The Great Gatsby

Chapter 7 71

why is myrtle upset when she sees tom and jordan?

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Myrtle is upset because she assumes that Jordan is Daisy.... Tom's wife.

Her expression was curiously familiar — it was an expression I had often seen on women’s faces, but on Myrtle Wilson’s face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.

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