ion. Myrtle is forced to change clothes when she arrives at her apartment because the mood has changed; Fitzgerald says, “with the influence of the dress, her personality had also undergone a change” (Fitzgerald 35). Myrtle’s flat is described as being “crowded to the doors with tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continuously” (Fitzgerald 33). The rooms are so stuffed with her extravagant possessions, it is hard to navigate. However, Myrtle’s materialism cannot match Daisy’s, because she does not have the means to support the lifestyle; the vulgarity of the rich Daisy is matched by the crassness of the poor Myrtle (de Koster 94). Myrtle’s extravagant possessions show her selfish nature.Fitzgerald writes Jordan Baker as Nick’s love interest in the novel. Jordan is presented in as poor a light as the other two women. She relates Gatsby’s entire life story to Nick despite the fact that Gatsby apparently doesn’t want Nick to know about it, and she has no problem mentioning that “Tom’s got some woman in New York” while the two are at the dinner table at Tom and Daisy’s house and Tom has gone to answer the phone (Fitzgerald 19). Jordan’s gossipy nature is revealed immediately, characterizing her from the start as immoral.Jordan is a dishonest woman. Nick says that when they were in Warwick together, she “left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down and then lied about it.” Next, Nick recounts the story of Jordan’s first golf tournament; he says “there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers- a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round” (Fitzgerald 62). Nick calls Jordan “incurably dishonest” (Fitzgerald 63). Jordan’s dishonesty adds to her habitual gossiping to further the image of her immo...
