Myrtle's Immorality

There are many characters in the Great Gatsby novel that were each looking for something different Myrtle was one of those characters. Throughout this essay I hope to explain how Myrtle started low and tried to work her way up to the upper class. I hope to explain where she came from and where she wants to go and how in the end she tragically met her demise in her attempts. Early in Americas history …

…there was still a long way to climb. At the end of the book she was killed by Daisy the wife of Tom. Throughout her life she tried to climb to the peak of the upper class and in the end throughout all of her experience’s of gaining entrance in to the upper class got her killed. The 1920’s were certainly a time to remember anything and everything could be bought, morals were forgotten.