Myrtle Wilson says that her husband is not the man she thought she married. What happened right after their wedding that caused her to immediately...

Inof ,says that she
thought George was a gentleman and "knew something about breeding" when she married
him. She realized almost immediately that she had made a mistake. Soon after their wedding, a
man came round while George was out and asked for his suit. Myrtle understood that George had
borrowed a suit for the wedding and never told her or anyone else about it. She returned the
suit to its owner and then lay down and cried all afternoon.

This anecdote
says more about Myrtle than it does about George. Her conception of what makes someone a
"gentleman" is fundamentally materialistic, which is why she is impressed by , the
wealthy brute. Her emotional reaction to George not having his own suit for the wedding links
her with , who cries over the beauty of 's expensive shirts.