As we watch Gatsby and Daisy undertake feelings of the past, how will the outcome between Tom and Daisy's marriage pan out with Gatsby willing to do unthinkable things for his dream of having daisy. Throughout the book we slowly learn the past of the characters, lighting the undeniable chemistry between Gatsby and Daisy with drama and cheating along the way; towards the end we watch as people start to die as a result of unfulfilled love. Gasby becomes confident in Daisy’s affection towards him once he confronts the marriage he realizes Daisy’s heart is still with Tom leading him into a depression. His memories with Daisy and hope for what used to be lingering leading to him only wishing for what he can’t have.
The tender feelings from Gasby and Daisy’s first impressions make Gasby long for a recapture of the past. Gatsby’s craving for Daisy to come to his parties or see him again forces him to do everything to set up the possibility of Daisy running into him.
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Daisy doesnt know what to say, being in shock of what was happening overwhelmed with what Gatsby was saying to Tom. Gatsby acts as though he knows Daisy and what she wants after her marrying another man leaving Gatsby. Gatsby makes excuses for Daisy choosing Tom
‘Your wife doesn't love you,’ said Gatsby. ‘She's never loved you. She loves me.’
‘You must be crazy!’ exclaimed Tom automatically.
Gatsby sprang to his feet, vivid with excitement.
‘She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!’(Fitzgerald 130).
This paragraph shows Gatsby’s desperation and vulnerability. Daisy only says in return she used to love Tom denying her ever lasting love that was expected from
Tom soon becomes aware of this relationship, and that Daisy may leave him. To stop this possibility he confronts Gatsby about his past, revealing that everything Gatsby had mentioned about his past was fictitious. Unchanged by these accusations, Gatsby ideally expects Daisy to confess to solely loving him, although she admits that she had not only loved Gatsby, but Tom as well, “‘I love you now[Gatsby]--isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.’ She began to sob helplessly.
Gatsby ends up getting humbled in the end when he asks Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him and Daisy can not do so. Daisy loved Gatsby, but she also did love Tom and her memories with him still mattered to her. Tom offered Daisy stability and reassurance. Daisy did not think Gatsby had enough to satisfy her back then and she continues to have this same feeling now. Gatsby is hurt by this but he does not give up on his love for her until finally she gives up on it for the both of them.
Gatsby has been idolizing Daisy and making his imaginations of her something that she could never live up to. Going through the second encounter meeting Daisy, it had been a
Tom becomes livid when discovering his wife’s affair, acknowledging the fact that the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby is far deeper than Daisy “making a fool of herself”. However, Daisy returns back to Tom, regardless of the fact that Gatsby treated her like a queen. While Gatsby was determined to recreate history, Tom was concerned with the present, which is what influenced Daisy to stay with him. The novel’s narrator depicts their relationship to have an“unmistakable air of natural intimacy...and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”, implying that their devious personas are what keeps their marriage
Gatsby claims his “‘wife doesn’t love [him]...she never loved [him].’” Tom does not believe Gatsby and confidently denies his claim. Tom is sure that Daisy loves him just as much as the day she married him. Gatsby tells Daisy to confirm that she does not love Tom, but she hesitates in her admittance, revealing that she does love Tom. Gatsby was so blinded by his idealistic illusion that he could not accept the possibility that Daisy also loves Tom.
Gatsby and Daisy has a past history of love, Gatsby never stopped loving her but Daisy stopped loving him. When Gatsby come back home Daisy’s old emotions come back keep in mind that she knows Tom is cheating on her only fuels the love she has for Gatsby. By cheating she uses the something that hurts her and turns it into something that makes her happy. Daisy also cheats because Gatsby makes her feel appreciated when her husband Tom hasn’t made her feel that way. Tom shows thought the book he doesn't have and regard for object or living things Tom uses Daisy as a trophy rather than his wife.
By attracting Daisy, “Gatsby sees the potential for future happiness, acceptance, and the resumption of a stalled love” (Heise 58). Gatsby also attempts to remove Daisy’s husband, Tom, by arguing that Daisy has never loved
At the suite, Fitzgerald shows us Gatsby’s desperate hope for Daisy as he states to Tom, “She never loved you, do you hear?” this dialogue shows us how desperate Gatsby is to take Daisy from Tom. Fitzgerald uses detail to contradict Gatsby’s statement, by having Tom explain intimate moments between Daisy and himself. Gatsby’s hope for Daisy is causing him to damage Daisy’s marriage with Tom, because he is so desperate to take her away, that he eagers her to make a choice. Daisy is unable to admit to Gatsby’s claim, “Oh, you want too much!”
Fitzgerald displays that Gatsby really wants to be back in Daisy’s life in Chapter 7 “‘She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!’” (Fitzgerald 139).
‘Daisy?’ ” Daisy begins to choke up at the precious memories Tom brings up. She eventually cries to Gatsby, “‘Oh, you want too much!’... ‘I love you now- isn’t that enough?
she cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now--isn’t that enough?”’ (132) Tom tried to prove to Daisy that Gatsby was a bootlegger and that he was worth nothing. “‘She’s not leaving me!’...’Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger,’” (133). As Tom convinced Daisy that she loved him more than Gatsby, Gatsby still tried to find the little love she still had for him before it was too late.
When Gatsby confronts Daisy about her love for him, Daisy is unable to deny that she didn’t love Tom. She quotes that she “loved [him] now—isn't that enough? I can't help what's past,” (132). Her love for Gatsby causes her to act without thinking. She doesn’t care who she hurts.
Gatsby makes an impulsive decision to buy an elegant mansion in hopes that he and Daisy would meet some time again. In his favor, Gatsby and Daisy meet again, but that only makes Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy skyrocket. While Nick and Gatsby are talking about the Daisy situation, Nick explains that Gatsby should no longer live in the past because it is taking away from his present time. Gatsby is too consumed in his fantasies about Daisy to the point where he thinks they are truly real. Though Gatsby's past has been good with Daisy, he needs to be able to live in the moment and not be caught up with past
At that point Gatsby should realize that Daisy is leading him on, but his obsession blinds him to that and he refuses to accept it and move on. His love for Daisy is the whole reason he bought his house in East Egg and throws his parties but, he’s too afraid to go talk to her himself, but then he expects everything to go back to normal. “He wanted something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it slowly, he could find out what that thing was.” The Great Gatsby (Nick Pg85).
(99) In this moment, Gatsby makes it clear to Daisy that he could easily provide her with the same lifestyle she shares with Tom. Once Gatsby captures Daisy’s affection, he becomes full of greed and doesn’t want to believe she ever gave any of her love to Tom. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” (118) When Daisy states “‘Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,’ (142), Gatsby begins to feel a “touch of panic” (142). All of his parties, stories, and entire persona were all fabricated to win Daisy back.