"Neither of them can stand the person they're married to" (Fitzgerald 33)
Both Tom and Myrtle no longer have a romantic attraction to the person they are married to, illustrating that marriage, as a theme, is more focused on the display of social class than it is on the display of permanent love to a person. This quote also provides the audience with a sense of foreshadowing potentially displaying that sooner or later the marriages within the book will fall apart as no one truly married for love rather to boost their social class or to maintain their social status.
Both Tom and Myrtle no longer have a romantic attraction to the person they are married to, illustrating that marriage, as a theme, is more focused on the display of social class than it is on the display of permanent love to a person. This quote also provides the audience with a sense of foreshadowing potentially displaying that sooner or later the marriages within the book will fall apart as no one truly married for love rather to boost their social class or to maintain their social status.