How Is Daisy Presented In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book based around the jazz era which was in the 1920’s. There was rapid economic growth, music and dance styles that gained popularity. It covers this era perfectly with all the parties that Gatsby threw. The Great Gatsby shows many different concepts that were going on in the 1920’s such as bootlegging, affairs, which were a normal thing back then, and it showed how the men were still known as superior to the woman. Throughout the book Jay Gatsby had been trying to get Daisy to notice him and rekindle their relationship. He grew up very poor and Daisy’s parents didn’t want her with someone that had no money. He then had to leave for the war but has been in love with her for many years and now that he has money he thinks he can win her back and that things can go back to how they were when they first met. Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as this man who is desperately trying to change himself and his past and put on a fake show because he has this obsession with Daisy, but really he is just a hopeful man who is madly in love and just wants

His obsession with Daisy is what has driven him towards this need to become someone he was not. In the book this obsession is shown by the fact that he bought a house in west egg right across the bay from Daisy's house to be able to see her all the time, Jordan told Nick “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be right across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78). He has also been plotting for years throwing big parties trying to find either Daisy or someone who knows her, so that he can set up an accidental meeting. Some see this to come off as an obsession but others find it romantic and see that it shows that he truly loves her if he is willing to make changes to his life and spend years to find her again and be better for