Myrtle In The Great Gatsby

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In an attempt to escape from the controlling mass of a monster that her husband, Wilson had become, Myrtle sprinted out of their home. Running so endlessly, her feet had begun to give as she longed for more steps to take, not stopping. Quickening the pace she entered the road, at afar there roamed Jay Gatsby and his affaire Daisy, joyriding his yellow colored Rolls-Royce speeding down the road. As quick as the sound of light, the thought of Tom being present in the vehicle made Myrtle joyous to the fact that her significant other was there to rescue her, that had not been the case. Waving her chilling fingers in a rapid manner, Myrtle had managed to screech out the words of.. “Oh my love Thomas, I cannot grasp the reason of you being here to save me!”, yelling Myrtle, dodging the oncoming cars. Meanwhile, the onlookers of this frantic scene had been quietly whispering to each other of how polished and waxed Gatsby’s car had appeared to their eyes. They had also been onlooking the intoxication of a woman that Myrtle had morphed into, franctly weeping, unbeknownst that she was in for a dear surprise. The automobile fastly approaching, in her aged vision she realizes that it was not who she thought it was. A female seemed to be seated in the driver’s seat, with a tan, colored skin man with what appeared to be short, …show more content…
The two, park their vehicle alongside the gate, climbing over the ten foot tall wall that separated those from the outside, to those who can move on forwards towards the house itself. Myrtle and Wilson, now climb over the enclosement and approach a small, green colored bush that sat at the edge of Gatsby’s property. Crouching in the bush, the nerves of the couple began to be set on fire as they realized that this was going to more difficult than what one could

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