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How Is Daisy's Life Portrayed In The Great Gatsby

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In the book, The Great Gatsby, James Gatsby has one goal, to earn the love and acknowledgment of Daisy Buchanan. Throughout the novel, author Scott Fitzgerald uses his own life experiences to make a strong point about the shallow, empty, materialistic values of American high society. When looking at the American high society in The Great Gatsby, there are no real values besides living life for the moment. The high class characters portrayed in Gatsby party their lives away with no ambitions beyond superficial facades. Some of these superficial characters include Nick Carraway, Jordan Baker, Tom Bunchanan, Daisy, and Gatsby, who is only there to impress Daisy. Gabsy worked hard just to make it into the upper class of society, with his sole focus …show more content…

Why is this a problem? Well, Fitzgerald is known for writing about his past, personal experiences and what he has gone through in life. Additionally, Fitzgerald finds it hard and “...once said he could not write unless he brought an intensity of emotion to the story (68) Careless people” One of the most traumatic things Fitzgerald went through in his life was his relationship with his sixteen year old girlfriend, Ginevra King. He had spent many years chasing her and trying to gain her love. When reading about Scott Fitzgerald ‘s personal life after reading The Great Gatsby, there are strong notions that Fitzgerald created Gatsby to be a reflection of himself. He, just like Gatsby, fell short of getting together with the love of his life. To further prove that Gatsby and Fitzgerald are portrayed to be the same person, Daisy leads Gatsby down paths he does not enjoy. This is a parallel situation seen in Fitzgerald’s life when Ginevra does the same to him. Chasing an empty person who has no ambition ultimately leads to emptiness. Fitzgerald found another love interest in his life, but in the end “it was the wound over Ginevra that never healed (72) careless people.” Fitzgerald always had some type of emptiness in him ever since he and Ginevra went their separate

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Great Gatsby: Gatsby and Daisy’s Relationship Introduction The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald displayed several cases of unhealthy relationships, but he mainly focuses on Jay Gatsby’s and Daisy Buchanan's affair. Within all of the romance, money and social status play a huge role, but its Gatsby’s and Daisy that varied the most. Jay Gatsby portrays a character that does not have a past and is looking for a future while Daisy was handed her future. Readers often conclude that Jay Gatsby was the least to blame for his and Daisy’s failed relationship, but it was neither Gatsby nor Daisy’s fault.

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“I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library." (Fitzgerald 42). In The Great Gatsby there are many parallels between the life of the main character Jay Gatsby and the life of the author F. Scott Fitzgerald that suggest events from the author's life being drafted into the novel. The idea for Daisy's character, Gatsby's rise into wealth and vasts amount of drinking throughout the novel were influenced by Fitzgerald's life. Fitzgerald was stationed at camp taylor during world war 1 where he met the love of his life and future wife zelda Sayre.

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Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy, a member of this privileged class, is a reflection of his desire to advance socially and obtain acceptance from the privileged classes. Tom Buchanan, a member of the Old Money, serves as a vehicle for Fitzgerald to stress the sense of entitlement that comes with being born into a well-off family. Tom embodies the arrogance and cruelty of the upper class, using his wealth and power to control and manipulate those around him. Fitzgerald also critiques the American Dream through the character of Gatsby, who’s despite all his effort he is unable to escape his lower-class trappings, suggesting that the pursuit of wealth and status can lead to moral decay and disillusionment. Gatsby's obsession with his past and his longing for the unattainable Daisy ultimately leads to his tragic demise.

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He is disillusioned by the hustle and bustle of the city and hopes to find what he’s missing in life. The reason he becomes so invested in Gatsby’s quest for love is that he’s looking for the same thing as him, only in a different way. He later realizes the superficiality of his new lifestyle and feels alienated from his wealthier counterparts. This can be seen when he says, "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." (Fitzgerald

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“Million Dollar Man,” sung by Lana Del Rey describes the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby because it discloses the conflicts within their relationship and their feelings. The song title itself accurately describes Gatsby’s character because he is a wealthy “million dollar man” who is sought after only for his wealth and status. The first two lines of the song relate to when Gatsby and Daisy had to say their goodbyes because Gatsby was leaving to fight in the war. It can be inferred that during their last few moments together, Gatsby told Daisy about how much he loves her and how she is “the most exotic flower” to him because Daisy reciprocated the same feelings and agreed to wait for his return from war. The lines “I don’t know how you convince them and get them, but I don’t know what you do, it’s unbelievable,” refers to how no one is certain of how Gatsby obtained his wealth due to his business dealings being illegitimate, yet he continues to fool everyone into overlooking the truth.

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Fitzgerald used positive characteristics from his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald, and negative characteristics from his first love, Ginevra King, as stimuli for the character of Daisy. His blend of the two women lead Daisy to be portrayed as a man’s ultimate downfall, much like Fitzgerald felt these two women were for him. Fitzgerald describes King as “the first girl I ever loved and I have faithfully avoided seeing her up to this moment to keep this illusion perfect” (Mangum). Fitzgerald’s wish to keep his fantasy in perfect condition correlates to Gatsby’s wish to immortalize Daisy in the goddess-like position his mind created for her. Fitzgerald shows similar emotions through the character of Gatsby when he says, “There must have been moments

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