![]() ![]() Her last line “you can’t live forever” shows that Myrtle knew full well that she may be getting into a taxi with a murderer or someone who might kill her, but she obviously didn’t care. ![]() All I kept thinking about, over and over, was “you can’t live forever, you can’t live forever”. I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him, I didn’t hardly know I wasn’t getting into a subway train. When we came into the station he was next to me, and his white shirtfront pressed against my arm, and so I told him I’d have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied. He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him, but every time he looked at me, I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head. I was going up to New York to see my sister and spend the night. “It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train. ![]() Keep reading to find out the details about their relationship.Īt a party in Tom and Myrtle’s apartment in Manhattan, Myrtle tells Nick that she met Tom on the train. In other words, he wouldn’t have much of an opportunity to meet, let alone get intimate with, a lower class housewife like Myrtle Wilson. Tom and Myrtle are having an affair but where did these two meet?Īfter all, Tom is a rich man who doesn’t have (or need) a job, where he could meet people from all walks of life. Tom is married to Daisy, and Myrtle is married to George Wilson. The Great Gatsby is a novel about love and betrayal, but beyond that, it’s a story about the times in which author F. ![]()
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