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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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