In 1900’s is a decade known for reckless spending in the United States. During this period many Americans spend their lives of the budget on food, apparels, and entertainments. By doing this, it displays many Americans to have a feeling of wealth like those aristocrats in the West. Daisy, Myrtle, and Gatsby, the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, represent how the lifestyle of the American society devotes to unnecessary extravagances. Their wealth, although have abundant of prosperities, are never satisfied their desire for higher social class.
The desire for a sumptuous life is what lures Myrtle into having affair with Tom, a wealthy young man. Her decision betrays her marriage with George, which leads to