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Examples Of Quotes In The Great Gatsby

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Katie Newell
Honors English
Mr. LaChimia
May 16th 2023
Gatsby’s Intentions

The story of hot shot Gatsby focuses on the journey of Gatsby trying to repeat the past and rekindle the flame between him and socialight Daisy Bucchian. He had been so smitten with her that once they had separated he devoted his entire life climbing the rungs of the social ladder to get her back. Gatsby takes the genuine love he and her once shared and obsessed over it. This is why I believe once they separated that love dissipated as she moved on and he reminisced in the past. Gatsby proves he isn't truly in love with her by only really loving the idea of Daisy,not truly connecting with Daisy, and the fact that he simply likes the idea of competing with a man like …show more content…

After separating, his deep infatuation with her just grew stronger. He didn’t mind the fact that she had moved on and had begun a new life with a new husband and child. Daisy becomes this idealized woman of his past. A quote from Nick Calloway proves he realized this, “we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Great Gatsby 141), describing the adamant pull the past with Daisy has on Gatsby. Other scholars came to the conclusion that Gatsby's obsession was really a pathological state of grieving that enslaves him. He displays the symptomatology of melancholic depression which is a form of repetition compulsion (Freud 18:21). Putting reasoning behind the supposed true love he displays for Daisy, and unveiling it as what it really is: melancholia. It becomes more clear that Gatsby's feelings for Daisy were something other than love, “‘Look at this, said Gatsby quickly. ‘Here’s a lot of clippings-about you’” (Great Gatsby 59), gives you more of a look into Gatsby's obsession with the idea of Daisy as he goes to the lengths of collecting newspaper clippings involving …show more content…

The contradicting upbringings of the two is what will inevitably drive them apart. James Gatz was born the son of poor farmers who was determined to be successful, and with the help of a wealthy man (Dan Cody) he was able to learn the manners of the rich. Daisy on the other hand, born into wealth and constantly being surrounded by it, simply has a different perspective of the world that differs from Gatsby's own, one that he simply will never be able to grasp because he never experienced it, no matter how much he pretends to understand. This is evident during Gatsby and Tom's fight over Daisy, “Gatsby leans into his melancholia, adamantly insisting she admit that she ‘never loved’ Tom. The desperation of the melancholia upends itself. Gatsby's virulence climaxes, he loses his composure , and the illegitimate swamp boy rises from The Valley of ashes. Once Daisy sees the bastardy his new wealth has been concealed (Pekarofski 65-66). Daisy also further proves the connection between the two is not strong enough as she realizes what she was getting herself into, “she hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing-and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all. But it was done now. It was too late.” (Great Gatsby

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The underlying question is; Why did Daisy choose Tom over Gatsby? Even though Gatsby had everything; a large mansion and new money, Daisy still chose the egotistical Tom over him as he represents old money and has a high social and economic status. One can infer that Daisy finds Gatsby too demanding as he forcefully insists that she makes an announcement that she never loved Tom. As a result, she decides to stay with Tom to maintain her status quo. I feel that this was a very selfish move, as she did not take Gatsby’s feelings into consideration.

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Great Gatsby: Gatsby and Daisy’s Relationship Introduction The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald displayed several cases of unhealthy relationships, but he mainly focuses on Jay Gatsby’s and Daisy Buchanan's affair. Within all of the romance, money and social status play a huge role, but its Gatsby’s and Daisy that varied the most. Jay Gatsby portrays a character that does not have a past and is looking for a future while Daisy was handed her future. Readers often conclude that Jay Gatsby was the least to blame for his and Daisy’s failed relationship, but it was neither Gatsby nor Daisy’s fault.

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This is predictable given that Gatsby's whole character is based on deception; he has reinvented himself as a wealthy and powerful man, but in reality, he is a poor North Dakota boy. Daisy, who comes from a rich family, sees right through him. She recognizes that he is not the guy he claims to be (not from old money), and this leads her to withdraw from him. Gatsby can see that Daisy is slipping away from him, and he feels powerless. This is a pivotal moment in the novel, as it symbolizes the beginning of Gatsby’s downfall.

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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.

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Gatsby had a past with Daisy. Gatsby tries to recover his love for Daisy so she can leave Tom Buchanan. "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book" (pg.6) "or rather, as I didn't know Mr. Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name." (pg.9) "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." (pg.117) "your wife doesn't love you, said Gatsby quietly."

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While Gatsby tries to obtain a romantic life with Daisy, he is portrayed to be rising above all the corruption to be with Daisy. Daisy is in an emotional state because she is stuck between her past and present, she cries to Gatsby, “Oh, you want too much!" "I love you now—isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly.

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Gatsby in this chapter explains that Daisy was unfaithful to him when he went to war and came back to her married. His one true love, Daisy, left Gatsby and broke his heart. He obsesses over her, although she is married to and loves someone else. This leaves Gatsby fearful of love, along with the fact that he cannot get over her. Another character, George, is also caught up in the same

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Having been apart from Daisy for five years, Gatsby had plenty of time to build up an image of her that was inaccurate and removed from the real person. Gatsby’s idealization of Daisy caused him to place unrealistic expectations onto her which resulted in his own disappointment when she did not match his

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Jay Gatsby knows this situation well. By any means necessary, Gatsby completely and single-mindedly modifies himself as a person. This evolution efficiently severs any ties between that of the original James Gatz that Daisy first meets, to the reinvented Jay Gatsby created just for her. Frustratingly, every bit of this is in vain. Gatsby brawls with Tom Buchanan, her husband, over who Daisy’s heart rightfully belonged.

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In this scene, Gatsby is trying his hardest to win back Daisy even though previous attempts were unsuccessful. In this attempt, Despite Gatsby’s efforts, he watches Daisy vanish into her, “rich, full life,” (Fitzgerald 149), Gatsby in this scene is left with nothing but his own feeling of still being married to her even though shes not there with him. With these feelings, Gatsbys emotions begin to show when he comes to the realization that he'll never get her back. Gatsbys dream of getting Daisy back to fall in love with him is seeming to be getting further and further away from reach as he watches her basically having her best life. Gatsby's obsession with Daisy goes beyond reason and he becomes nearly consumed by his own illusion, as he writes, “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

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The girl that Gatsby has once loved has been “short of his dreams- not through her own fault, but because of the constant vitality of his illusions,” and it is James Gatz who has gone into loving Daisy, but the high expectations of Jay Gatsby which ruins that love for her (Fitzgerald 95). As such, Gatsby’s hope to salvage her love proves to be meaningless as "his gift for hope, as it turns out, is Gatsby’s curse as well as his blessing," and so "it insulates him from the rational and experiential restraints" which causes him to be blinded by any form of rejection in his conscious when it comes to Daisy (Steinbrink). Gatz’s love for Daisy encompasses the basic foundation that makes James Gatz more genuine than Jay

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Fitzgerald provides plenty of scenes in The Great Gatsby supporting the ideas whether Gatsby’s love was affectionate, obsession, or objectification. Fitzgerald shows that throughout the story, Gatsby slowly becomes more obsessed with Daisy as he draws closer and closer to be with her. By the end of the book, Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy. He only thinks about her and analyze everything in her life. Even in the beginning when the reader finally meets Gatsby, his obsession shows.

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Daisy is all Gatsby can think about and it is starting to corrupt his mind, meaning that he forgets about his health and feelings just so he can be with Daisy and live his past again. “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her fault, but because of the

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