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Analysis Of Daisy Buchannan

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This poem is about Jay Gatsby’s love for Daisy Buchannan which illustrates the desire for the success of the American Dream which, is a major theme, tests Jay through this love interest, Daisy Buchannan. For Jay Gatsby, his American Dream was the ultimate wealth and stature that he lacked in his childhood. He has put on a facade that he was old money but in reality he, “James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career” (citation). He changed his name, erasing his prior identity, he needed to start over and by creating a new persona he could become the person he wanted to. It followed by the word ‘beginning of his career’ …show more content…

Further noticing, his perspective of the American Dream changes from just materialistic wealth to an image of love with Daisy Buchannan. Jay used his money to draw Daisy’s attention with all the parties and flanting of the his money. We see that his perspective of the American Dream shifted when Fitzgerald wrote, “[Gatsby] hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes” (Citation). We see that he is falling in love with daisy. He was staring at her from across the room, when it says ‘hadn’t once ceased looking’, but what perspective does he have of her, is it the truth. He did not talk to her abundantly in these situations throughout the novel which makes us question how we can believe that he knows who she is now. People change and evolve and Gatsby seems to keep his ‘well-loved eyes’ and learn who she is now. This is an example of Gatsby trying to draw Daisy’s attention from everything else to his money, so she will always have a name in the back of his mind. Also, he reassessed the value of all of his materialistic possessions according to her response to them by reading her body language. Everything she did, the way she spoke, walked and reacted to someone impacted him in every way, we know this because it says, ‘revalued everything in his house according… to response… from her… eyes’. He sized up his whole life through the eyes of Daisy which put him in a very vulnerable

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