AUBADE

“The Great Gatsby,” is a book written through the ambivalent perspective of the

narrator, Nick Carraway, which makes—if not forces—readers to skeptically analyze the “The

Great Gatsby.” (The book will occasionally be referred to as TGG, its acronym, for a more

coherent read.) The reader should be familiar with the characters and a bit of their history

before plunging into my analysis and interpretation of their actions in TGG—one will be

provided, but if one knows the story already, it can be skipped.

Daisy Buchannan: second major character, second cousin to Nick Carraway, and wife

of Tom Buchannan; he is the womanizer Mrs. Buchannan is married to and holds one mistress

dear, Mrs. Wilson. The fourth major character, but the most salient, is Jay Gats, or as he is

most addressed to in the story “Gatsby,” a man of great wealth and outstanding love for Mrs.

Buchannan. The minor characters in TGG are: Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Wilson, and Jordin Baker. The

Wilsons are poor, and Ms. Baker is a “professional” golfer.

Tom Buchannan and Myrtle Wilson are married, but engage in an extramarital

relationship together to either escape their realities, or to deal with their psychological issues.

TGG does not offer details into the character’s psychological issues directly, but the reader can

assume what they are based on their portrayed personalities. Myrtle is a chubby, unhappy,

rebellious, married woman; thus, she engages in an infidelious relationship to escape her own

fiasco of a marriage. Mr. Buchannan is an aging former high school football star, and he is a

blatant womanizer. Why do these characters act as they do? What notions them to escape

their realities in a sinful manner, or to subconsciously deal with their feelings via infidelity. Mr.

Buchannan does love his wife; Mrs. Wilson does not love her spouse.

I believe that Myrtle cheated on her husband to (besides to escape the fiasco of her