Women - can't live with 'em.. that's all..

The Great Gatsby is filled with various female characters, and these women have a way of destroying the men. Two women that are a prime example of this in The Great Gatsby are Myrtle Wilson and Daisy Buchanan. Myrtle Wilson is/was married to a lower-class hardworking man by the name of George Wilson. Wilson loves Myrtle very much, but she does not return this love. Instead, she goes and finds herself a rich playmate, Tom Buchanan, to satisfy her. Eventually, George Wilson discovers that Myrtle has been cheating on him. This breaks George's heart, but, due to his financial problems, he must keep working, and he becomes physically sick. When Myrtle, the woman who had no love for George, dies, George's love for her is enough to drive him insane, killing not only who believes to be the murderer, but also himself. The second woman that destroys a man in the timeless piece of work is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to Myrtles playmate, Tom Buchanan. However, in her younger years, she had a relationship with one Jay Gatsby. Daisy eventually left Jay because he wasn't wealthy enough. However, Jay's love and lust for Daisy's robust figure and inspiring personality lead Gatsby to commit his life solely to the goal of winning Daisy back. Everything he did in his life was in order to reach his ultimate prize of winning Daisy, however, this essentially stripped him of all the other joys of life. These two men, George Wilson and Jay Gatsby, were destroyed by the women that they loved. If the women in this story hadn't had such an impact on these men's lives, one would think that both men might have lead much more happy and prosperous lives.