What Is Daisy Buchanan Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Symbolism shown throughout The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about the American dream is, and how different people apply it to their lives. The novel, published in 1925, revolves around the main character: Jay Gatsby. A young, handsome man, out for the heart of his life long love, Daisy Buchanan. Within the book, Fitzgerald provides three main characters, all caught up in a tangled, messy web. Daisy Buchanan, a young, wild, beautiful woman who is very carefree and naive. Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin, and Gatsby’s neighbor, is Almost like a counselor kind of the counselor to everyone, considering to how well he is at listening, and finally, millionaire Jay Gatsby.

Fitzgerald uses these main characters through symbolism, and their life stories to set up the plot for a story full of romance, passion and revenge. Jay Gatsby, also known as James Gatz, is a young handsome man, who came from the midwest, to New York with hopes of making good money, and giving himself a good title within East Egg and West Egg for his crazy, rambunctious parties.;But what nobody knows about Gatsby, is that he is madly in love with a young girl named Daisy. Daisy Buchanan. They had a relationship, prior to Gatsby leaving for war. Once he was gone, Daisy moved on, while Gatsby had not. He figured he would resurrect the past, and everything would be fine,and resort to the way they lived five years prior to Gatsby leaving and like how it was five years ago, but sadly, he was wrong. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was

Nick is a young man from the midwest who moved to New York for the bond business. Fitzgerald expresses symbolism through Nick by showing the basic idea for the “American Dream”. Nick explains “I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard … My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.”(page 14). This is just saying that even though Nick didn't have the best of houses, and he was surrounded by rich people, he was still happy with this life. Dr. Anna Wulick explains that “saying that It may be a small house, but at least Nick gets to live near millionaires. He's joking, but this is the same logic that makes people buy designer sunglasses: you may not be able to afford the actual clothes, but you still get to have a little reflected glamour even though he didn't have the best of houses, he was still happy.” She is explaining that even though Nick didn't have much money, he was still happy with how his life