Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, a man, Jay Gatsby, loves Daisy and dreams of her loving him back. Though Gatsby does not have much justification for believing Daisy will leave her husband, he continues to hold onto his dream. The biggest detrimental blow to his dream transpires during Gatsby's confrontation with Tom when Daisy tells Gatsby that she actually loves Tom and does not plan on leaving him. Although Daisy is in love with Gatsby, and has an affair with him, she chooses to stay with Tom because he is wealthy and the relationship is convenient for her; additionally, because Tom reveals that Gatsby is involved in the illegal business of bootlegging. When Daisy hears this, she feels insecure about staying with Gatsby and goes back to Tom. Gatsby

Gatsby is “orchestrating his parties and displaying his wealth” to attract Daisy (Froehlich 5). Gatsby needed to be rich in order to marry Daisy and now that he is rich enough, he wants to gain her attention by holding fancy parties, and fall in love with her again. Nick says that “[Gatsby] must have felt that he had lost the old warm world” when he and Daisy used to love each other, and he “paid a high price for living too long with a single dream” which is to get her back. (Fitzgerald 161). Gatsby’s main dream after becoming rich is to fall back in love with Daisy which he was not able to fulfill because Tom’s wealth is too much in comparison to Gatsby’s love for Daisy to turn down, so she chose Tom’s money over Gatsby’s

Gatsby’s hope and dream were “nothing more than to turn back time to when he and Daisy were in love” which he ultimately failed to fulfill (Rosemary Educational Institution p.3). His dream was to be with the girl he loves the most and that girl is Daisy, but she loved his money and decides to leave him after finding out that he makes his money by engaging in illegal business. The real engender of Gatsby’s death is Daisy. Nick says that “[Gatsby] must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream” (Fitzgerald 161). Gatsby’s dream was to make Daisy his own, which he failed, and the price was that he had to do shady business which could have gotten him killed. Without Tom and Gatsby’s money, their relationship with Daisy would be tenuous, or they would not have a relationship at all. Money is the thread that keeps them