Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

Daisy is Dead. Gatsby is Dead. They are Both Breathing. As Charlie Brown was fond of saying, “Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that's loved by you” (Charlie Brown). The great Charlie Brown makes a wonderful point that Gatsby would think that he would surely agree with regarding his love for Daisy. Gatsby loves Daisy dearly and thinks that, just as Charlie Brown sang, she will be his happiness. There is, however, one problem. Gatsby does not love the real Daisy, he only loves his perfect image of daisy...the Daisy that does not exist. Gatsby loves the Daisy that he created. He loves a Daisy that he has made up in his mind to be the exact person that will fit all his needs and desires. Gatsby is trying to love something that

His perfect Daisy is brutally killed right in front of his eyes and all that is left is a living, breathing, Daisy. A Daisy that Gatsby did not really know. A Daisy that was far different from the one Gatsby created in his mind. The real Daisy. The true Daisy. The rotten Daisy. Daisy was not the perfect Jewel that Gatsby had imagined. In fact, Daisy was in love with two very different men. She could not make up her mind. She could not set straight her loyalties. She had always sensed that her husband was cheating, but did nothing about it. She herself was cheating on Tom, yet seemed to feel no guilt. She loved Gatsby, but turned him away for a material object...money. Infact, when she speaks, her voice is described as “full of money” (128). She chose money over love...over happiness. Furthermore, she wasn’t driving carefully, and due to this she killed Myrtle. This woman, this Daisy, is far from perfect. Far from the woman that Gatsby had imagined. Far from the Daisy that Gatsby loved. When all is said and done, Nick describes Daisy, Tom, and Jordan as a “rotten crowd” (164). This is only proved further when Daisy does not even show up at Gatsby’s funeral. Daisy is not the Daisy Gatsby had in mind. Daisy is

In shallow terms, “blue” has historically been used to describe emotions of sadness and depression. In the song “Blue Christmas” by the King of Rock and Roll, the great Elvis Presley sings, “I’ll have a Blue Christmas without you” (Presley). When he sings this phrase he is basically saying that he will be depressed, without a certain girl that he cares about on Christmas. This carries a very similar connotation as the uses of “blue” in The Great Gatsby. Towards the end of the story, things are no longer described by their magnificence or by their beauty. Rather, they are described by their calamitous and darker side. “Blue” is one of the terms used to bring on all of these negative connotations. When Nick and Gatsby are at Gatsby’s house on a morning after the horrid dinner, the surroundings are no longer described as nice. rather than the birds being described as perky or lively, they are described as “ghostly” (162). This, however, is not all. There are so many words and phrases that could have described the leaves. They could have been called by their nice autumn color, or by their texture, or by their placement on the ground, but they were not. The leaves were described as “blue” (162). The same color that describes depression. Additionally, when Michaelis was describing the outside and how it was bright enough to turn off the lights, he does not describe it as