Tom And Myrtle's Relationship In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tom and Myrtle’s relationship suggests that the disloyalty that Tom has for his relationship with Daisy shows what kind of man Tom is and proves that Fitzgerald’s attitude toward the relationship is very cynical. Tom and Myrtle’s relationship is very disloyal to both Tom’s wife and Myrtle’s husband because they are both being unfaithful to their spouses and having an affair. Fitzgerald describes Tom and Myrtle’s relationship by Jordan Baker’s conversation with Nick when she says, “Tom’s got some woman in New York… she might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner-time. Don’t you think?” The author shows that in the eyes of the rest of the characters in the book, their relationship is unacceptable. The way that the author describes