How Does Daisy Fail In The Great Gatsby

A novel that comments on society and the choices people make within it, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald makes a compelling story laced with deceit, hope, and the unattainable. Fitzgerald paints many colorful characters within this novel, but Daisy Buchanan seems to always be in the spotlight. Daisy searches for wealth and love, but finds them in two different men. Daisy Buchanan deceives the men in her life searching for her goal of having “everything” showing that this grail quest is doomed to fail. The match between old money and genuine love are constantly fighting for Daisy’s heart. The dynamic between East and West Egg shows that even with the same amount of money, old money will be considered better. Gatsby earned his money

One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago.” (6.125) !Cite correctly! He wanted to completely wipe out the relationship of Daisy and her husband, and establish himself as her only love, ever. He wanted everything to go back to the way it was when he first met Daisy, and when he was told that was impossible his reaction was “Can‘t repeat the past?‘ he cried incredulously. ̳Why of course you can!” 110, 111). Daisy however could not do this. She fails to prove to Tom that Gatsby is insignificant because she listens to Gatsby’s suggestions, but can not follow through. Her lies were brought together, and she could not give up her two supplies of the high life, and love. While Daisy is very human and feels sadness and joy within this story, it becomes evident at the end that she is incredibly manipulative. Readers follow her love life between Tom as well as Gatsby through this story. It adds an air of anxiety and suspense because no one knows who she will choose, or of she will even choose at all. The heartbreak and selfishness that her lies add to this

It truly was a house divided. Daisy continues to lie until she loses one of her options. Her deceit ultimately led to the demise of Jay Gatsby and was the instigator of tragedy within this novel. She was using Gatsby for attention and love, when he was murdered all of her words of love were proven weak, she did not even call on Nick about Gatsby. Gatsby was waiting for a call he would never get from Daisy when he was murdered, even to the bitter end everything he did was for her, but had lied which ultimately led him to the slaughter. In Daisy trying to have ‘all her eggs in two baskets’ she ended up causing a lot of damage trying to find happiness in two men. She ran away from the mess she made with her husband, denying responsibility for her actions, because as Nick describes “―They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made... (179, 180,”. The hope that Daisy was teasing Gatsby with was cruel and was not realistic. In having Daisy use these men, Fitzgerald shows that on the side of Daisy if you seek everything and are selfish things tend to collapse. On the other end it shows that selfishness and deceit can keep a dream that seems so close, out of reach and unattainable.