Daisy's Mistakes In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

People make mistakes in their life which they regret and try to make up for throughout life. What if someone got to go back and find a soulmate even if she has changed over time. In The Great Gatsby, one of the main characters is Jay Gatsby. He was once in the war and met a girl named Daisy who he became in love with. They couldn’t be together because Jay had to leave. Five years later Daisy’s cousin moves in next door to Jay. Him doing this makes the story take turns and wild secrets are found out. Gatsby changed everything he was just for Daisy. He bought the most extravagant material and objects hoping she would like them. Him caring about the past more than the present makes things end deadly. The past can make hurt

Gatsby moved across the bay just to live close to Daisy. He threw parties and bought all these nice things just to impress Daisy. When Nick says “Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small, reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise.I don’t think he ever really believed in its existence before” it shows how Gatsby had this perfect life in his mind. In this life Daisy probably had a family with Gatsby not Tom. When Gatsby is looking at the child it’s not because he thinks the child is cute or admiring her. It’s because in his mind Daisy never loved Tom. Meaning if she didn’t love Tom why would she have a child with him? This scene really supports the statement that being stuck or trying to change the past could hurt people in many ways. This shows that he is very obsessed with making up for the past. Seeing the child made Jay Gatsby realize that the past was still the past and that for a fact Daisy had moved

Throughout the book, Gatsby does wild things just to show Daisy how amazing he is or how much he “loved her”. While doing this he proceeded to have Daisy drive his car and accidently hit Myrtle, scare Daisy, loses her in the end, and Wilson ends up shooting him in the back. He shows that he doesn’t care about himself. He cares about living in this dream world where Daisy is his and live a rich lifestyle. When in reality, Gatsby never would have gotten Daisy. She may not have said it but she did love her husband. Gatsby should have noticed it from the start. Gatsby literally dies just because of this idea of being with Daisy. If he would have been focused on the present instead of the past then maybe Gatsby would have lived next to Nick for awhile. It is like a story that has been heard. This boy liked a girl so much in his class that he never did anything but focus on her. When finals came he was failing that class so bad he’d have to retake it. It is the same situation with Gatsby. But instead of failing in class he failed in his own