Daisy The Fool In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is an American novel written by Scott Fitzgerald. On the surface, the book revolves around the concept of romance, the love between two individuals. However, the novel incorporates less of a romantic scope and rather focuses on the theme of the American Dream in the 1920s. Fitzgerald depicts the 1920’s as an era of decline in moral values. The strong desire for luxurious pleasure and money ultimately corrupts the American dream which was originally about individualism.

The Great Gatsby-Nick Fawcett-Chapter 6 Questions 1. What is revealed about Jay Gatsby aka “James Gatz”? James Gatz is Jay Gatsby’s legal name, and he is originally from North Carolina. He was born to an unsuccessful farm family and didn't accept his parent’s to be family.

In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed as a modern woman; she is sophisticated, careless and beautifully shallow. Daisy knows who she is, and what it takes for her to be able to keep the lifestyle she grew up in, and this adds to her carelessness and her feigned interest in life. In all, Daisy is a woman who will not sacrifice material desires or comfort for love or for others, and her character is politely cruel in this way. Daisy’s main strength, which buoyed her throughout her youth and when she was in Louisville, is her ability to know what was expected of her and feign cluelessness.

Throughout the novel “ The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald it becomes more and more evident that Daisy is the biggest user and manipulator than the rest of the characters. Daisy is the type of character who seems and feigns innocence but this is to derail and confuse people of who she really is as a person. Not only does she use and string Gatsby along but she does the same with Tom. Daisy seems to be in control in situations when it may seem very unlikely that she is.

Another time when eyes unmask a hidden truth is when Tom intercepts flirtation between Gatsby and Daisy. Tom hears Daisy say Gatsby looks cool, and immediately, he recognizes the affair. " His eyes still flashing between Gatsby and his wife" is the symbol that he has recognized their affair, and he also recognized the affair, partially, by just looking at them (Fitzgerald 119). So, in this instance, his eyes are what help him pervade their connection and show the reader he recognizes the affair.

The Seven Deadly Sins are always a theme in which many things can relate to: lust, greed, sloth, envy, pride, wrath, and gluttony. Some books are quite easy to relate, while others have a harder time finding connections. Four books can relate to four of the seven deadly sins very easily. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, can relate to lust, Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare, relates to envy, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, relates to pride, and finally Night, by Elie Wiesel, relates to wrath.     The Great Gatsby relates to the deadly sin of lust on more than one occasion.

Tom Buchanan is a very supercilious man and, without him in the book there wouldn't be a book. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Buchanan is an important man who is arrogant and careless. Toms superciliousness leads him to believe that he can do whatever he wants with whomever, in turn, leading his wife to feel like she doesn’t belong with him, thus making her turn to another man. This makes Tom angry with other guys want his wife. Tom’s superciliousness leads to his affair with Myrtle and Gatsby wanting Daisy to his own.

Gatsby’s dreams and aspirations in life are rather interesting and amazing as he goes about his life in the book. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald helps highlight the social, moral, and political issue that were very present during the 1920’s and today. Gatsby is the focus of the book as before the book began, he was an ex-soldier who came to wealth by some rather illegal ways. Daisy a married woman is his person of interest, who was his ex-lover 5 years before the book started. Gatsby’s actions, and words demonstrate a clear obsession with Daisy that seems to have no end.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in “The Great Gatsby”, is chronicling the Jazz era; its excesses, its disappointments, and the fragility of the American Dream. Daisy stands as a symbol of this as she enjoys the fruits of chasing and finding what, at the time, was considered the American dream, living in luxury, but finding no real enjoyment or happiness. She is a walking irony. By using such symbolism, Fitzgerald provides the reader with a living, breathing example of his theme regarding the weakness, and ultimate disappointment, inherent in the American dream.

The film “The Great Gatsby” has amazing themes in the 1974 and 2013, the themes I selected were from the 2013 version and the themes were “There will always be a chance where you get to see who your true friends are and going to see when you're really close ones aren't who they say they are or think what they are” and also “ Choosing to cover for someone that you have the idea of loving might not always be the right choice” those theme attracted my attention the most. There will always be a chance where you get to see who your true friends are and going to see when you're really close ones aren't who they say they are or think what they are because when it the time to see their true colors is not going to be at the right time because when you're in trouble you gonna want your friends to help you but then you find that they betrayed you that sorry that they can't help at your time of trouble. In ¨The Great Gatsby¨ Daisy was the one friend that Gatsby trusted and she ended up being selfish and not tell anybody that she was the one who had killed Myrtle instead of Gatsby it seems like she was just using Gatsby's love to overrule the fact she didn't have to ask him if he can say that he was the one driving so she couldn't ruin

“’They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.’” (The Great Gatsby, 87) Here we get a small glimpse at the Daisy’s true emotions; she’s sad, however, she uses the “beautiful shirts” as a diversion to hide that what she’s really sad about is not shirts, but she’s sad because she realizes she’s missed the experience and life she could’ve had with Gatsby. Gatsby throwing the shirts above her just keep mounting higher and higher on the table below, just like her feelings have for him, all of these emotions were piling up and mounting higher and are not all falling on her just the way Gatsby’s shirts were.