Myrtle Wilson desperatly tries to find a way to make her feel as if she has the rich lifestyle like the other characters in the story. Myrtle does this by using Tom Buchanan to buy her all the objects that's she desires, and in return Tom uses myrtle for an affair. When mrs. Mckee asks myrtle about her dress she says, "I just slip it on when I don't care what I look like," (31). When myrtle says this to mrs. McKee she is trying to imply that she always wears designer dresses. Myrtle also makes Tom buy and apartment for there affairs and all of this furniture that is was to big for the room. "The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that's to move was to stumble continuely over scenes of ladies swinging in the garden of Versailles," (29). By saying all of this furniture that myrtle is buying for her small apartment is trying to show the readers that the furniture doesn't fit in the apartment just like myrtle doesn't fit in the rich lifestyle. Just like myrtle, gatsby also tries to have all of these materialistic items but for other reasons.

Gatsby desires to have all of these items that he has in order to win daisy over and to show her that he has all these nice things, but he also is doing it for himself. The first thing that people notice about gatsby is his wealth, but at nicks first look at gatsby he can see that it is all a false accusation. Gatsby is trying to be old money but everyone can clearly see