Myrtle Wilson as the Wasteland Figure in the Great Gatsby

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English

 

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Barbara H

 

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February 1, 2015

 

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He uses her to point out what he sees as the faults of modern society. Myrtle is materialistic, superficial, and stuck living in the physical wasteland referred to as "the valley of ashes." Fitzgerald uses her to portray the social wasteland, particulaly the growing materialism and superficiality of modern society...
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He makes a huge statement about the repression of the impoverished by the upper-class in the modern wasteland through Myrtle. She not only lives in the geographical wasteland, but she also embodies the moral and social wasteland that Fitzgerald is condemning. Myrtle is the only vivacious creature in "the valley of ashes," Fitzgerald's geographical wasteland, "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens"(23)...
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