Marriage and Love Flashcards
Tom is disloyal in their marriage
“The fact that he had one [a mistress] was insisted upon wherever he was known.”
Girls who go out with Tom seem to get in trouble, whether it’s Daisy’s bruised fingers, this girl’s broken arm, or Myrtle’s mutilated chest.
‘Her arm was broken’
“I know you didn’t mean to, but you did do it.”
“Her left breast was swinging loose like a flap”
Myrtle is heartbroken
‘There was no need to listen for the heart beneath.’
Daisy’s love is like a possession to Tom
He expects her to love him
“Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now.”
Tom is frustrated by how people are judging his and Daisy’s marriage
“Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.”
Tom trying to dismiss the stress of Daisy not loving him, to comfort himself
‘Sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn’t know what she’s doing’
Tom is boastful at the thought of Daisy not leaving him for Gatsby
“She’s not leaving me!”
Marriage doesn’t mean much of anything; it’s just a dying social system. The feeling is what matters.
Marriage makes everything confusing
“I did love him once – but I loved you too.”
Marriage is supposed to be about joining your lives, and so having a separate life is a total betrayal.
‘He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world’
