“Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (pg.5). In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald we are introduced to characters by the narrator Nick Carroway. The Great Gatsby is a book about hopes and dreams that no one can really live up to. Daisy Buchanan is a rich, blonde short hair woman in her mid-twenties full with laughter and very sweet. Daisy is a fool, she has one daughter and she is married. Myrtle Wilson in her mid-thirties married, jealous and not quite rich. Myrtle and Daisy are similar in some ways but are very different too. They have different companions, homes, parties and ways. Daisy and Myrtle companions are totally different …show more content…
Daisy lives in East Egg of Long Island. The narrator Nick says “Their house was very more elaborated then I thought, a cheerful red and white Georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay” (pg.11). The Land is a quarter of a mile, with French windows. Myrtle lived in the valley of ashes in a Garage with an apartment. The apartment was small and above the garage. The garage is old full with dust cars and don’t get a lot of business. Tom bought her an apartment in the west hundreds of New York. The apartment was on the top floor with a small living room, bedroom, bathroom, and dining room. Daisy and Myrtle are different in many ways but both had …show more content…
Daisy is young with a charming laugh, and elegant ways. Daisy’s says “Sophisticated god I’m so sophisticated” (pg.22). They also reads The Colored Empire. She wears rippling fluttering white dresses that are expensive. Gatsby once said “Her voice is full of money” (pg.127). Myrtle reads “Simon Call Peter” and “Town Talle”. Myrtle wore vibrant colors, and dark make up. She changed dresses a lot as if she was rich. Fitzgerald states that “with influence of the dress her personality also undergone a change” (pg.35). She pretends that she is rich and she says about her husband “I thought he knew something about breed but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (pg. 39) she also told the apartment boy about the ice he didn’t do it so she says “These people you have to keep after them all the time” (pg.36). When Myrtle is with tom she feels that she is rich. Myrtle and Daisy come from different back grounds but had similar