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What Does Daisy Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

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Symbolism is an important part of The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald used so many different kind of symbols to tell the different characters side of the story or their future decisions. But what if there is something greater than that? What if their symbols showed a side of them that we have to search for to see? Gatsby was the first to come up in for me on symbols in The Great Gatsby. Mainly the part where he’s reaching out to the green light on the other side of the dock. “He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and as 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 at …show more content…

It was the color of her clothes. In the book Daisy and Jordan were both always seen wearing white. “They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short light around the house.”[Pg.15] I think it meant something of false purity or the view of goodness. Daisy was known for her beauty and her kind soul but later in the book she starts an affair with Gatsby, giving that purity away and making it false. However with the second choice of goodness, Daisy could have been doing what she did out of mercy of not only her own heart but also of Gatsby’s. “Suddenly with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. ‘They’re such beautiful shirts’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.’”[Pg.89] Now this could mean that she just really liked the shirts and she’s being over dramatic. But I think it’s more like she’s saying that instead of saying what she wants to say because she can’t. Daisy wants to say she’s still in love with Gatsby but is scared at what not only his reaction would be but also knows that she is married to Tom with a

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Seeing these shirts overwhelmed Daisy and made her think of the past. ” They’re such beautiful shirts.” (Fitzgerald 88) Daisy’s feelings about Jay came out in the form of tears when she thought about him while looking at his shirts. These feelings are later found out to be partially false and leads to Jay’s sporadic behavior. Gatsby had fallen head over heels for Daisy and had become obsessed upon his return from the war and was determined to gain wealth.

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Symbols in books and novels can help add support to a book or display more insight into the stories being told. Symbols can be placed by authors to further a plot, or in most cases, to develop a theme. The novel The Great Gatsby, which was written by the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, contains many themes that can be supported by the usage of symbols. One theme that stands out the most for being aided by symbols is the theme of love. Love is portrayed multiple different ways in the novel and it can always be supported by symbolism in some way.

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Even though she despises that her husband cheats on her and wishes she could leave him she knows in her head and heart that she cannot. When Daisy was at Gatsby’s house and saw all of his beautiful shirts, she is described as sobbing. While sobbing she commented on the shirts “ It makes [her] sad because [she have] never seen such-such beautiful shirts before”(92). Daisy realized at this point that no matter what she did, she would never be able to leave her husband. No matter how much she despises him and is unhappy with her life, she cannot leave Tom without societal

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There are copious examples of symbolism showing up in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. One example of symbolism is when gatsby almost knocks over an old clock but gatsby impedes the clock from hitting the ground and resolves the problem by putting it upright and setting it to the correct time. Some people may misconstrue this as Gatsby being diligent but in reality he is doing something that is quiet odd, Gatsby is trying to turn back time not just the clock but also time itself, and although normal people know that this is not possible gatsby thinks that it is. Another Symbol that shows up are Wolfsheim's disconcerting cufflinks, these symbolize his bellicose behavior, when someone doesn’t follow proper decorum around him he supress’s

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays women in an extremely negative light. The idea Fitzgerald gives off is that women are only good for their looks and their bodies and that they should just be a sex symbol rather than actually use their heads. He treats women like objects and the male characters in the novel use women, abuse women, and throw them aside. I believe that Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle are prime examples of women in The Great Gatsby being treated poorly.

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“’They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.’” (The Great Gatsby, 87) Here we get a small glimpse at the Daisy’s true emotions; she’s sad, however, she uses the “beautiful shirts” as a diversion to hide that what she’s really sad about is not shirts, but she’s sad because she realizes she’s missed the experience and life she could’ve had with Gatsby. Gatsby throwing the shirts above her just keep mounting higher and higher on the table below, just like her feelings have for him, all of these emotions were piling up and mounting higher and are not all falling on her just the way Gatsby’s shirts were.

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Especially when she cries over Gatsby's clothes. She says “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such —such beautiful shirts before” (Fitzgerald 5). Daisy is crying over Gatsby's clothes when she realizes that he has actual nice clothes now. Seeing that he now has what she calls beautiful shirts really messes with her emotions.

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Despite Daisy’s clear nonchalance towards Gatsby’s feelings Gatsby still felt as if Daisy loved him, why else would he take the blame for something so massive, he wouldn’t have done that for just a friend. Daisy continues to deceive Gatsby because she knows that he will do whatever she wants, This connects to the entire book because Daisy is an overall deceitful woman, and the book as a whole portrays woman as unfaithful, such as Myrtle who cheats on her husband to move up in social

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