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Compare And Contrast Myrtle And Daisy In The Great Gatsby
In the book the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. They're three women named Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle. All three of these women have differences but in a way all three women are similar.To compare and contrast between Daisy,Jordan and Myrtle we need to know the charter trait of each charter. Each lady have different lives Daisy is a rich women that loves hiding from her problems behind a wall of money, Jordan is a women that live for the fine things in life and prefers money then people feelings and Myrtle is a poor cheating wife that doesn't care about her husband at all. But in each life they all share one trait. They Lack compassion for other human beings. Daisy is one of the main characters in the book. She is married to a wealthy man named Tom which is having an affair with Myrtle. Daisy knows her husband is cheating but doesn't file for divorce because she claims her religion doesn't allow it but in the book it states 'Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie' said by Nick on page 33. So its clear that Daisy intentions for staying and marrying Tom Buchanan was for his money. Later in the book you find out that a rich man named James Gats also known as Gastby had a thing with Daisy in the pass. And his whole life goal was to be reunited with Daisy ,' The Love of his life'. Later Tom finds outs about how Gatsby really got his wealth and says "I found out what your drugstores‘ were...He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side street drugstores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That‘s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn‘t far wrong...That drugstore business was just small change...but you‘ve got something on now that Walter‘s afraid to tell me about" stated in The Great Gatsby on page 133. So this Man main mission in life was to get daisy back. Eventually he gets Daisy and Daisy has an affair with Tom. Time passes on and

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