Transformation Of Destruction In The Great Gatsby

A Transformation of Destruction In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Tom, Daisy, Gatsby and Myrtle to illustrate dissatisfaction in order to show a transformation in identity and a longing of the heart. A grad from Princeton, Douglas Horton states “"Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes." Fitzgerald directly portrays this through his characters in a battle to win each other’s hearts. Tom Buchanan is a well-heeled East egger who has known our narrator Nick Carrway since their seminary days. Tom married Nick’s cousin Daisy, but shortly after they were married Tom cheated on his wife with another woman (on the Honeymoon in fact). Currently in the outer state New York he is again cheating on Daisy with Mr. Wilsons Wife Myrtle. Fitzgerald personifies dissatisfaction through Tom by using quotes such as “tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel of his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken -she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara hotel.”(pg.87). He uses quotes like this to show How Tom is Dissatisfied in his Marriage. Daisy on the other hand is a pleasant girl who is both wordless and voiceless in the thought of her …show more content…
She loves Tom more than her husband who she treats and wishes was invisible. Myrtle and Tom secretly meet at an apartment Tom owned and their Myrtle would have parties and assume the role of the perfect “wife”. Fitzgerald articulates the concept of dissatisfaction through Myrtle in at the apartment while Catherine is speaking to Nick it reads “Catherine leaned close to me and whispered in my ear: Neither of them likes the person they’re married to.” “Can’t they?” “Can’t stand them.” (pg. 37) Fitzgerald uses this to emphasize the stress and tension in the affair and in each person’s marriage while at the same time demonstrating the dissatisfaction between