The Great Gatsby
Myrtle has a whole different personality when she is around Tom. When she is with her husband George Wilson she really doesn�t show her love for him. This is because she is having an affair with Tom, and it is even clear right in front of George�s eyes. �I�ll meet you by the news-stand on the lower level.�(17) As soon as she meets up with Tom she turns into a little rich snob woman. Already spending Tom�s money, as if she�s been rich her whole life. She acts like she�s too good for just a plain yellow cab, and need to turn down three of them just to get a new lavender one. Myrtle has got tom wrapped around her finger when she says she wants a dog as well. When Mrs. McKee tells Myrtle how adorable her dress is, she just acts like its some old dress she had sitting around for a decade. �It�s just a crazy old thing�I just slip it on sometimes when I don�t care what I look like.�(20) She acts like she has been a rich for years upon years. But really in fact she only acts like this when she is around Tom. Every place she goes she changes her attitude just like her dresses. It�s a whole new side of Myrtle that her husband George would never see.
2.The carelessness of the rich (attitude, automobile, etc.)
During chapter 1 the book introduces many rich snobs who have the worst attitudes among all people. For instance Daisy and Jordan Baker. When Nick came to greet them the two lazy women were ��P-paralyzed with happiness.�(6) Which in their eyes it meant they were so overjoyed and excited that they couldn�t even move to get up. You can tell that these women have no cares in their lives whatsoever. They were so caught up in their rich lifestyles, that they never had to anything that required any sort of work. They wanted to plan something special for the longest day of the year. �What do people plan.�(8) That one statement shows that the two individual girls have never done a single plan for anything in their lives. That shows how careless they are to the world around them. They are too stuck in themselves to even give other people the time of day.
3.Rumors and theories about characters. Gossip and its impacts on people
There are many theories made about Gatsby because no one has really talked to him at any of his exclusive parties. One of the first theories about him is �Well, they say he�s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm�s. That�s where all his money comes from.� (21) Lucille made a theory that Gatsby bought her a new dress because he doesn�t want any trouble with any of his guests. She thinks that he just wants them to keep coming and enjoying his parties. The more gossip, the more the town�s people keep making up new drama. It�s what keeps them flowing everyday, and without it they would have nothing to talk about. Another theory was � Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.� (29)But Lucille disagreed and said �It�s more than that he was a German spy during the war.�(29)The last theory was from another girl who said � It couldn�t be that, because he was in the American Army during the war.�(29) So all of the people who attend Gatsby�s exclusive parties have no idea who he is, where he came from, and what he does. So even though they don�t know which theory is true, they just keep on making new ones up. Gossip impacts people because once you start it becomes an ongoing cycle because it becomes a habit.