Throughout this novel, Fitzgerald portrays an ongoing question about who Daisy really does love. Tom and Gatsby are fighting for her love in different ways throughout the novel but thru events in the book it reveals that she only loves herself.
Daisy shows throughout the novel in multiple ways that she only loves herself and not Tom or Gatsby. “Daisy is a vacuous creature whose self-identity is defined by externals. She is so empty that Fitzgerald can only portray her through the qualities of another” (Gallo 45).When Daisy met Gatsby she was in love with him as she explains but she then meets Tom after many events happen and ends up marrying Tom. When she realizes Gatsby is still alive and is still deeply in love with her, she decides to pick what one she loves the most and which one she would actually want to be with. Daisy doesn't know who she loves the most because they both have exactly what she wants in her life, which is defining who she is from the people around her, she wants the best for herself and that is why she cannot pick who she does truly love.
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There is not one character that develops in a way that everyone can tell what is going on throughout the characters heads, the novel only explains the events that happen, things happen between the characters that are not fully explained and should be. Daisy can conduct herself in ways that hide what she feels about someone and this is why no one exactly knows who she does truly love until the end of the book, which is why many of the characters do not have a good development throughout the story or this