... Tom's affair, which makes her rather blunt. Myrtle Wilson is portrayed to be foolish and adulterous. Myrtle is married to George Wilson which owns a car garage in The Valley of Ashes. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe. (Fitzgerald 34) She married George because she thought he would be different than what he actually ... road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust " (Fitzgerald 131) She tried hard to achieve the American Dream, but in the end she belonged in The Valley of Ashes and that is where she died. In The Great Gatsby all the wo...

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