What Does Myrtle Represent In The Great Gatsby

The great Gatsby represents a society in the district of west egg as wealthy people who have made their wealth based on social connections who already display wealth. The extravagant parties thrown every Saturday night by Jay Gatsby shows how people just attend for the social connections pursuing wealth and status that could help them achieve their lifestyle goals.
For example, Myrtle is used as a metaphor because her affair with tom is a comparison to daisy's affair with Gatsby and to Gatsby his American dream is living his hope and dreams with daisy as throughout the story he tries to show off his wealth he didn’t have at the time when there younger. Meaning it could be the same thing myrtle is trying to pursue with tom because she wasn’t …show more content…
For example, Nick starts to act differently because he is the type of person to be reserved and to himself but at the party all the characters get him into drinking and he starts to behave like everyone else in the party and acts outrageously unlike himself. Which consists of making out with random women which unlike the way he is and he acted at home. As The characters start partying, drinking and all having a good time it shows they all share a common interest. Some of the characteristics shown within the characters are both different and similar. For instance, both Gatsby and myrtle hope to achieve their goals with their significant other so they could achieve everything they've ever wanted. Daisy’s actions represent that she ever wanted to marry Tom at all and realizes that her social and economic status will always be among the filthy rich.
As for nick, he basically tried to say that he felt Gatsby was a despicable person because of his wealth but didn’t judge him as he would if it were any other wealthy person because of his idea on wealthy people and how they tend to be and felt his personality was "short of gorgeous" because of how different from his idea on wealthy people Gatsby turned out to