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Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” Garrison Keillor, has been called, "One of the most perceptive and witty commentators about Midwestern life" by Randall Balmer in Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Gatsby shows how blind he is when it comes to Daisy. In the novel Gatsby shows the love and compassion that he has for Daisy. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Gatsby reveals the compassion he has for Daisy throughout the choices that he makes. Buying a house across the bay, and throwing big parties, shows the hope that Gatsby has for him and Daisy. Gatsby will never let go of the idea of him and Daisy together forever. Gatsby wants to be with Daisy so,”’ Gatsby bought the mansion so that Daisy …show more content…

Gatsby does not know it, but by taking the blame for the death of Myrtle, he is choosing his own death. While in Nick’s house Daisy remarks, we have not met for many years, Gatsby adds,”’ Five years next November’”(Fitzgerald 87). Nick invited Daisy over for tea, as a part of Gatsby’s plan. Once everyone gets there they all start talking, Daisy says they have not seen each other in so long. Gatsby knows the exact date since the last time that they have seen each other. Once denying the offer to come inside the Buchanans house, Nick explains,”’I had not gone twenty yards when I heard my name and Gatsby stepped from between two bushes into the path’”(Fitzgerald 142). The night of Myrtle’s death Gatsby went to the Buchanan 's house and hid in between two bushes, so that he could watch over Daisy. By sitting outside and watching over Daisy, shows the love and compassion that he has for Daisy, so that she does not get hurt. After Myrtle’s death Nick asks was Daisy driving, Gatsby explains, “’yes’, he said after a moment,’ but of course I’ll say I was’”(Fitzgerald 143). Gatsby takes the blame for Myrtle’s death, by doing this, whether he knows or not, he is choosing his own death. By taking the blame for the death of Myrtle, Gatsby shows the hope he still has for Daisy to come back to him. Each of these quotes show Gatsby looking reality in the eye and denying it, because he is blinded by the love he has

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When Myrtle is killed by Daisy, Gatsby is quick to take the blame when Nick questions him about it. For example, Gatsby says, “Yes, but of course I’ll say I was” (Fitzgerald 143). Daisy never thanked Gatsby for taking the blame, this being a perfect example of how much of a powerful effect Daisy had over Gatsby. After Myrtle finishes her story about how she and Tom met she comes face to face with him discussing if Myrtle has any authority to bring up Daisy’s name.

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Gatsby and Myrtle were both killed in the act of following their dreams. Gatsby main factor that leaded up to his death was the fact Gatsby was passionately in love with Daisy, since he was so in love with Daisy. “You’re acting like a little boy,” I broke out impatiently. “Not only that, but you’re rude. Daisy’s sitting in there all alone.”

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When Gatsby talks to Nick about what had happened,”’Well, I tried to swing the wheel-’ He broke off, and suddenly I guessed the truth.’ Was daisy driving?’’Yes,’”(143).Nick the main character of the story finds out that daisy was driving. Daisy was driving too fast which caused her to kill myrtle. Gatsby being the gentleman that he is took the blame for the accident and

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Daisy is primarily the person at fault for Myrtle’s death, Tom also plays a role in the downfall after his mistress's death. Instead, Tom never confesses to Myrtle being his mistress and holds Gatsby accountable for her death. As for Daisy she allows Gatsby to take the fault for her mistakes and walks away with her hands clean. Following Myrtle's death comes Gatsby’s death. Rather than attending the funeral of the man she was in love with, Daisy leaves town with the man she “loved” in the past.

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Tom and Daisy are able to avoid the consequences of Myrtle’s death. After the accident George goes into a rage and to control him Tom tells him “the truth” about “who owned the car” which was Gatsby, but Tom also thinks that Gatsby “ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car” (Fitzgerald 190-191). George was ready to kill whoever Myrtle was cheating with. Tom then tells George that Gatsby owned the car that had killed Myrtle so George thinks that Myrtle was cheating on him with Gatsby, and that Gatsby killed Myrtle. Tom and Daisy then go on a vacation and leave their problems behind them for others such as Nick to deal with.

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Daisy Buchanan is merely at fault for Gatsby 's death. Daisy’s lack of self reliance and ignorance prompt her to be easily led into making bad decisions, causing her to lash out and be held responsible for the death of Gatsby. Being a women of the east egg society Daisy Buchanan has always been apart of the idea of “old money”, signifying that her whole life she has had everything given to her and she doesn 't have to rely on herself for her own self making. These factors impact her in her later life when she is faced with the consequences of Myrtle 's death. Daisy being responsible for the death of Myrtle ultimately leaves her to make the careless decision of letting Gatsby take the blame, because Daisy 's ignorance and lack of self reliance

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In addition to Tom Buchanan’s hatred for Gatsby, Tom can be labeled as responsible for Gatsby’s death as a result of Tom’s affair, his lie, and his carelessness. While Daisy did lead Gatsby on with a minor relationship, her decision arose from Tom’s unfaithful love for her as he had an affair with Myrtle Wilson. If Tom had shown Daisy undying love for her, there would not have been a reason for Daisy to have feelings for Gatsby once again. When George went out in search for Myrtle’s killer, he stopped at the Buchanan’s house. During their conversation, Tom mentions that Gatsby had been responsible for hitting Myrtle with the car and killing her.

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays women in an extremely negative light. The idea Fitzgerald gives off is that women are only good for their looks and their bodies and that they should just be a sex symbol rather than actually use their heads. He treats women like objects and the male characters in the novel use women, abuse women, and throw them aside. I believe that Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle are prime examples of women in The Great Gatsby being treated poorly.

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Gatsby uses the last five years of his life trying to achieve his one goal of obtaining Daisy as his wife and spending the rest of his life with her, but what happens to him instead is unexpected and undeserved. Jay Gatsby got shot and killed by George Wilson. Gatsby did not sleep with Myrtle, he is an honorable man and would not sleep with another man’s wife. Gatsby also did not kill Myrtle, if he did he would have stopped the car and not just kept driving. Daisy did not talk to Gatsby ever again after the accident.

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Later on in the book Gatsby describes the incident of how Myrtle Wilson was killed to Nick. He said to him, “You see, when we left New York she was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive-and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way... Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back” (pg 143). From the view of readers they do not want to blame Daisy for what happened; they all find her to be a pure and innocent person who would not kill someone. The readers’ intent is to blame Gatsby because he was in the car with Daisy at the time of the accident even though he was not the one that killed

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During chapter 8 Daisy is haunted after the fact that she killed myrtle. Nick confronts gatsby and learns that Daisy never came out of the house and nothing happened. Nick tells Gatsby he should go away, before the police trace his car, but Gatsby holds on to his dream of being with Daisy. He tells Nick the story of how they met, when he was poor, and how he was drafted into the war and had to leave her. He explains that Daisy believed they were of the same social class, and he let her believe it.

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Nick knew it was Gatsby’s yellow car that had hit Myrtle; Gatsby tells his side of the story – and how Daisy was the one behind the wheel before he took over. Gatsby said to

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This quote is significant because this is Daisy and Gatsby’s first meeting and beginning of their relations after five years. Furthermore, Daisy was emotional due to the nostalgia of her love with Gatsby. This relates to his death because if Daisy and Gatsby never had an affair, Tom and Gatsby would never have had a confrontation. Furthermore, Gatsby wouldn’t have had to drive Daisy home, thus meaning Myrtle’s death would never have occurred, meaning Gatsby would have never been shot by Wilson.

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When he buys the home the man who had been living there before him had just died. This is foreshadowing of his dream not being able to work out. Gatsby throws extravagant parties every night. The only reason he does all this is because he is hoping daisy will come one night. In the end of the novel Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him.

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Gatsby and Daisy had a relationship five years in the past, and Gatsby has not forgotten his lost love. He purchases the mansion right

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