The Great Gatsby: Blog 4
F. Scott Fitzgerald

     In chapter two of this book, I learned some surprising information about a few of the characters. I found out that Tom Buchanan, who is married to Daisy, has a mistress. His mistress is Myrtle Wilson, who is also married. Myrtle's sister, Catherine, said, "Neither of them can stand the person they're married to" (Fitzgerald, 33). I find this sentence somewhat hard to understand. Even though the idea of marriage has changed dramatically in the past few years, I can not imagine marrying someone on a whim and not actually wanting, even for a moment, to spend the rest of my life with that person. This book is set in the early 1900's, when divorce was absolutely unheard of. Because of this, it isn't socially acceptable for them to simply get divorced and marry each other. In order to do that, they would have to move far away in order to get away from their horrible reputations.The fact that this story involves so much infidelity shows that this isn't something that has just started happening in the last few decades; cheating has always been a problem. Catherine says they will eventually get married, while Myrtle Wilson says she can not get a divorce because she is Catholic. I think eventually they will get caught in all of the lies and maybe even be left by their spouses.