Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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In the novel, one character who stands out the greatest as trying to fulfill his dreams is Jay Gatsby. He has the most determination out of all the characters in the book. Gatsby begins to become well known when he starts to become rich. He lives in a giant mansion, and hosts extravagant parties due to him, believing wealth will solve his problems. One of the reasons he strives to be successful and rich is so that he can win over the love of his life, Daisy, and pursue happiness. Daisy and Gatsby thought they were truly in love, however Gatsby in the past was not the richest. Daisy’s expectations for the guy she would marry would be a rich dependable man. Gatsby was not that at the time, which was a huge problem for Gatsby, consequently, Daisy

Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby is Jay Gatsby, the main character, had a dream to improve, at that point he was still called James Gatz. However, after meeting Daisy Buchanan his dream is eclipsed because he now needs money in order to win her over. Daisy cannot see herself without material items. Gatsby has to make up a lie in order to seem like he has old money rather than new money so that he can be up to standards for Daisy.
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Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby”, the character George Wilson shoots Gatsby dead. But who is really to blame for his demise? Daisy Buchanan is the real person to blame because she lead gatsby to believe she would leave Tom for him and because she should have admitted to her mistakes. Daisy Buchanan plays her share in the blame for Jay Gatsby’s death because of the way she treated Gatsby. Daisy leads Gatsby on by letting him think she was gonna leave her husband while they run away together “... she realized at last what she was doing - and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all” (132).
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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In addition to Tom Buchanan’s hatred for Gatsby, Tom can be labeled as responsible for Gatsby’s death as a result of Tom’s affair, his lie, and his carelessness. While Daisy did lead Gatsby on with a minor relationship, her decision arose from Tom’s unfaithful love for her as he had an affair with Myrtle Wilson. If Tom had shown Daisy undying love for her, there would not have been a reason for Daisy to have feelings for Gatsby once again. When George went out in search for Myrtle’s killer, he stopped at the Buchanan’s house. During their conversation, Tom mentions that Gatsby had been responsible for hitting Myrtle with the car and killing her.
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Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby
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The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway proclaims himself to be “one of the few honest people” that he has known and he says that because his father told him “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you’ve had,” so he is “inclined to reserve all judgments.” He moved to “West Egg” on Long Island from the Middle West to “learn the bond business” because in his eyes, the Middle West became “the ragged edge of the universe.” He has an internal conflict on his feelings of New York. West egg is “new money” and East Egg is “old money.” He enjoys “the racy, adventurous feel of it,” but ultimately believes there is a “quality of distortion” about it.
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Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby
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It is a given that every piece of work that people read will contain all sorts of characters. Those characters can range from villains, victims, or venerables. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, he very thoroughly presents each of those types of characters to his readers. Mr. Wilson matches the definition of a victim in this novel by the way people deceived him and lied to him the entire time, Nick Carraway presents himself as a venerable, otherwise known as an honorable character, due to his outstanding loyalty, and Daisy Buchanan, although not seen by most, is a villain because of her actions that cause detrimental issues.
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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When you love someone, it causes us to do crazy things that we would have never had agreed to do. “Obsession: an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind. Love: an intense feeling of deep affection.” Gatsby’s love is all over the place for Daisy... or is it love? The things he has done for her, just to meet once again are extensive; impressing her with his money, buying a house across the bay for her, throwing extravagant parties.
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that a man’s wealth is not a reflection of his worth through Daisy and Tom. Nick, the narrator, states, “a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth” (Fitzgerald 2). He feels that humane qualities are not equally distributed. Only certain people have respectable qualities just as only a few people have a lot of money.
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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Daisy’s love for both of these men was her weakness, but her love also became Gatsby’s weakness as well. After years of loving this woman, Gatsby is no longer able to accept the fact that the past is past, and it must remain there, weakening him and his ability to see situations clearly. When Gatsby first meets Daisy after their years apart, he is fearful of what could or could not occur, even stating that their meeting is “a terrible mistake”(87). When he first tries to relive the past, he internally realized that it is impossible, and with that realization, he tries to back out of the meeting. At the same time though, Gatsby, though aware of his futile pursuit, continues on the path that will lead to his destruction, eventually letting himself
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Why Is Daisy's Ambition In The Great Gatsby Great
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The primary reason Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship ended was due to Gatsby’s poverty, as Daisy was used to a lavish lifestyle. However even after Daisy has married a man who can meet those needs, Gatsby still attempts to win Daisy over with his large sum of money. After Gatsby’s long awaited reunion with Daisy, he is surprised as she introduces him to her daughter whom he never “had ever really believed in its existence before” (Fitzgerald 117). Gatsby, who has heard Daisy’s daughter mentioned multiple times, thought that if he acted like her child does not exist, there would be no resistance in Daisy leaving her current family to start one with him. His naiveness to Daisy’s life is concerning considering the reality is she has started a life without Gatsby, whether he believes so or not.
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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Living in a mansion, with millions of dollars and friends, Sounds like a dream life to me. But in The Great Gatsby, James Gatz also referred to as “Gatsby”, regarded this life as the life of attracting his lover Daisy. He loved her when he was poor, He lied and left to build her dream life, then everything crashed when she came back years later. He thought of the ideal life as an attraction to win her all over again.
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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When the idea of the 1920’s comes up the first thought is “the roaring twenties” with parties, wealth, and dancing. Often the issues of the time are forgotten. However, The Great Gatsby stands as a window into the social system of the 1920’s. With references to racism and prohibition, Fitzgerald created a story that gives a sense of society at this time. However, the most evident issue is the sexism often portrayed.
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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Daisy's affection for Gatsby is described in Young and Beautiful as progressively fading. Gatsby's fantasies of staying with Daisy forever and recovering the young love are lost in the wind of Daisy's uneasiness. The song describes their crazy, young city love and how they felt as a couple. They miss this love that was bigger than all, full of electricity, as they reflect on their luxurious lives.
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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Gatsby loved Daisy, in his way. In chapter 6, after Gatsby’s party which Tom and Daisy attended, Jay reveals to Nick how he and Daisy fell in love. He explain that when he kissed her, he fell deeply in love with her. Weather one kiss can being about that kind of enduring love is questionable and certainly a strong argument can be made that what Jay loved was the idea of Daisy more than Daisy herself. She was, after all, beautiful and rich.
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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby
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Throughout the narrative, Nick becomes disgusted by careless people which results in his desire to condemn others for their selfish actions and his choice to go back home. Ewing Klipspringer is a very careless character in The Great Gatsby. He benefited probably more than anyone from Gatsby, he was always at the parties and basically lived there. People even called him the boarder, as in a boarding house or hotel. Even though Klipspringer was living rent-free and benefiting from Gatsby, he never went to Gatsby’s funeral.
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Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan is not presented as a “likeable” character. But a character doesn’t have to be “likeable” to be interesting. Daisy is incredibly fickle and apathetic. But at the same time, she has the same capacity for hope and love that Gatsby had. Even though her voice and diction project confidence and genuine interest, Daisy Buchanan is not a particular good person because of her selfish attitude, her carelessness, and her childishness.
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