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Examples Of Daisy's Relationship In The Great Gatsby

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Another reason why Gatsby's relationship is unhealthy, is because he is head over heels in love with Daisy. Gatsby would go to the ends of the earth to appease daisy, going as far as taking a bullet for her in the end of chapter 8. Up until this point Gatsby's relationship with daisy is rather one sided, with him doing all the work to maintain the love they once felt for each other. It is only later that he realizes this, standing affront his house talking with Nick. Repeatedly we see Daisy neglecting even shunning Gatsby's love and yet he remains faithful to her, a woman that has yet to return the feeling. Is impossible to say that a relationship where the two partners label themselves as different things is that of a healthy one. Whereas Gatsby genuinely cares about Daisy and has thought about nothing but her for the last 5 years; Daisy is caught between her feelings for Tom and Gatsby, unable to decide between them. …show more content…

Another issue is that a partial amount of Gatsby's infatuation can be acquitted to the idea of Daisy rather than person herself. Gatsby equates his love for Daisy with the wealth of her surroundings. “Gatsby's, dream is established here:” States Gary Scrimgeour, “A combination of beauty, love, money, and success.” (Scrimgeour, 2). The conflation of all these ideas heightens his infatuation with Daisy. He falls in love with her because they are young and she's beautiful; but his love increases as he builds this idea of her in his mind that her beauty is inherently connected to her wealthy status. Thus, his initiative to become rich was part of his effort of living up to this conception he had of Daisy. In Gatsby’s mind, he legitimately loves her but truthfully a part of him is only infatuated with the idea of her. In this respect Daisy is not the person he believes her to be, only because in his mind, she is an impossibly perfect girl frozen in the

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When he met Daisy in Louisville, a beautiful girl living in a beautiful house pursued by many other men who found her most desirable, she became the physical embodiment of his dreams. Fitzgerald wrote that whan gatsby Daisy, “the incarnation was complete” (Fitzgerald 117). Gatsby did not really love Daisy, he hardly knew her. He loved what she represented to him, and he loved who he was while he was with her. Gatsby became more fascinated with the idyll of love in his pursuit of Daisy, there is little between both of them that could constitute a real foundation for an authentic relationship.

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Gatsby’s love for Daisy could even be described as his love for the idea of having Daisy, saving his love from Tom who doesn’t fit in his plan of being with Daisy. This is still not to discredit his hope as he “believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year” (Fitzgerald 138) as he grasps toward this enchanted light which represents hope. The hope of reaching is dreams and was at the end of Daisy’s dock. Tragically Gatsby died as someone who was not liked and maybe even despised by others and disregarded despite his

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It, at least, seems that way. His love for her could be perceived as a strong lust or sort of an obsession with her and her popularity. After so many years of thinking something, it becomes impossible to think any other way. That is the situation occurring here. Gatsby only thinks he loves Daisy, and is more in love with the idea that he has Daisy to himself.

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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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By attracting Daisy, “Gatsby sees the potential for future happiness, acceptance, and the resumption of a stalled love” (Heise 58). Gatsby also attempts to remove Daisy’s husband, Tom, by arguing that Daisy has never loved

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Despite Daisy’s clear nonchalance towards Gatsby’s feelings Gatsby still felt as if Daisy loved him, why else would he take the blame for something so massive, he wouldn’t have done that for just a friend. Daisy continues to deceive Gatsby because she knows that he will do whatever she wants, This connects to the entire book because Daisy is an overall deceitful woman, and the book as a whole portrays woman as unfaithful, such as Myrtle who cheats on her husband to move up in social

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Meanwhile Daisy and Tom were living their lives like a king and queen and by mid- way through the book you can clearly realize that Daisy would never leave her king (Tom). Daisy lived her life out comfortably and she knew who could forever provided for her and she would never ever leave that type of comfort. Even though Tom has been rude and uncaring for most of his life to Daisy not to mention the fact that had his own mistress, it did not matter to Daisy she was not going to change for nothing. The only reason Gatsby and Daisy had a relationship with Gatsby was not because of the fact that she still had feelings for him not at all, this was because she was bored with her life and she needed some excitement, of course her child with Tom was not exciting enough for the couple so naturally they both went their separate ways but only for a while. With this no one would ever bat an eye if they saw Daisy with broom and a

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Everyone makes friends differently, everyone looks for different kinds of friends, and everyone feels the need to have friends. The characterization and the interaction of the characters is very dynamic, and is all seen through the main character Nick Carraway. Nick and Gatsby build a very powerful relationship based on companionship and love. The basis for the relationships of the characters in the Great Gatsby are a symbolism for the idea of self-worth and love. The way the relationship between Tom and Daisy is another example of how Fitzgerald will use characterization to show how the foundation of the relationships affect the relationship.

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Gatsby’s “Greatness” Greatness is showed by the choices we make in life. From how we see the circumstances and how we react to them. Gatsby is not as great of a man as Nick claims that he is. Gatsby makes foolish, childish and delusional decisions and not at all great.

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Gatsby says “Her voice was full of money.” This shows that he associated his love with Daisy to his pursuit of wealth and power. He wants Daisy because of the wealth that she represents. Gatsby wanted Daisy more than anything else. He could not move on.

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In the book The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald portrays and image of love versus infatuation. The relationships between the characters shows the struggle of an emotional connection in a world driven by societal pressures and money. Gatsby’s and Daisy’s relationship with each other is intertwined with each other’s love and lust, and is complicated with their other relationships, such as Daisy’s and Tom’s marriage. Gatsby is the “fool” in love throughout this whole endeavor and his week with Daisy, because of his constant search for love to fill the void in his life that no amount of success can. Gatsby’s complete infatuation with Daisy started out with them meeting five years back, and surfaced into a love affair.

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Gatsby falls in love with Daisy the first minute he meets her and never stops loving her even though she has obviously moved on. Gatsby does everything he can to be closer to her like buying “that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78). Gatsby knows that if he can get the girl of his dreams he will not feel lonely anymore. " He talked a lot about the past… 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” (87).

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In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzerald expresses a negative view of the 1920's and the American Dream. He does this using the characters, setting, and symbolism. One character Fitzgerald uses to show his view of the 1920s is Nick. Nick doesn't have much of an effect on the story, he just observes everything as it happens and makes silent judgements of those around him. The reader experiences the story through his eyes and sees the world the way Nick perceives it.

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Throughout the book, Gatsby wants their relationship to work, but he mainly uses money to impress Daisy. Gatsby really loves Daisy because he will not stop trying to get her and Daisy also feels the same way about Gatsby because she shows her true self. However, on a closer examination, it becomes clear, that both Tom and Gatsby’s relationships with Daisy are based on money than love because money can lead to a destruction of love. However, both of their relationships with Daisy involve love proving

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Even Gatsby who loved Daisy elevated her status because of her wealth. This tells the reader that Gatsby viewed Daisy as another status symbol he wanted to acquire. This is evidence, again, that the male American Dream was based around wealth and objects, including women. Throughout the novel, the reader is lead to believe that Gatsby is one of the only men who respects women. His love for Daisy is demonstrated, yet we begin to see that he didn’t just love Daisy for Daisy, but for the status she brings him.

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