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The Great Gatsby Quotes About Daisy

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A man who has fallen in love with a memory tries to rekindle an old love with a girl he used to know, he comes to realize that she has changed and moved on, she isn’t the girl he used to, but maybe she never was. In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby spends his entire adult life chasing after Daisy Buchanan to find out she is married to Tom. Nick visits Jordan Baker, a good friend of Daisy’s, who finally tells him the details of her mysterious conversation with Gatsby at the party. According to Jordan, during the war, before Daisy married Tom, she was a beautiful young girl in Louisville, Kentucky, and all the military officers in town were in love with her. Daisy fell in love with the poor, Lieutenant Jay Gatsby, …show more content…

He wants something he cannot have much like the symbol of the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, “...But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.” (fitzgerald 25-26) The quote reveals that Jay’s dream is about fully achieving daisy, and he is consumed completely by the thought of her. He thinks that she is the only way to make him happy. The green light at the end of the dock symbolizes that he is still far away from her and will never fully "touch the green light" or reach his full dream of achieving her which foreshadows him losing her in the …show more content…

They get bored at Daisy and Tom’s, so they decide to go into town. After they pull up into town, they end up in a suite at the Plaza hotel in an attempt to cool off a little. The tensions between Gatsby and Tom begin to rise even more than they already had when Tom accuses Gatsby of lying about being an Oxford man. Gatsby defends himself and declares that he was at Oxford, but only for a few months. Later, Gatsby starts to force Daisy to choose between himself and Tom. He tries to put words into her mouth, telling her in front of Tom, “It doesn’t matter any more. Just tell him the truth—that you never loved him—and it’s all wiped out forever.”(Fitzgerald 139) It is not fair of him to try to convince her that he was the one for her and that she should leave Tom. Before she agrees and follows along with what Gatsby says, she hesitates for awhile, suggesting that she loved, or possibly still does love Tom. On the other hand, however, it is not fair of Daisy to tell Gatsby she loves him although she has no true intention of leaving

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1. Gatsby has large and rapid mode swings for example, he “literally growled” and immediately after “without…exultation” radiated “ a new-well being”, which suggests he is emotionally unstable (95). 2.Gatsby gives off mixes signals, for he implies he wants alone time with Daisy when he looks between Nick and her with “tense unhappy eyes”, although when Nick leaves, giving the pair some privacy, Gatsby follows him sharing that he thinks, “[the meeting] is a mistake” (85). 3. The “faint flow of thunder”, which is present outside while Gatsby is meeting with Daisy, foreshadows flow of the pair’s relationship; where many small events will lead to a large burst of pent up emotion, just like thunder is the precursor to a storm.

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One of the many questions asked while reading The Great Gatsby would be, Is Daisy Buchanan the Victim or VIllain. I feel strongly that she is the victim although she does do some messed up things during the course of the book. While reading she is described in many ways, “‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly. ”“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” “‘Oh, you want too much!’

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Through Gatsby’s actions, he desperately created himself (wanted) to be with Daisy. Through these quotes, Gatsby shows the amount of danger he will deal with to be with Daisy. “Gatsby bought his new house so that Daisy would be just across the bay. ”(Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby moved near Daisy, acting like he was a stranger but Gatsby had wanted to be with her for five years.

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Fitzgerald displays that Gatsby really wants to be back in Daisy’s life in Chapter 7 “‘She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!’” (Fitzgerald 139).

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Daisy is unhappy with her marriage to Tom, this leads her to have bursts of unsettlement. Daisy, it seems desires to be with Gatsby, even after he leaves for the war. This leads her to say the day of her wedding,“Daisy’s change’ her mine” (pg 76). Daisy says this after she has been quite drunk,by revealing her true feelings. She during this scene,is described by Jordan who states, “She groped around in a waste-basket she had on her bed and pulled out the string of pearls”(pg 76).

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A Daisy by Any Other Name Every great story needs both a villain and a hero, and the greatest stories are often characterized by their abilities to blur the line between the two. In The Great Gatsby, a novel by Scott F. Fitzgerald set in the Eggs of New York, a line can be drawn between Daisy and Gatsby, Daisy and Nick, or even Daisy and Tom quite easily. Though a reader’s first impulse may be to cast Daisy as the villain, she lands the role of the victim rather than the tormentor.

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However, in chapter 7, during the confrontation, Daisy quickly rethinks her decisions and states, ‘I did love him once – but I loved you too’. As Gatsby hopes and expectations of them being together breaks the audience starts to comprehend that Daisy contradicting statements is purely because she is afraid to leave Tom. Tom came from a wealthy family and was highly respected in society. Daisy knew that life with him would be luxiourous and entirely satisfactory in terms of respect and wealth. In addition, the author is trying to convey to the audience that Daisy is too secure in her marriage with Tom to even consider leaving it.

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‘Daisy?’ ” Daisy begins to choke up at the precious memories Tom brings up. She eventually cries to Gatsby, “‘Oh, you want too much!’... ‘I love you now- isn’t that enough?

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If Gatsby is to truly love Daisy, instead of destroying her marriage, he would have let her go. However, because of his extreme devotion towards Daisy, he dreams of a utopia where their feelings for each other is mutual. Thus, he demands her to say that she has never loved Tom to affirm that she loves him only, but Daisy does fall in love with Tom at some point in her marriage, in between the five years of Gatsby’s absence. Nonetheless, Gatsby does not give up. He “[clutches]

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He feels that if she does this her relationship to Tom will be "wiped out forever"(Fitzgerald 132) and they will be able to return to what they once had, but the events do not unfold this way. She does tell Tom that she never loved him, but it isn't true and when she says it it doesn't have the effect that Gatsby was convinced it would. Her relationship with Tom

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