How Does Daisy Develop In The Great Gatsby

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Men have always tried to win over women. This “trait” was developed through evolution; if a man did not seduce a woman, his traits would not get passed down. Men do weird things to get a woman, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby throws lavish parties, and befriended his love’s cousin, Nick, in hope that Daisy, his love interest, would come to him and still love him back. Gatsby, a self made man, who reinvented himself, was in love with Daisy before the war. When Gatsby came back from the war, he learned about Daisy’s marriage to Tom. Gatsby was still in love with Daisy and he hoped that she still loved him too. His reinvented self became more extravagant in his lifestyle in order to win the heart of Daisy. Gatsby’s attempts …show more content…

Gatsby was so infatuated with Daisy that he bought the house directly across from her. Nick describes a night where he saw “Gatsby genuflecting to the light on Daisy's dock, ‘the bellows of the earth have blown the frogs full of life,’ and there is a sound of ‘wings beating in the trees.’”7 Gatsby would watch the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, longing for her to be his. His attempts to “recapture Daisy's love are [also] vain attempts to ‘repeat the past,’ an ambition to which Gatsby devotes all his energies.”8 Gatsby and Daisy had known each other when they were younger, and had been in love. Gatsby tries every way he can possibly think of in order to get Daisy to love him …show more content…

the heritage of James Gatz, a poor farm boy, yet had he been able to keep Cody's bequest and to win the hand of the young Daisy (a causally connected sequence), Gatsby might have erected a reasonable facsimile of the settled and secure Middle Western existence that constitutes Nick's past, though whether he could have been happy in such a life is open to doubt. Instead, Gatsby had ended up living in the rootless East and allying with a man of exotic ethnicity who uses indigenous American institutions for illegal purposes. In Nick's eyes, Gatsby has pursued the American dream in the wrong direction and so has lost it ‘somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the