Find at least three quotes from chapter 2 of The Great Gatsbythat depict the theme of materialism. Explain how the theme of materialism is portrayed in...

In ,ends
up accompanyingand his mistress, , to
a small, impromptu party in the Manhattan apartment that
Tom keeps for their
trysts. Myrtle, a working-class woman, has furnished the apartment (at Toms

expense) with what she believes to be tasteful, elegant furnishings and decorator
accessories.
The excesses of materialism are shown by both the amount and
type of furniture, entirely too
much and thematically ill-suited to a small
New York apartment.

The living room was
crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely
too large
for it, so that to move about was to stumble continuously over scenes of
ladies
swinging in the gardens of Versailles.

Myrtles sister, ,
is one of the guests. She brags to Nick, under the
guise of complaining, about her short trip to
Monte Carlo, and that she and
her friend did not bother to see anything more in
Europe.

[W]e just went to Monte Carlo and back. ... We

had over twelve hundred dollars when we started but we got gypped out of all of it in
two days.
... God, how I hated that town!

Myrtle seems enthralled
with the luxuries she can enjoy as a benefit
of her affair with Tom but also tries to make
spending money seem like a
chore. She offers to give her dress to a guest, Mrs. McKee, then
reels off a
long list of all the shopping and personal services she has planned for the
next
day. Her temporary stays in the apartment are a sharp contrast to the
modest life she and her
husband have, living over his garage. Myrtle tells
her guest,

Im going to give you this
dress as soon as Im through with it. Ive got to get another
one
tomorrow.