Daisy Buchanan's Money In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald a man who orders his life around one desire to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. All the money in the world would not make Jay Gatsby happy for he lived to love Daisy Buchanan and died without her love. Money isn’t the way to be fulfilled with happiness to one's life. Jay Gatsby has a plan of winning Daisy Buchanan, which is Tom Buchanan’s wife. Even though Daisy hasn’t seen Gatsby in five years, she still has a love for him deep down in her. Daisy’s more for money over love and her husband Tom inherited money from his own family which was past down …show more content…

“Narrator Nick Carraway tells the story of a summer among the wealthy and privileged; a stockbroker of limited means, Nick socializes with his cousin Daisy and her wealthy husband Tom Buchanan (with whom Nick graduated from Yale); Daisy’s girlhood friend, professional golfer Jordan Baker; and his Long Island neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a host of raucous parties in the fictitious “West Egg.” Nick, Jordan, Gatsby, and Daisy plot to have Daisy leave Tom for Gatsby. The plan is thwarted when Tom’s mistress Myrtle is killed by Gatsby’s car (driven, Nick believes, by Daisy), an event that leads her husband, Tom’s mechanic, George, to murder Gatsby. As narrator, Nick is less focused on this romance plot than on Gatsby himself and what Gatsby can teach him about his own situation. Nick has come East, he tells us at the start of the novel, to learn the bond business; later he indicates that he’s also in New York so that he may enjoy the company of men and to escape the increasing social expectations back in the Midwest, where he is being cajoled to marry. As it unfolds for Nick, Gatsby’s story his road to West Egg and to the wealth, power, and privilege he enjoys there is about coming to terms with an American social order delimited by patriarchal capitalism in which there is little possibility for authentic love or desire separate from the economic realm”(Journal of Men’s Studies page …show more content…

It takes an awkward twist on mending back together because they haven’t seen each other in five years so it was awkward for them to get back into it right away. At the party, Daisy and Gatsby have a connection that rebuilds their love for each other. Daisy husband Tom has no idea that all of this is going on but Tom isn’t the type to flaunt his belonging like how Gatsby is because he's trying to win her