The Great Gatsby How the American dream destroyed Myrtle

The Great Gatsby could be described as a book about the complicated lives of aimless people. The character Myrtle was so obsessed with money and reaching the American dream that it ended up destroying her. Through wrecking her marriage, staying in anabusive relationship and overall greed for money, her death was inevitable. Myrtle was extremely greedy and through coveting the rich began to destroy her marriage. She spoke to her friends telling them; “ I only …

…to Tom’s constant abuse. Myrtle finally died when she was struck by a car driven by Daisy and Gatsby. This is very ironic as she wanted to be rich, but the rich ended up killing her. Through jealousy of what she wasn’t, rich, she ruined her marriage, was abused and eventually died because of it. This proves that the quest for the American dream is a futile attempt at something one cannot be.