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The Flower In The Great Gatsby

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The flower in Chapter 6 and chapter 5 in The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald support Nick 's statement, "you can’t repeat the past” through the imagery of flower that represent the first spark relationship of Daisy and Gatsby. The first time that Gatsby and Daisy met, they wanted each other. They loved each other very dearly. However after the war of World War 1, The relationship floated away like petals in the wind. As Gatsby talks about repeating the past, he step on flowers that later turned to, “...discarded flavors and crushed flowers”(109 Fitzgerald). This resembles the crushed relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. The flower can’t revert to its previous state of beauty but it still a flower without the pretty shades of
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The daisy is a mixture of white peltes and a bright yellow inside and these two parts of the flower come together to create a symbolism of love. Daisy is most like the flower in this way as she has two sides, one where she wants true love with Gatsby and the other that is obsessed with money. This main character’s sides, unlike the daisy, do not come together to create a lovely person but rather a selfish lover. Eventually, Daisy declares her love in front of her husband when she tells Gatsby “I love you now—isn’t that enough? ().

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lust for the past In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby seeks love from the past with a girl bright and beautiful who's name is daisy; who is now married to Tom Beucanon. Though they are married, Gatsby's desire for her shows that he will stop at nothing to be reunited with his past lover. In the midst of night nick goes outside for air and to look at the stars, in his relaxed state his eyes wander and he finds a figure in the mansion next to him staring at the same stars as himself.

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In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, it states that nothing that is considered precious cannot last because time is always moving forward, making change inevitable. In the novel, Gatsby and Daisy both relate to elements in the poem. An allusion made in the poem can also be used to describe Gatsby and Daisy’s roles in the novel. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby attempts to recreate the perfect and innocent love that he and Daisy shared in their youth.

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This shows how illogically Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy has made him think. “‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.’” (The Great Gatsby page 110) Through this quote in the book, readers can see that Gatsby sincerely believes that he can repeat the past. His longing for repeating the past has taken over his logical way of thinking giving him the idea that repeating the past is possible.

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In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald characterizes Daisy with the white color which symbolizes negative aspects about her such as ignorance of life and naivety yet the white color might also portray Daisy as innocent and beautiful. Witness is linked a lot with Daisy in chapter four. By the end of the chapter, Jordan Baker starts telling Nick Carroway about the history between Daisy and Gatsby. This is a second hand story which might not be as accurate as it should be. Stories are always being twisted around so there is always a chance of some error in the story of the story, which is being told by Jordan to Nick who then writes what she say’s.

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At his lips touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete” (110-111) shows the rebirth of Gatsby and Daisy’s love. When Daisy kisses Gatsby, she is portrayed like a flower, where she blooms for Gatsby’s wealth and fame. In this case Gatsby becomes a religious follower for Daisy. All that he creates in life is to fulfill his dream and to attain his love.

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Scott Fitzgerald shows many points in Gatsby’s actions and words that the reader can decide how he really felt for Daisy. It’s up to the reader’s imagination to see what mindset Gatsby has and whether his love for Daisy was either obsession, affection, or objectification. The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of how love and lust can drive a man crazy, whether it’s Tom, Gatsby, or Wilson. When Nick ends with, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (189). Showed that no matter how hard Gatsby fought for Daisy’s heart and his American Dream, he was pushed back and had to start over, getting closer and closer, but he never got to fulfill his dream, and that’s the way life goes for many

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[Gatsby] cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”(110) As Gatsby truly believed that he was no longer James Gatz, he believed that Daisy still loved him and was the same from five years ago. But the truth of the matter is that Daisy had once truly loved him and she isn't the same as she was the years before, and there is nothing Gatsby can do to repeat the past and end up with the happy ending he dreamed of where “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.”

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Gatsby’s dreams and aspirations in life are rather interesting and amazing as he goes about his life in the book. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald helps highlight the social, moral, and political issue that were very present during the 1920’s and today. Gatsby is the focus of the book as before the book began, he was an ex-soldier who came to wealth by some rather illegal ways. Daisy a married woman is his person of interest, who was his ex-lover 5 years before the book started. Gatsby’s actions, and words demonstrate a clear obsession with Daisy that seems to have no end.

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Although in a quest to reunite with the true love of his life, Jay Gatsby relentlessly pursued and pushed love, resulting in adultery, deception, and more importantly the death of the man himself. Gatsby truly believed that in order to win back the heart of his long lost love, it was necessary to recreate their past love. Not only did this backfire tremendously upon Gatsby, yet his plan encouraged adultery and the usage of others in his environment. “They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn’t know me now at all” (Fitzgerald 96). The subtle remark by Nick Carraway carries truly a much deeper meaning than upon the surface.

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In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed as a modern woman; she is sophisticated, careless and beautifully shallow. Daisy knows who she is, and what it takes for her to be able to keep the lifestyle she grew up in, and this adds to her carelessness and her feigned interest in life. In all, Daisy is a woman who will not sacrifice material desires or comfort for love or for others, and her character is politely cruel in this way. Daisy’s main strength, which buoyed her throughout her youth and when she was in Louisville, is her ability to know what was expected of her and feign cluelessness.

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Daisy however, very heartbroken and anxious to start a family, failed to wait for Gatsby while he was at war and she vulnerably fell in love with Tom and his money. Throughout the time Gatsby was away she grew and developed mentally, leaving him to love someone that no longer existed. When Gatsby says “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”(Fitzgerald 110)it shows how his imagination has affected his sense of reality. He became lost in the idea that he could get Daisy back and things would automatically return to how they were before he went away.

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Flowers are living organisms, as diverse as humans, ranging from beautiful and delicate to strong and sturdy. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the symbolism of flowers develop the characters and show the effect money had on their lives and social status in The Great Gatsby. Daisy and Myrtle are two characters with these symbolic floral names, one with a life of money, and one without. Daisy flower petals represent an external appearance of purity and innocence, in contrast to the yellow center that shows how corrupt Daisy was by her materialism and desire for wealth. Myrtle, the other flower, is stark in comparison to the delicate beauty and ephemerality of the daisy.

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Daisy seemed really nice and pretty and was the goal of Gatsby to get, but turns out she's not as great and Gatsby imagined her being, represents the false sense of glory people see in the American Dream. This proved in chapter 5, page 93, "Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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