Analysis Of Daisby In The Great Gatsby

“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you” F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses his beliefs his belief that Deciding what you want has no effect on getting what you want. Gatsby is able to get everything that he wants except Through Daisy and Gatsby’s actions, Fitzgerald shows that he does not believe a person who decides what they want will get what they want. Tom is the reason Daisy can’t have what she wants. Daisy wants to be with Gatsby, but Tom intervenes to convince her otherwise. Tom stays married to Daisy, and cheats on her, almost everyone knows that he is cheating on her, when Jordan and Nick are talking at she talks about the affair “”You mean to say you don’t know?” said Miss Baker, honestly

Gatsby treats daisy better which is why Daisy truly loves him, she regrets marrying Tom in the first place, this is obvious when Gatsby threw lots of his “beautiful shirts” at her “He began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel... While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly …She began to cry stormily“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed.… “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.” (Fitzgerald 98). Daisy’s reaction shows her feelings for Gatsby, she regrets marrying Tom because she could have married Gatsby and been happier. Daisy loves Gatsby, she even said that she loved Tom at one point but she loves him now, but Tom won’t stand for that, so he manipulates Daisy into thinking differently about Gatsby during the argument in the

But we were all looking at Gatsby. “It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Armistice,” he continued. “We could go to any of the universities in England or France.”I wanted to get up and slap him on the back. I had one of those renewals of complete faith in him that I’d experienced before….“Open the whiskey, Tom,” she ordered, “and I’ll make you a mint julep. Then you won’t seem so stupid to yourself. . . . Look at the mint!”“Wait a minute,” snapped Tom, “I want to ask Mr. Gatsby one more question.”“Go on,” Gatsby said politely.“What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?”They were out in the open at last and Gatsby was content.“He isn’t causing a row.” Daisy looked desperately from one to the other. “You’re causing a row. Please have a little self-control.”“Self-control!” Repeated Tom incredulously. “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that’s the idea you can count me out. ….Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.” “(Fitzgerald 126). This