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Compare And Contrast Gatsby And Daisy Buchanan

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Two Faced Lovers

Throughout the novel of The Great Gatsby, it is shown that Jay Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan, but it is not actually love that he feels. Does Gatsby love Daisy, or does he just love the idea of her? Gatsby is a rich man that always gets what he wants. He lives in a perfect world, but he feels like there was something missing. That thing was Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby states that he once loved, loves, and will always love Daisy Buchanan, but there is proof that his love is just a fantasy. Gatsby certainly did love Daisy at one time, but that feeling is no longer existant. She was not able to be reached when they were first in love. It was just Gatsby’s fantasy to be with her. On the other hand, Gatsby creates this love for Daisy just as he brings into existence his made up, pretend life. She is an essential part to Gatsby’s dream for success. Gatsby became so desperate for Daisy that "He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths[…] so he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden"(63). He bought his house just right across the river from Daisy and Gatsby says that he did it all for her. …show more content…

If Daisy chose another man before Gatsby, then surely their love for each other was not that strong. Also, the other man that Daisy replaced Gatsby with was successful and wealthy, exactly what Jay wanted to be. Gatsby was found out to be replaced by his future self. He is Gatsby’s dream of who he wanted to become. However, Gatsby, jealous of Tom, tries to make Daisy tell Tom that she never loved him. He wanted “... to fix everything just the way it was before”(110). Nick tries to convince him that he “Can't repeat the past”(110). Nevertheless, Gatsby would not resist to completing his perfect world. All out of jealousy Gatsby wanted to ruin the relationship the Buchanans

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“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but thats no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our farther…. And one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (180). Jay Gatsby wants nothing more than to relive infatuation with the one and only Daisy.

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Both tom Buchanan and George Wilson are two vastly different people but are alike in the most unusual ways. They are the only two characters in the book to use violence; both say they “love” Myrtle and both fight for their women only when they are about to lose them. That is where the similarities cease. Tom is the man who cheats on his wife daisy, with George 's wife Myrtle, and then proceeds to slap her when she would not stop speaking Daisy 's name. George, on the other hand, is a passionate and faithful husband to Myrtle and is crushed to learn that she was cheating on him so much so that he assassinates Gatsby whom he thinks was cheating with myrtle and murdered to get rid of the evidence of his adultery.

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