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Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Daisy Buchanan

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The theme of illusion dominates throughout this entire novel, The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are both created illusions, and they are very similar and different in many ways. Both illusions relate back to the realistic fact that you cannot repeat the past. Jay Gatsby, the man himself, is an illusion, created by James Gatz in 1917. When James first met Daisy, he fell in love with her. He created the first illusion that she would wait for him while at war, but she goes off and marries Tom. When this happened he assumes that he wasn’t good enough/couldn’t provide enough for her because of his lack of wealth, so he decides to become a whole new person, Jay Gatsby, associate himself with people with wealth to become wealthy, be
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