Throughout the novel, the characters chose to ignore all the problems going on in their lives. The characters chose to ignore cheating, abuse, and lust. Pretending that the problems are not there does not mean they do not exist. “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God” (Fitzgerald 159). Fitzgerald is trying to get across with this statement that no matter what happens or where it happens, God will see. Fitzgerald uses Dr. Eckleburg’s billboard and Owl Eyes to symbolize how someone is always watching. “Tom’s got a woman in New York” (Fitzgerald 15). This is one example of how the characters throughout the novel are not facing their problems. Daisy knows her husband, Tom, is cheating on her with Myrtle, but she chooses to ignore it. Tom and Daisy have a child together and it would ruin the life that she has if she were to confront him about the situation. Fitzgerald is trying to convey how people do not want to steer away from their normal life and routine and will do anything to hide the pain that they feel and push it away. Daisy could feel her marriage slipping away from what it once was and with Tom’s affair it was making him happier and making their problems non-existent. “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I’ll say it whenever I want to” (Fitzgerald 37). Tom and Myrtle were …show more content…
And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 17). In the story, Daisy wants her daughter to be like everyone else in Tom and Daisy’s world. Daisy wants her to be oblivious to the world and all the wrongful doings being committed in it. Fitzgerald is wanting to get across to the reader how Daisy realizes how the world that she is living in is full of sin, but oblivious to it all. Yet she wants her daughter to be just like her, oblivious. “There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around