Gatsby Daisy Quotes

Daisy is also careless with her relationships after discovering of Gatsby’s existence nearby; as she bounces between Gatsby and Tom claiming to love both until a conflict is reached and she is forced to choose. “But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise to ever carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.” (135). As this quote alludes to, Daisy is smart, but

It is not until that she realizes that he was in fact serious that she becomes somewhat distraught with him for rejecting her as she is. As the story progresses the audience can relate and sympathize with Georgiana as she is essentially the victim of her husband’s judgement and shock of what he claims to the birthmark to act as an ailment of her beauty. Aylmer goes on to calling her near perfection were it not for the birthmark, however as many would agree that in real life there is no such thing as perfection. Georgiana progressively begins to see her husband change and show his true nature. He becomes angry with her and does not trust her, leading to Georgiana essentially losing

Daisy cries because the man who once looked at her like she was a person and indispensable is now trying to buy her, objectifying her once more in a way she never expected him to. Daisy loves the beauty of the shirts but hates what they mean for her. She has exhausted her ability to rebel against a world that expects her to be demeaned in this way, and cannot articulate her feelings. She justifies her tears with the values of materialism that have been forced upon her, seeing how she is treated as an object herself. The objectification of Daisy is complete when Gatsby tells Nick, “Her voice is full of money,” (127) towards the end of the novel.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie merely wants to love someone, but that choice is ripped out of her hands when Nanny makes her marry someone she does not love. This marriage as well as another one does not work out because she never learns to love them. Finally, she meets Tea Cake, and falls madly in love with him even though he is a lot younger than she is. He is someone that she can truly love while still being able to be herself. They go through their struggles as well and sadly, he dies by the end of the novel.

In the story “The Dead” we realize that Gabriel’s marriage is horrible because the author uses imagery by comparing his marriage to “a petticoat string dangled on the floor.” The concept of the story is time. Some things that Gabriel says to show the reader that the concept is time is he says things like: “She had had that romance”, “Yes, yes that would happen very soon”, “ In the time of her first girlish beauty, a strange friendly pity for her entered his soul.” All these quotes says that Gabriel is tired of thinking in the past and he hates it. He looks into the future for guidance to become a better individual and a better husband. Imagery is widely used in this story. Imagery is used in this story to represent how traumatic

He is portrayed to have no self control and parties all the time. His love interest with Jordan Baker is also cut out of the entire movie.Daisy in the book is a girl known for loving the materialistic part of guys. Daisy is a shallow girl who only likes guys for their money, she is in Gatsby’s house and starts crying because she had never seen such beautiful shirts. She is sad she doesn’t have Gatsby’s wealth and doesn’t want to miss her opportunity on it. In the movie, Daisy is seen as weak and needy, she also is more romantic with Gatsby.

Although she loves both of them, her indecision stems from her struggle between what she wants and what society expects. She wants to marry Gatsby, for love and whatever it entails. Unfortunately, society wants her to marry Tom for everything but. She has loved both individually, Gatsby right away and Tom gradually, but when forced to choose she feels torn and can 't decide. While Tom gloats in the background, she explains woefully to Gatsby, "Oh, you want too much… I love you now—isn 't that enough?

In “A Mother’s Day Kiss-Off” Bennetts tells of all her stories of how poorly women are treated, feeling like society should treat them the same as men. She explains “Mother’s Day would be an even happier occasion if it didn’t leave so many women feeling that their most important concerns had been kissed off by a greeting card” (44). In “The Myth Of Co-Parenting,” Edelman states “It began to make me spitting mad, the way the daily duties of parenting and home ownership started to rest entirely on me” (53). Edelman is expressing her anger that her husband started to not care anymore, while Bennetts is angry that people push mother’s troubles aside with a piece of paper. Edelman also shows in her article that she is angry by telling that she took her husband's credit card on day for revenge.

When she is there, Dee is exposed to the high end life and develops herself into what she considers a more sophisticated person. Mama however, think she has turned into a selfish, egotistical snob who has a false representation of their true heritage. Dee insists on taking the quilts made from remnants of their grandma’s dresses, even though Mama had already promised them to Maggie. Mortified by the thought of Maggie turning them into rags by everyday use, Dee argues that the quilts need to be put on display. In her mind, Mama thinks back to the time when she had offered the quilts to her; “I didn’t want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college.

Emily Dickinson is a depressed romantic. She falls in love with men she cannot have and her family constantly revised her poems; making them lose their meanings. In “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” she says “The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind-” (1,7-8). Dickinson has had her heart broken so many times by men and it was always delivered quickly and cruelly. Dickinson might have felt that if it was broken to her more gently and kindly she might not feel this way and feel so blindsided by her unrequited love.