In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, we see a story of one girl torn between two men. Daisy is a bright girl who wants to do the right thing but doesn't know what the right thing is. Tom and Gatsby are men who both love Daisy, but we don’t know who truly loves her. I believe Gatsby truly loves Daisy because of how he treats her.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character Daisy consistently deceives the other characters in the novel through how they appear and act. Near the beginning of the novel, Daisy acts consistently angelic, surrounded by bright lights and white. The color white is typically associated with purity and heavenly, but as the novel progresses, it is clearly shown that she is not. This is shown by how Daisy interacts with the people in the lower class.
In The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays the characters in relationships wanting relationships with others that they can’t socially have. Gatsby is in love with the idea of Daisy. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is definitely more intense than Daisy’s love for Gatsby. His love for Daisy seems tied up in an obsession with her wealth and the status she represents. Daisy has promised to wait for Gatsby, but is in love with the idea of Tom.
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.
Love is of human nature, but is it possible to love the idea of someone and not necessarily them? When grasping this topic, I think of Jay Gatsby (James Gatz). Does Gatsby truly love Daisy Buchanan? Or was he just trying to fulfill his American Dream fantasy? A fantasy full of money, lies, murder, affairs, and bootlegging.
“Boom”. George Wilson’s revolver releases a bullet that flies straight into the heart of Jay Gatsby, killing him. Seven years later, another “boom” is heard in the real world on October 29th 1929, as the stock market crashes, solidifying the death of a concept that has been a foundation of this country since Colonial times. In its purest form the American Dream is the notion that any man can earn prosperity, economic security, and, respect in their community through hard, honest work. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is often associated as being the American Dream.
Gatsby's selfish love for Daisy begins when he is stationed at camp Taylor where he meets Daisy and began to fall in love with her, until he is shipped out for the war. When the war ends he can not go back to Daisy and instead is sent to Oxford to study. When Gatsby makes a life for himself and finally returns for Daisy she had already married Tom Buchanan as she was no longer able to wait any longer for Gatsby. Gatsby could not accept that he had been too late for Daisy and wanted Daisy to tell Tom “that you never loved him” (Fitzgerald chapter 7). While it is true that Daisy loved Gatsby she also loved Tom and could not deny his love as well, Gatsby could not accept this.
Fitzgerald provides plenty of scenes in The Great Gatsby supporting the ideas whether Gatsby’s love was affectionate, obsession, or objectification. Fitzgerald shows that throughout the story, Gatsby slowly becomes more obsessed with Daisy as he draws closer and closer to be with her. By the end of the book, Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy. He only thinks about her and analyze everything in her life. Even in the beginning when the reader finally meets Gatsby, his obsession shows.
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays women in an extremely negative light. The idea Fitzgerald gives off is that women are only good for their looks and their bodies and that they should just be a sex symbol rather than actually use their heads. He treats women like objects and the male characters in the novel use women, abuse women, and throw them aside. I believe that Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle are prime examples of women in The Great Gatsby being treated poorly.
Love, a deep affection, is only complete when felt by two unique individuals. In this story Gatsby has become blinded by his affection for Daisy he does not stop to consider anything else but being with her. He has this illusion and fantasy he has longed for since a little boy in his dream. While he has obtained everything else, the fame, glory, and wealth he lacks one thing, a lover. He has his life all crafted out and Daisy was his missing piece.
The Fall of Jay Gatsby “Daisy’s husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven- a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax”(Fitzgerald 7). In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Buchanan is a wealthy man of East Egg. He had a wife named Daisy and a mistress named Myrtle. That was until his world fell apart when his wife hit his mistress while driving with her past love Gatsby. Tom was an arrogant man looking to protect his family image and to get revenge on the man who nearly ruined his life.
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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They were once in love, before the war. But, after Gatsby leaves Daisy finds a new man. A man with money that could give her anything she desired. Everything except love that is. Gatsby could give her love at the time, but not money.
The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about how the interactions between money and love have major effects on the relationships between Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby. The relationship between Tom and Daisy is built more on money rather than love, however, there is little bits of love. Daisy marries Tom because of his wealth, but throughout their relationship she does, fall in love with Tom at least once. Also, Tom uses his money to basically buy Daisy’s love showing that he wants to have love in his life. The relationship between Gatsby and Daisy is also built on wealth, but it also involves love, alike the relationship of Tom and Daisy.
They both love Daisy in their own way and do not want to lose her. Gatsby states, “Both of us loved each other all that time” (Fitzgerald 138). Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him so that they can be together, but she cannot because it would not be true. Daisy says to Gatsby, “I did love him once-but I loved you too”(Fitzgerald 140). Daisy used to love both of them but chooses Tom because she is used to life with Tom and does not change.