Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

Have you ever wondered why Gatsby decided to come back and find Daisy? In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby pursues to find his ex-lover Daisy by buying a house and throwing massive parties across the bay hoping she would wander into his party sometime. Gatsby has a true love for Daisy and he is very eager to find her so he uses Nick as a way to reel her into his hands. The main character Nick is seen throughout the novel as a bystander and Gatsby’s new good friend. Seen by Gatsby’s hopefulness to see Daisy there is a definite feeling of love between him and her based upon their past feelings for each other.
The first encounter between Gatsby and Daisy is when Gatsby requests Nick to invite Daisy …show more content…

First, Daisy and Nick join Gatsby at Gatsby’s house next door where her and Gatsby get some time to recollect themselves, “He hadn 't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs,” (pg.112). First, in this part of the book is when Gatsby’s attitude throughout the rest of the story completely changes; therefore, the whole world seems to disappear causing him to fall for Daisy. Then, he doesn’t even compensate the rest of his house and how glorious it is due to Daisy taking over his whole entire attention span; this almost caused him to fall down his own stairs. Nextly, Gatsby takes Daisy to his room where he flaunts his ravish amounts of clothing by throwing them down at Daisy then she starts to cry, "They 're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. "It makes me sad because I 've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before," (pg..118-119). As seen in this quote, Daisy is now so in love with Gatsby that she weeps because the shirts are the most beautiful that she has ever seen before. Then, Gatsby is now is a trance because he knows that she still has the same feelings for him as he has for her. In these quotes it is shown that Gatsby and Daisy still enjoy being with each other and are now recollecting their

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