Daisy's Love In The Great Gatsby

“She’s always loved me, not you Tom...” Can the smallest occurrences make someone think think someone loves them? Throughout The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby sets an impression that with every incident he involves himself in makes him think he has a great chance of being with Daisy Buchanan. Being told throughout the cities West and East egg, this is a tough love affair between Jay Gatsby and his former lover Daisy Buchanan. Shortly followed by heartbreak when one end of the party tries to get back with one when Daisy is happy where she is. Throughout The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald gives us an impression that Gatsby is overly obsessive and has too much hope for something that he will never get. This is demonstrated when Gatsby looks at Daisy’s green light on her dock, when gatsby shows Daisy through

his house to welcome her into his life, and when they had great times at Gatsby’s house.

When seeing the green light at the end of the dock, it gives Jay more hope and desire to form his dream for him and Daisy to be together. While Daisy and Gatsby are venturing through his property, he stops to mention to daisy that everyday he has always been watching the green light on the end of her dock. Gatsby eagerly spoke “You always have that green light that burns all night at the end of your dock” (6). This reaffirms the thesis because he says he is always watching over her house every single night and is always watching the little details. All throughout it was not much, but the green light gave Gatsby just enough hope and desire for Daisy to keep pushing on for her. Another example, during the time of Daisy and Gatsby are venturing around his house when he tells her that watching over the green light is an every night event but was losing its ‘touch’, Gatsby cried, “Now again it was a green light on a dock” (7). Gatsby uses all he has of Daisy (the green light) and he always tries to use that the reaffirm himself that he’ll be able to get her back in his life one day soon. Everytime Gatsby saw something with a bright colored, it reminded him of Daisy and his dream for the two of them together.

From the first times Gatsby was with Daisy, he had the utmost desire to steal her back from Tom Buchanan.

Being the first time she’s ever been to one of Gatsby’s parties, she’s not impressed with the big and loud parties being held at Jay Gatsby’s house. As Nick Carraway and Gatsby are watching over a party, Nick yells, “Now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music.” (42). Gatsby is always throwing these huge and extravagant parties hoping that Daisy would come in so he can get her back into his life, but when she finally comes to a party she does not like the party life. Likewise, when he hope for her to come over again, she actually came to visit him and Nick, then he follows by trying to get her to stay as long as possible. Going off when she comes to a party, she does not like the party itself but she likes Gatsby’s house. After her visit Nick notes, “We sat down at the table with 2 girls in yellow...” (44). Daisy walks through his home and is impressed by the size of the home and makes Gatsby think he has a bigger chance of getting her back for just him. Any little tiny incident Daisy had with Gatsby made him think he was winning her

over.

Daisy coming into the home of Jay made him feel like he controlled his destiny over his and Daisy’s future together. Daisy is invited over to Gatsby for a get-together between the two and in the process Gatsby gives Daisy a tour of his whole home after the have tea. In ah, Daisy says “We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space..” (12). First, just being with her makes him feel like he has all the control he can over them and their future, but also whenever the bright colors are mentioned it makes him think of her and the beauty he found in her. Otherwise, most of the day consisted of Daisy being shown through the house Gatsby wants to share with her. Later on, Daisy exclaimed, “A cheerful red and white georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay..” (13). Her just saying that to Gatsby makes him think that she notices him and his house and thinks about him even when she’s not with him. Anytime she says a word to him it makes him feel like he’s slowly winning her back over.

Throughout The Great Gatsby, warm colors are used to symbolize hope and happiness for Gatsby. Daisy is everything Gatsby wanted in a women, he had hopes and dreams for them and everything he did was in mind for their future, he did everything he could in his power to try to win her back over to him. Every single little occurrence that happened to Daisy, even if it was not with him in mind, always made him think he was a step ahead in getting her back and that he was on the fast track to getting back his life with Daisy.