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How Did Daisy Buchanan Fail In The Great Gatsby

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Love is a destructive force. It leads to broken hearts and relationships that can sometimes never be healed. “I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”(Fitzgerald 17). The two biggest relationships throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, are between James Gatz and Daisy Buchanan, and Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan. Our main character, James Gatz, is a man who was heartbroken over the love of his life when she married another man after he was drafted into the war. His only goal was to get Daisy Buchanan back, but in the midst of all of the drama, Jay Gatz, the obsessive, naive, selfish, and manipulative human being that once lived, dies. Throughout this whole process of Gatsby trying to get back the love of his life, our narrator, Nick Carraway, finds something in Gatsby, something that many other people don’t really have. Nick realizes that he doesn’t love Gatsby, he is in love with him, which shows how Nick is bias towards Gatsby, making the readers point of view also corrupted. He loves Gatsby for not only the way that he perseveres through his optimism on the outside but how he shapes his …show more content…

He does not even care for Daisy anymore. All he sees, is this perfect version of her in his head that he can mold to his liking. In all of this, he cannot see that people change as time passes. An additional reason is the impossibility of exactly recreating the past as it precisely was. “Can’t repeat the past?... Why, of course you can!” (Fitzgerald 110) Gatsby cannot turn back time and make everything exactly how it was because that life is gone forever. He is unable to realize that the past is out of reach and he has to deal with the present he lives in now. As we know, Gatsby’s aim of restarting their romance together fails because it relies on unrealistic expectations, illusory beliefs, and a distorted perception of what love

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