Women of Gatsby

There are three main women characters in the Great Gatsby, and they are Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. Daisy is Nick Carraway's cousin, and she is also the woman that Gatsby loves. Daisy grew up in Louisville, and that is the place where she met Gatsby before the war started. She had promised Gatsby that she would wait for him while he was at war. But after a while a man named Tom Buchanan asked Daisy to marry her, and she decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. She lives in East Egg with Tom and they have a very wealthy lifestyle. Daisy has a habit of putting on a fake act in order to cover up her true feelings.

In the beginning of the book, Jordan Baker was introduced as Daisy's good friend. Jordan is known to be very good at sports, especially golf. She was actually accused of cheating in a recent golf tournament. She is also said to be a very dishonest person. Throughout the story, Jordan starts to develop a relationship between Nick after Daisy suggests the idea to her. Jordan represents one of the new women of the 1920s. She is cynical, boyish, and self-centered.

In this book, Myrtle Wilson is the women that is having an affair with Tom. Not only is she having relationships with Tom, but she also has a husband named George Wilson, and they both live in New York City. Her husband has no idea that she is being unfaithful in their marriage. She enjoys drinking alcohol and her manners are a little off. She is a big loud-mouth and everything seems to be revolved around her. In chapter 7 of the book, she gets hit by the car that Daisy and Gastby were driving and she died from impact.

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