Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby: Unfaithfulness and Greed
The Great Gatsby: Unfaithfulness and Greed
The love described in the novel, The Great Gatsby, contains "violence
and egoism not tenderness and affection." The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
writes on wealth, love, and corruption. Two coupes, Tom and Daisy Buchanan and
George and Myrtle Wilson, match perfectly with these categories. Both couples
are different in the way they choose to live together, but are similar in a few
ways.
Unfaithfulness and greed are the only similarities the couples shared.
Tom, Daisy, and Myrtle were all unfaithful to their spouses. Their love for
themselves far out-weighed their love for each....
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