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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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The novel,The Great Gatsby, calls the character Jay Gatsby ‘Great’. As the story proceeds, Nick Carroway explains Gatsby as only wanting one thing, Nick’s cousin Daisy. Gatsby met his flame five years prior, and has since been away at war and Daisy has since gotten married. With Daisy marrying up to ‘Old Money’ Tom Buchanan, Gatsby must do everything in his power to impress Daisy. Gatsby deals in shady businesses in order to gain as much fortune and spend that fortune on his obsession. When Daisy sees Gatsby’s house, she inquires, “[t]hat huge place there?… I love it” (90). Gatsby has made obtaining Daisy his life goal, and in doing so he obtains the title of ‘greatness’; his struggles to reach the objective has turned him to the greatest version
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