Does Fitzgerald Present Daisy's Power In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about a young, self-made man, Gatsby, who tries to win the heart of a past love, named Daisy. Jay Gatsby does everything in his power to get Daisy back even though she is married to Tom Buchanan, an extremely wealthy man, and share a child with him. Gatsby is blinded by love and cannot see that Daisy will not leave her husband, extreme wealth and status quo. Thus blinded, Gatsby takes extreme measures such as hosting lavish, expensive parties every week. He throws these flamboyant parties hoping that Daisy will somehow hear about them and wander into one.
The view of the party is seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the narrator in the novel. The party is prepared elaborately, with juice from

Nick realizes what Gatsby’s motives were in spending extreme amounts of money every weekend. He realizes that “it had not been just the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor” (Fitzgerald, 67). At Gatsby's and Daisy’s meeting, Gatsby invites her to his next party. Daisy agrees, and comes with Tom. Gatsby sees this as an opportunity to showcase his immense wealth but Tom and Daisy are not so fond of the party. Brian Sutton states the Daisy “is "offended" and "appalled" by the party's garish, drunken-Broadway atmosphere and joins her husband in a mutual distaste for Gatsby's world”. Tom infers his hatred toward Gatsby when he mentions to Daisy that his wealth comes from bootlegging. Gatsby’s way of displaying of his wealth backfires and is ironic because the sole reason for the parties was to bring Daisy’s attention. After this incident, Gatsby stops hosting parties. There was no reason to because he got the attention of Daisy. At one point in the novel, Gatsby invites Daisy over and he shows her his pile of expensive shirts. One researcher describes this point as evidence as his own