The Great Gatsby Quotes About Daisy

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,

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

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