Inside the story
Meet Catherine
Catherine is Myrtle Wilson’s worldly younger sister, living with a girlfriend at a hotel and moving easily among New York’s fashionable, gossip-filled party set. Chatty and self-possessed, she trades rumors about Gatsby and encourages Myrtle’s affair.
On the page
A slender, worldly young woman of about thirty with a solid, sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white. Her eyebrows have been plucked and redrawn at a rakish angle, giving her face a slightly blurred look. Countless pottery bracelets jingle up and down her arms, and she dresses in bright, cheap city finery.
