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Daisy's Pursuit In The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby: The Pursuit of Starting in roughly the 1920’s with the creation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. We start to see the uprising of the Jazz age and the introduction of new Ideologies such as the acceptance of a woman’s right to be considered a flappers girl and their decision to break-apart from the traditional role of a protestant. Also, during this time period crime rates were rising because of things such as prohibition. So in order to capture the wild phenomenon of the 1920’s, Fitzgerald uses the novel The Great Gatsby as a narration of Nick Carraway to talk about a young man, Jay Gatsby who is association with Meyer Wolfshine in the bootlegging industry to find fortune. He believes that fortune and the …show more content…

When Gatsby was enlisted in the war, Daisy told him she would wait for his return. In his absence, however, Daisy entered a new relationship with a man named Tom Buchunan. Once Gatsby had returned from the war they met again. Daisy and Buchunan now live in East Egg. Buchunan is known as a wealthy family man who was born into riches. Gatsby is now living in West Egg, the city that had been divided from East Egg by water. West Egg is known for the families that have worked for their money and their citizens who tend to be less snobby and flamboyant. Gatsby has never given up on his dream to be with Daisy, especially now that only a body of water is between them. “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way… I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light”(Fitzgerald.21). This is Gatsby reaching towards Daisy, he is still trying to grip on to the past that they had. However, Gatsby is scared to find her and talk to her. He would try to reel her in through holding extravagant parties. “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited”(Fitzgerald.41). He threw huge parties in attempt to lure her over to his house

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First, Daisy and Nick join Gatsby at Gatsby’s house next door where her and Gatsby get some time to recollect themselves, “He 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. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs,” (pg.112). First, in this part of the book is when Gatsby’s attitude throughout the rest of the story completely changes; therefore, the whole world seems to disappear causing him to fall for Daisy. Then, he doesn’t even compensate the rest of his house and how glorious it is due to Daisy taking over his whole entire attention span; this almost caused him to fall down his own stairs.

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In reality, previous accomplishments creates more opportunities and advantages for the achiever, shortens the path to a greater aspiration, to be exact, they do not enable the achiever to reach higher goal completely. Gatsby’s wealth increases his chance in “accidentally” meeting Daisy again, “he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night” (Fitzgerald 79). That “Gatsby bought the house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78) suggests that he uses his previous accomplishment as the main stimulator in their relationship, the house across Daisy so she can easily sees it, the parties for a day she might wander into, all of them planned out for a “chance meeting” between them. Gatsby knows he cannot invite

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But he waited until the girl he longed for and desired settled down so he could be close enough to grasp her. Gatsby also throws parties every weekend, which cost money to host. Nick was introduced to loads of different people, who had high social status. This proves to us that Gatsby’s social status was high enough that other popular people would show up. This proves to us that Gatsby was not after Daisy for

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Gatsby is extremely eager to start a life with Daisy and does several things to try to speed up the process – he works hard to be able to own a huge mansion and throw big parties, he gets Nick to re-introduce Daisy to him , he gives Daisy a tour of his house in hopes of her loving it enough to imagine living with him,

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The Great Gatsby was written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. The novel, set place in 1922, is a flashback of Nick Carraway’s experiences during his summer in West Egg, New York. Recently, Gatsby has had one of his grand parties and Nick has attended a lunch with Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim. During the 1920’s the pursuit for wealth and recognition in order to reach a certain status corrupted people and had them make unacceptable decisions. Throughout the novel the concept of classes in society is prevalent.

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Gatsby has much hope. For instance, as it states in the book, “‘She’s not to know about it. Gatsby doesn’t want her to know. You’re just supposed to invite her to tea.’” (79).

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When Gatsby first moved in over at the east egg he started having wild parties in hopes of Daisy wondering into one of them. He also started trying to see her more after her and Tom came to one of the parties. When Daisy finally came to one of the parties she realized that she had married the wrong guy. “As I went over to say good-bye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years(Fitzgerald pg.)!”

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The 1920s, also known as the Jazz Age, is a time of moral decrease and happiness for Americans. The Great Gatsby is told from the view of Nick Carraway, a young man from the Midwest who moves to the East to make his fortune. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s through corruption, greed, and the attainment of wealth through Carraway’s story. Fitzgerald accurately portrays the 1920s in The Great Gatsby through corruption by using the characters Jay Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim in the novel.

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In The Great Gatsby, Daisy’s betrayal takes place in order for Daisy to have stability in her life with Tom. Since their first encounter five years earlier, Daisy has led Gatsby to believe that she is in love with him and that they were going to be together, “they were so engrossed in each other that she didn’t see me until I (Nick) was five feet away,” (Fitzgerald 48) Although at first, their encounter is described as “a terrible mistake,” (Fitzgerald 94) her attitude towards Gatsby changes when she enters his immense mansion and sees the vastness of Gatsby’s wealth, “That huge place there?’ She cried pointing, (Fitzgerald 99) Gatsby then realizes that he has been betrayed when he accuses Daisy of never loving Tom, only to discover that Daisy

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He spends years building his career, money, and materials. He gets a huge mansion where he throws large parties. Gatsby hopes to attract Daisy to a party to reunite with her. Gatsby is so infatuated with the past romance with Daisy to the point where he basically loses himself and any relationships with anyone else. His parties are mindless, he doesn’t go out and join anyone and he doesn’t know anyone.

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Despite his poor upbringing Gatsby falls in love with Daisy, a young woman from an affluent background. Her parents do not approve of their relationship, but Gatsby still promises to remain faithful to her when he leaves to fight in the war. While he is away, Daisy meets another man named Tom Buchanan whom she later marries. Although Daisy is married to another man, Mr. Gatsby refrains from entering into a relationship with any other women, and always keeps Daisy in his heart. Tom has many mistresses while he is married to Daisy, which further complicates the situation.

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Daisy Buchannan, a married woman, was Gatsby’s lover before he went off to war. Gatsby expresses that he wanted to marry her, but was too poor, and wanted her to wait for him to make something

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Gatsby was born in a poor family in the twentieth century. At that time, American dream was a very popular word among the young men just like Gatsby. Its core meaning explaining that anyone in the United States, so long as with enough effort, can enjoy a better life. Because of the deep influence affected by it, he had a great ambition to win wealth and position. He thought that, as long as making arduous efforts and struggling for them, he would achieve his dream definitely.

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The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and narrated by a man named Nick Carraway. This novel was written with the intent of showing the readers how morally corrupt the 1920s were. Throughout the novel, characters abandon their moral values for a materialistic lifestyle. The novel depicts a great picture of the roles men and women played in the 1920s. Even with the changing roles of men and women, they continued to rely heavily on whom they were married to and what social class they belonged to.

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