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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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When you love someone, it causes us to do crazy things that we would have never had agreed to do. “Obsession: an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind. Love: an intense feeling of deep affection.” Gatsby’s love is all over the place for Daisy... or is it love? The things he has done for her, just to meet once again are extensive; impressing her with his money, buying a house across the bay for her, throwing extravagant parties. Heading back into the past seeing Gatsby point of view from their first encounter, he made it clear that Daisy had become a part of his hopes, dreams, and wealth. “So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” Daisy was completion of the incarnation for him. Gatsby has been idolizing Daisy and making his imaginations of her something that she could never live up to. Going through the second encounter meeting Daisy, it had been a …show more content…

When they met again in the future, Gatsby kept telling Daisy to leave Tom and tell him that she never loved him. He wanted Daisy to really tell him, so their lives could begin all over again and it that the situation would be in the past. The thing was, Daisy had loved both of them equally. She didn’t want to leave Tom, even though she sees what Gatsby had done for her. Gatsby keeps expecting this version of their life together, and Daisy notices it too, but what happened in the past couldn’t be changed. She informed Gatsby that she loves him, but can’t help what happened in the past because she had loved Tom as well. Gatsby was shocked because this has been his true love and Daisy can’t even decide between himself or Tom. It also show how Daisy’s love for him isn’t as extreme as Gatsby’s for

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Inconsistently with Tom and Daisy’s marriage in the novel, Daisy’s feelings towards Gatsby are much different than those with Tom. Richard Dabiel Lehan, author of, “Careless People: Daisy Fay” explains Daisy’s strong love for Gatsby when he states, “Once Daisy gave herself to Gatsby… She incarnates the dream. She embodies all the wonder and mystery that lies inherent in romantic possibility, so that to yearn for her is to romp like God through the heavens,” By interpreting this it’s pretty simple to say that Daisy wanted to be with Gatsby for life, while it appeared she wanted Tom just for a period. Lehan elaborates on the ‘romantic possibility’ throughout the article and what could have been between Daisy and Gatsby.

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In the book, Tom says, “And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart, I love her all the time” (Fitgerald 131). Their relationship isn’t close perfect and they both know that, but it fills them both with an odd sense of comfort. This sense of comfort is what causes Daisy to stay with him; therefore, she feels that if she leaves him she won’t feel that same comfort. Also, when Gatsby would plan things to do with Daisy, she usually did not act like it was as big of a deal as Gatsby acted.

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Daisy was a powerful woman in the book The Great Gatsby. With her loud, beautiful voice. She always was getting men to look her way. Even though she was ditzy, she was a influential person in the 1920's. Daisy was a flirt and could never be with just one man.

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When Gatsby and Daisy started seeing each other again, Gatsby knew what he wanted next “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” (Fitzgerald 101). He wants Daisy to

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Even though Daisy was in loved with Gatsby before she was with Tom, she still chose to marry Tom because Gatsby took to long to come back. When Daisy started seeing Gatsby again, she realized that she should have waited for Gatsby to return so they could be together. When Tom figures out that his wife was seeing Gatsby he challenged Gatsby’s claim for Daisy. Gatsby and Tom argued over this situation and Gatsby’s plan was for Daisy to tell Tom that they were never in love and that she always loved Gatsby. In chapter 7 of the novel, Daisy says to Gatsby, “‘Oh, you want too much!’

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He wants everything to be perfect as if the arrangement was not planned at all and just a coincidence. Gatsby is so fixated with Daisy to the point that he has all these great parties to hopefully see her one day. Not only this, but he made it his priority to find someone who is friends with Daisy so he drags them into his plan. Gatsby’s dedication to his tactics is unhealthy since he has not moved on and thinks that Daisy is his true love.

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He loves her deeply and is willing to do anything to win her back, even though she is already married. However, their relationship is ultimately doomed because Daisy is not the person Gatsby remembers, she has changed a lot, and she is not capable of loving him in the way he wants. Gatsby's love for Daisy is also a reflection of his longing for the past and his inability to accept the present and not being able to let go of the

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Daisy’s love for both of these men was her weakness, but her love also became Gatsby’s weakness as well. After years of loving this woman, Gatsby is no longer able to accept the fact that the past is past, and it must remain there, weakening him and his ability to see situations clearly. When Gatsby first meets Daisy after their years apart, he is fearful of what could or could not occur, even stating that their meeting is “a terrible mistake”(87). When he first tries to relive the past, he internally realized that it is impossible, and with that realization, he tries to back out of the meeting. At the same time though, Gatsby, though aware of his futile pursuit, continues on the path that will lead to his destruction, eventually letting himself

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby goes the extra mile to gain the “love of his life,” which I believe is for the American Dream he had never fully experienced. When deciding Gatsby’s intentions with Daisy, it is important to take in Gatsby’s view of her as a person, why he wants to be with her so badly, and his experience with healthy love. Ultimately, I believe, Jay Gatsby was not in love with Daisy; instead he

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It’s not like Daisy never loved Tom. She did. She just loved Gatsby more. But sadly no one had heard from Gatsby for weeks. Because of that she married Tom.

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In F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, the rich and the poor lived privileged lives but were separated between new and old money and also the rich and the poor. These rich people always showed off their wealth and power by simply living their lives. These very privileged people seemed to live different lives from others which was easily perceived by the lower class and the readers. Daisy Buchanan displays these characteristics which is clearly evident.      

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Well, the love runs very deep and never falters in him, and reunion of Gatsby and Daisy has rekindled the love, after all these countless odds that he defeated extraordinarily. But, one of the last two things about the dark side of Gatsby is the attempt to break the marriage of Daisy and her husband Tom. Yes, in the confrontational scene, Gatsby demands that Daisy admits that she never, ever loved Tom at all, but, the result was not expected by Gatsby. “I did love [Tom] once,” says Daisy, “but I loved you too.”

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Gatsby is obsessively infatuated with a woman named Daisy. He and Daisy fell for each other one summer five years prior to the setting of the novel. The two were described by Jordan as “engrossed in each other” (74) that summer – but with Gatsby going off to war, the two lost touch and Daisy married Tom. Ever since those times they spent together years ago, Gatsby’s mind has become one with a limitless capacity to create fantasies about Daisy that never live up to the reality before him. The first time he kissed Daisy, he “forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath” (110).

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A tragic hero is defined as a literary character who makes an judgement error that inevitably leads to his/her destruction. These criterias categorize Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. Gatsby's tragic flaw lies within his inability to realize that the real and the ideal cannot coexist. His false perception of certain people of ideas lead him to his moral downfall and eventual demise. Gatsby's idealism distorts his perception of Daisy.

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“She might have loved him for just a minute when they were first married-and loved me more even then.” (152). No matter what he did, Daisy still stayed with Tom, and he was not satisfied with how Daisy was now opposed to then. He believed that he could come in and take Daisy back and everything would be just as it was, but instead it was a self-fought fight, and it was not the outcome he had hoped for. Gatsby wished to recapture a relationship with Daisy from the past, but now she was someone a little different mentally and emotionally.

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