Myrtle is George Wilson's wife, and Tom Buchanan's secret lover. She is more than thirty year old woman. She evidently can’t stand her husband, her lover, Tom, abuses her, breaking her nose during their drunken wild trick-trip in New York City. Her life ends with accident. She is locked in her room by George, who has learned about her unfaithfulness. Nevertheless she manages to escape, so, because it is dark she is run over by Gatsby’s car, which drives Daisy. Subsequently this accident induces to be avenged of his wife's murder.
She is a double-faced character, i. e. she is either minor or major character.
Myrtle is first introduced in the novel as Tom Buchanan's mistress. She is initially introduced at her husband's car repair garage where she meets Nick, the narrator, for the first time. When Nick first saw her he said, "...a ticklish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door. She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty..." Although Myrtle is married to George B. Wilson, she spends a lot of time with Tom in the city. She uses the excuse of visiting her sister Catherine to escape her life at the garage with Wilson. She is a dispirited woman, it seems as though she is married to a man who is boring her, and she wants to get away.
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