How Does Fitzgerald Present Marriage In The Great Gatsby

atsby Analytical Essay
In “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows multiple themes, such as marriage. He demonstrates how each couple is un-loyal to their significant other because they are not happy with one another. This is represented through the book with the motif: cheating. He shows these issues of loyalty with Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Myrtle, and Wilson.
The first time cheating is shown is when Daisy and Tom invite Nick and Miss Baker over for dinner. They are all sitting at the table when all of a sudden Tom receives a phone call from his mistress. When this happens Tom gets up from the table and lightly runs to answer the phone, then Daisy politely gets up after him to talk in the other room. Miss Baker then gets close to
Nick and says, “Tom’s got some woman in New York” (Fitzgerald 14). Nick is caught in shock.

Daisy looks up immediately and “shook her head decisively at Tom” (Fitzgerald 14).
Tom goes out to the city with Nick and introduces him to his mistress Myrtle. Tom tells
Myrtle, “I’ll meet you by the news-stand on the lower level” and she says okay (Fitzgerald 26).
Nick, Tom, and Myrtle all went to New York to an apartment to get dressed because they were going to throw a little get together. Catherine, Myrtle’s sister, tells Nick that the reason the both of them haven’t gotten married to each other is because Daisy is “keeping them apart. She’s a catholic, they don’t believe in divorce” (Fitzgerald 33). Once Myrtle’s husband Wilson finds out

Locke 2 about the affair he beats her heavily. People from across the street hear her yell “Beat me! Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!” (Fitzgerald 137).
Daisy and Gatsby were deeply in love before she met Tom. Gatsby was sent off to