Catherine tells Nick about Tom and Myrtle "neither of them can stand the person they're married to" (page 37).
Great Gatsby Quotes about Marriage and Gender Roles
"The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it" (page 39).
"He was his wife's man, and not his own" (page 144).
"That was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together" (page 152-153).
Daisy says about her daughter: "I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" (page 21).
"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish" (page 110).
"broke out Tom savagely. 'Women get these notions in their heads -'" (page 126).
"There was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well" (page 131).
"It excited him too that many men had already loved daisy - it increased her value in his eyes" (page 156).