How Does Daisy Change In The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby is a story of lost love, and F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts in the novel how love can change and even destroy a person. True love is extremely hard to find and to keep, and many people spend their entire lives trying to find the person who makes their life worth living. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is slightly too obsessively in love with Daisy Buchannan and never lessens his attempts to acquire her. In addition to obsessively wanting Daisy, Jay Gatsby has wanted to be a rich man for his whole life. His motivation to become rich is his obsession and love for Daisy, whom he met when he was a military officer in Louisville. Jay simply idolizes Daisy Buchanan and he hopes that she will love him back. He does not want to feel like …show more content…

In his relationship with Daisy, all he wants is for Daisy to simpy say that she never loved Tom. He wants to have the same connection that he had with her when they were younger, and he is extremely obsessive, and doesn’t seem to realize that his dream is only just a dream. It seems like he is longing for some feeling that they had together, and wants for her to be able to understand and be able to repeat the past with him. When he is reminiscing with Nick, it shows how idealistic his image of his relationship with Daisy has become. “I think that he would have acknowledged anything now, without reserve, but he wanted to talk about Daisy… he was the first “nice girl he had ever known… He found her axcitingly desirable… But what gave it an air of breathless intensity was that Daisy lived there…” (148) Nick sees and understands this, but at the same time the sense is present that what Gatsby is saying isn’t entirely false and there is some reality within Gatsby’s illusion of Daisy.
There is the feeling that Gatsby has used all of this effort only and completely for Daisy, and he becomes depressed when he sees how much things have changed between them. In addition, he also feels depressed when he meets Tom properly, and sees how far from one another their social standpoints still are. After this, his optimism returns and his dream is rebuilding itself. He still thinks, even after meeting Tom and Daisy not understanding him, that the past still has the chance to repeat

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