The Great Gatsby
Lucille McKee
The photographer’s wife
Chester’s shrill, chatty wife and another guest at Myrtle’s afternoon party.
Lucille McKee is Chester’s wife, a sharp, animated woman with tight pin curls and a theatrical manner. She is shrill, chatty and self-important, eager for attention and quick to criticize.
She is a minor figure at Myrtle’s apartment party, joining in the gossip and the drinking as the afternoon grows louder. Together with her husband she supplies the comic social texture of the New York scenes. Her sharp voice is hard to miss. She and Chester are the kind of neighbors Myrtle likes to impress.
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Lucille is at the apartment when the party breaks down and Tom hits Myrtle. In the confusion she joins the scramble for towels and cold water, and she is one of the witnesses to Tom’s violence.
She does not return later in the story. The New York apartment is the only place she appears, and its loud chaos is the last time the reader sees her.
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