The Great Gatsby: 23-38

As I continue reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I am continuously surprised at how comfortable all of these men and women are with the ideas of cheating on a spouse. It seems that through each marriage displayed in this novel, there is at least one spouse being unfaithful.

I was even more dumbfounded at the idea of Tom being comfortable with Nick meeting his mistress. Hello! Nick is cousins with his own wife! My only guess for this would be that either felt Nick wouldn't have the right to tell Daisy about this or that maybe even Nick wouldn't even care about it. 

Characters in this story just keep making excuses for the affair between Tom and Myrtle Wilson.

"Neither of them can stand the person they are married to...If I was them I'd get a divorce and married to each other right away," (Fitzgerald, pg33). And then, on the same page further down it says, "It's the wife that is really keeping them apart. She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce." It's extremely ironic to me that Myrtle is being shown as a saint by not divorcing her husband. As if being unfaithful to her husband isn't going against God's commandments anyway! It'd be less of a sin to just get the divorce in my eyes! This excuse must only be to make Myrtle and all of those who know about the situation a way to see it in a better light and not as a selfish sin.