Nick's description of Myrtle Wilson when he first meets her at Wilson's garage, sharply contrasts his characterizations of Daisy Buchanan, who is young, girlish, languid, and has a "low, thrilling voice," dressed in white when he meets her in the novel's beginning (13). Myrtle is in her thirties and is "faintly stout" (29). She wears a dark blue dress. He says her face contains no beauty, but she has "an immediately perceptible vitality" (30). She carries "her surplus flesh sensuously" (29). She has a "soft, coarse voice" (30). When Tom and Nick meet her later, she has changed clothes, but she is still in a dark dress, brown, and it "stretched tight over her rather wide hips" (31). It is difficult to imagine anyone more different from Daisy Buchanan than Myrtle Wilson, the former in her setting at an East Egg mansion on the shore and the latter living above the garage on the edge of an ash heap.
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