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Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

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The reunion of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan is an important event in the story, that changes the course of the story towards its unfortunate end. Because of their meeting, old feelings rise to the surface and the two start seeing each other even more, causing Jay Gatsby to become more convinced that Daisy would leave her husband, Tom, to be with him instead. Events spiral into the unfortunate gathering of Nick Carraway, Jordan Baker, Daisy and Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Revelations lead to anger and anger leads to the demise of Myrtle Wilson and this to the untimely end of Gatsby.

Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom Buchanan are, curiously, quite different. Whereas Daisy is an easy-going, carefree individual, Tom boasts a more serious, …show more content…

After reading the letter, the two start to meet, which is clearly an act of rebellion against the party. In these meetings more of their and the Party's nature is uncovered, which is an essential part of the story. Eventually, the secret meetings lead to their affair being discovered by the actual Thought Police, and Winston and Julia are taken away for torture and brainwashing and after that the book comes to its …show more content…

Both of them are rebellious individuals, who despise the Party. This is one of their biggest similarities, but their thoughts and methods are drastically different. Whereas Winston is a bit cowardly and inexperienced in being rebellious, Julia keeps up her act of being a good person loving the Party while doing all kinds of "forbidden" acts of rebellion. Their backgrounds give them different perspectives. Winston was alive before the Party took over, but Julia had grown with the Party being the dominant power and thus she doesn't really care about the past in the way Winston does. Sometimes it feels as if Julia only cares about being close to Winston, which creates an interesting setting for Winston to examine his feelings.
The point where the story takes an important turn is definitely when Elizabeth Bennet receives Mr Darcy's letter, which explains major things about Wickham, Mr Darcy's involvement in sabotaging the relationship of Jane and Mr Bingley, and most importantly, his own feelings towards Elizabeth and how unfortunately prejudiced Elizabeth has been. By reading the letter, Elizabeth realizes her own faults and how she had been prejudiced against Mr Darcy. Eventually, since Elizabeth now thinks of Mr Darcy differently, love blossoms between the two thus ending the

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