines Daisy as the perfect girl that he once knew before the war. Upon his first meeting with her in five years, he appears “pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets” (Fitzgerald 91). Although Gatsby refuses to relinquish his obsessive dream of Daisy as the i

Fitzgerald intentionally does not include a single respectable female character within The Great Gatsby. He gives women the power of manipulation, and portrays them as habitually corrupt. He not only depicts women as corrupt, but also as continually dependent on men. Fitzgerald does not limit his demeaning illustration of women to a particular social class but instead depicts all women as foolish, careless and dishonest regardless of their individual and varying backgrounds.

Myrtle, the wife of a poor garage mechanic George Wilson, belongs to the low class of society. However, with Tom, Myrtle puts on an air of superiority. When entering their New York City apartment, Myrtle “gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in” (33). Fitzgerald portrays Myrtle as a hypocrite because regardless of her true class, she becomes a totally different person i

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