In this novel, Gatsby shows a series of mixed emotions towards Daisy. Some of the emotions he portrays are obsession, desperation and love. The author, F.Scott Fitzgerald, portrays Gatsby like this because he too can relate to him. What Gatsby goes through in the book, is what Fitzgerald went through in real life, but Fitzgerald’s background was slightly different from Gatsby’s. Gatsby has an obsession with Daisy.
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.
Daisy choose money over love. Despite her love for Gatsby but she married Tom. Tom finds out Gatsby background and wealth and she is affected and wants Tom again. " Tom gave a string of pearls valued at Tyree hundred and fifty thousand dollars" for a wedding gift (F. Scott Fitzgerald 77). She is now betrayed by her husband with another woman.
Unhappy Relationships Relationships are complicated. “The Great Gatsby”, where people leave each other, cheat on each other, and they lie and then they die, exemplifies this idea. Some do stay together throughout the book but in the end its not what they wanted. Fitzgeralds theme of unhappy relationships in The Great Gatsby is shped by Gatsby, Diasy, and Tom in order to convey the idea that no one ended up together happy because of everyone interfering with everyone elses relationships. Gatsby chases his dream of being with Daisy, but it was never fullfilled.
He was fearful at first because he had not seen her in five years and does not know what to expect: “He’s afraid, he’s waited so long . . . He half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night . . . But she never did” (79). Gatsby has been planning this for so long that once he found Daisy’s cousin, Nick, he immediately wants to go through with his plan of winning Daisy’s heart. When Gatsby eventually convinces Nick to invite Daisy over to his house, which is conveniently next door to Gatsby’s, Gatsby gets people to go spruce Nick’s house up for the occasion.
When you love someone, it causes us to do crazy things that we would have never had agreed to do. “Obsession: an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind. Love: an intense feeling of deep affection.” Gatsby’s love is all over the place for Daisy... or is it love? The things he has done for her, just to meet once again are extensive; impressing her with his money, buying a house across the bay for her, throwing extravagant parties.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character Daisy consistently deceives the other characters in the novel through how they appear and act. Near the beginning of the novel, Daisy acts consistently angelic, surrounded by bright lights and white. The color white is typically associated with purity and heavenly, but as the novel progresses, it is clearly shown that she is not. This is shown by how Daisy interacts with the people in the lower class.
In The Great Gatsby, isolation is in reference to each character's separation from reality. Their endless wealth and riches leads to the feeling of invincibility where nothing seems to bother them. Gatsby has a warped obsession with the past. obsession of the past leads to a future of isolation.
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that a man’s wealth is not a reflection of his worth through Daisy and Tom. Nick, the narrator, states, “a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth” (Fitzgerald 2). He feels that humane qualities are not equally distributed. Only certain people have respectable qualities just as only a few people have a lot of money.
“…He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way… [I] distinguished nothing except a single green light…that might have been the end of a dock.” (p.21, Fitzgerald) In this section of the novel Nick Caraway is coming back from spending the day with the Buchanan’s. He spots Gatsby out on his lawn looking out vehemently almost as if he is in a state of desperation.
“ “This is a terrible mistake,” he said, shaking his head from side to side, “a terrible, terrible mistake.” “You’re just embarrassed, that’s all,””(87) Gatsby is a self made man, he makes a big deal in getting Daisy to meet him “accidentally”. But when she gets there, he backs out like a child. His whole life (after meeting Daisy) was based around getting Daisy to be his, so I understand that he was nervous to see if his hard work in becoming a great person worked on her, but Gatsby should had passed his nervousness aside to talk to her, without Nick.
Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the poem, “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, both authors are in fact pointing out; don't judge someone for how they look or what they posses, because no one knows what they feel inside and what they are living. In The Great Gatsby, there are many characters whom live the American Dream, but only one best fits with the theme and that is Jay Gatsby. As the final lines of the poem get closer, it becomes more clear that the author's point is; Luxury does not fulfill someone's life. The people in town see Richard Cory with all his luxuries and wish to be in his place, “In fine, we thought that he was everything/ To make us wish that we were in his place” (Robinson 11-12).
The reflection of negative tones shows in may novels. contribute to the depressing tones created. Locations, actions and, characters also all play a role in shaping the feel of the book. For example, in The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, he establishes gloomy, wistful and foreboding tones through negative syntex illustrating to the setting of the Valley of the Ashes , Gatsby’s determination to repeat the past and Nick’s worry about Gatsby, all opposing the beautiful 1920’s.
In the story "The Great Gatsby" Nick has a favorable opinion of Jay Gatsby. In the first chapter of the book Nick states "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. " The book gives many examples of Nick thinking of Gatsby as the "Great" such as Gatsby 's smile, what Gatsby was willing to do for Daisy, and what Gatsby did for himself.
It always seems that lying is an easy way out, rather than explaining and convincing other people with honesty. Even before Gatsby appears in the novel, wild rumors circulate about him; however, surprisingly they do not affect him at all. This shows that when humans get in the habit of lying, it is hard to understand and trust them. It is difficult to know what to expect of them. In chapter eight, when Gatsby narrates to Nick the first time he meets Daisy he states that“he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself-that he was fully able to take care of her.