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gatsby 3 (love) - Coggle Diagram
gatsby 3 (love)
Daisy Buchanan
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Materialistic and superficial, retreats behind wealth.
Chooses Tom over Gatsby, allowing Gatsby to take blame for Myrtle's death.
Enigmatic and disappointing, lacking in conscience.
Associated with the symbolism of light, purity, and innocence, but reveals a snobbish nature void of spirituality.
Themes and Techniques
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Myrtle is revealed as someone who desires wealth and means, willing to tolerate infidelity for it.
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Fitzgerald uses these characters to explore themes of love, social class, and disillusionment in the Jazz Age.
Jordan Baker
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Friend of Daisy's, admired for her wealth and charm.
Dates Nick casually, but is offended when he doesn't fall for her charms.
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Myrtle Wilson
Married lover of Tom Buchanan, gains entry into elite society through the affair.
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George Wilson
Myrtle's husband, runs a garage and gas station in the valley of ashes.
Trapped by his position in life, becomes emblematic of the despair in the lower-middle class.
Driven to despair upon learning of his wife's affair, which ultimately leads to her death.