Eat. Sleep. Breathe. Money. Daisy. Those 5 words revolves around Gatsby’s life. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby spends every last second trying to become successful to impress Daisy since they have not together. Even after five years, Gatsby still thinks that Daisy portrays everything he wants in his life. With everything that Gatsby has done in the past couple years, like buying a house across the bay and throwing parties in hopes of her attending, clearly portrays he loves the idea of Daisy rather than Daisy, herself. Gatsby loves the idea of Daisy rather than daisy herself because he feels that time hasn’t changed anything and he adores the challenge of winning back Daisy. In society, most people believe that time had the power to heal everything, but Gatsby’s infatuation with Daisy clearly …show more content…
Throughout the book, Gatsby talks about Daisy in a way that makes it seem like it was just yesterday they were together when it was simply 5 years ago. Gatsby foolishly believes nothing has changed throughout the years when in reality everything holds to be different when Nick says, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was” (110). Having not moved on, Gatsby’s obsession with trying to recreate the past remains effective. Gatsby, being unconscious to the situation, does not realize that people change over time and Daisy does not seem to