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Tragic Tale of Myrtle Wilson
The Great Gatsby
Confuscious, Homer, Shakespeare, Sophocles and Virgil all contributed to the criteria that makes a modern day tragic hero. The key points that make a modern day tragedy includes the hero having a tragic flaw, suffering meaning something, being an ordinary person, catharsis and death. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s timeless tragedy “The Great Gatsby”, Gatsby is usually thought of as the tragic hero, when it is actually Myrtle. Looking through the criteria of a tragic hero, Myrtle is the true tragic hero by meeting some of the modern criteria. She has a sad life and loveless marriage providing catharsis, and has a fatal flaw that leads to her untimely death.
Myrtle is an attractive woman in her mid-thirties who rushes into marriage, and tries to make herself seem more rich than she is. “ The only CRAZY I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake”. (Fitzgerald chapter 2). Myrtle admits that marrying Wilson was a mistake and previously states that she is unhappy in her marriage. She’s in a lifelong relationship with a man she does not love, but who’s committed to her and they are living in a poor area with no hopes of moving. She has no job and is dependent on her husband’s suffering job, making the reader feel sympathy for her and have older readers relate to her. From when Myrtle leaves the valley of ashes to the hotel party she plans, She changes her dress multiple times and Nick comments "With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change” (Fitzgerald chapter 2). MyrtleThis shows how Myrtle tries to act richer than she is and puts on a facade, her real life is sad and has her living under her means so she uses her affair with Tom as a way of acting out the life she wishes she had. “It’s just a crazy old thing, she said, “I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like”. Another example of Myrtle acting rich, saying a fancy dress that is better
The Great Gatsby
Confuscious, Homer, Shakespeare, Sophocles and Virgil all contributed to the criteria that makes a modern day tragic hero. The key points that make a modern day tragedy includes the hero having a tragic flaw, suffering meaning something, being an ordinary person, catharsis and death. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s timeless tragedy “The Great Gatsby”, Gatsby is usually thought of as the tragic hero, when it is actually Myrtle. Looking through the criteria of a tragic hero, Myrtle is the true tragic hero by meeting some of the modern criteria. She has a sad life and loveless marriage providing catharsis, and has a fatal flaw that leads to her untimely death.
Myrtle is an attractive woman in her mid-thirties who rushes into marriage, and tries to make herself seem more rich than she is. “ The only CRAZY I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake”. (Fitzgerald chapter 2). Myrtle admits that marrying Wilson was a mistake and previously states that she is unhappy in her marriage. She’s in a lifelong relationship with a man she does not love, but who’s committed to her and they are living in a poor area with no hopes of moving. She has no job and is dependent on her husband’s suffering job, making the reader feel sympathy for her and have older readers relate to her. From when Myrtle leaves the valley of ashes to the hotel party she plans, She changes her dress multiple times and Nick comments "With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change” (Fitzgerald chapter 2). MyrtleThis shows how Myrtle tries to act richer than she is and puts on a facade, her real life is sad and has her living under her means so she uses her affair with Tom as a way of acting out the life she wishes she had. “It’s just a crazy old thing, she said, “I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like”. Another example of Myrtle acting rich, saying a fancy dress that is better