The Great Gatsby
Chapter 7 71
why is myrtle upset when she sees tom and jordan?
why is myrtle upset when she sees tom and jordan?
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.
The Great Gatsby