#3 Vampirism. First Body Paragraph

One most prominet exapmles of vampirism in the whole book, is shown through Mrytle. She lives in the valley of ashes with her husband Wilson, who is poor, but she also cheats on him with a man named Tom, who is from East Egg and is very wealthy. As Mrytle, Tom, and Nick are riding down the road one day, Myrtle sees a dog on the side of the road that she would like and convinces Tom to reach into his pocket, pull out the money and get it for her. It shows how Myrtle wanted a more luxirious lifestyle away from her husband no matter what the cost would be. She wanted someone who would spend every dime they had just on her. It shows how Mrytle longed to get away from the valley of ashes, but she ended up going nowhere.