What Does Daisy Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Is His Love Yellow or Gold? Being in love with someone is defined as having a warm passionate attachment or deep affection for a person. Being in love with the idea of someone is defined as being in love with who we think that person is or who we want them to be. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby has been in love with Daisy Buchanan for five years. He has created an image in his mind of what he imagines his life will be like when they end up together. Gatsby may be stuck in his past but, he is in love with Daisy as a person and not just the idea of who she may be.

First of all, Daisy and Gatsby met when they were five years younger than they were in the present story line. In the novel, Jordan Baker is telling

In the novel, Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy over for tea, so he can see her again. This shows the initiative that Gatsby is taking to see the girl he loves again. Nick goes through with the plan and invites Daisy to tea. The novel says, “We haven’t met for many years,” said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. “Five years next November.” The automatic quality of Gatsby’s answer set us all back at least another minute.”(Fitzgerald 87). Gatsby as dedicated most of his life to the hope of being with Daisy, this quote makes it clear that Gatsby takes the initiative of remembering the exact date that he and Daisy last saw each other. After the tea is over, Gatsby invited Daisy and Nick to take a tour of his house. “He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel...Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.”(Fitzgerald 92). Gatsby is showing his house and clothes to Daisy and Nick, he is doing this to show Daisy his wealth. When he is doing this she begins to cry because she realizes that she could have been in love and had all of the material things that she desires. After this, Gatsby awakens Klipspringer who is the piano player at his house. Gatsby and Daisy begin to dance and Nick says, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams--not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”(Fitzgerald 95-96). Gatsby’s