The Great Gatsby Daisy

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‘The Great Gatsby’ was talking a story, that a young millionaire, Gatsby, want to marry Nick’s cousion, Daisy. Gatsby was Daisy’s lover, but they did not see each other for five years. In this five years, Daisy married to another rich man, Tom. When Gatsby came back, he has had a hard choice---show his love to Daisy or hide the love in the heart. In the final, he showed his love and let everybody knew it, Daisy’s husband was very angry and let Gatsby instead Daisy’s crime. Gatsby was dead in the end by Mr. Willison. This story show the reader that at that time people loves money and always dream some impossible things. The book was not so popular at that time because the story show the environment and atmosphere very clearly. Most …show more content…

But in the writer’s mind, Gatsby was a totally different from other person. “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him…… No - Gatsby turned out all right at the end; It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”(Chapter1.) This sentence shows readers the society at that time. It was a shamed, unfounded and missing world. People were always worry about money and power. “I said,’ I am glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool -- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’”(Chaper 1.) This sentence show the reader the society was very dark at that time. Alought Daisy is silly in the story, she still can understand it was very hard for a woman or a girl live in the society. That’s why in the end of the book she can not wait Gatsby came back. All the people love money more than a person, so this is the reason when the Gatsby came back he have the party everyday at his house, he wanted to attract …show more content…

But both of them understand that Daisy’s love is money. They treat themselves. “‘Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now.’ ‘No,’ said Gatsby, shaking his head. ‘She does, thought. The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and dosen’t know what she’s doing.’ He nodded sagely. ‘And what’s more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.’”(Chapter7.) This sentence is about Gatsby showed love to Daisy and hope everybody understand which kind of affection he had. Gatsby wanted to let Daisy tell Tom she never loved him but loved him. “He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only his hand wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But is was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”(Chapter 8.) This sentence show Gatsby to Daisy’s love, he and Tom both of them have already know that Daisy only loved money but they still did not want to give up Daisy. This movement showed that people at that time were very hypocritical, they only admit things that is right in their

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