The idea of materialism was held fast by many other characters other then Gatsby. Myrtle Wilson lives with her husband who is stuck in the lower-middle class. She has an affair with Tom which gets her acquainted with the materialistic view of those that Tom is affiliated with. These views draw her in to the social elite, a class in which she was not able to obtain without the affair with Tom. Tom was, in a sense, her mater
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