Letter To Daisy's Eulogy For The Great Gatsby

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I have received some very shocking news. I heard you married Tom. I was puzzled but of course, that means nothing to me because I will have you by my side. It’s okay, I understand that you might doubt my love for you, but without you, I feel foolish and incomplete. I love you, my Daisy, I can never reiterate it too often, I can never express it as much as I feel it. If you give me a chance, we can start over, just as it were five years ago. Tom is keeping me away from you and as long as he is in your life, you will be filled with unhappiness each and every day. My dear Daisy, I wish there was an easier way to say this, but you need to leave Tom. If you leave him, I promise to be all that he is not. I will guard you from that merciless brute …show more content…

All the times that he’d ran around with his mistress and all the times that he’d hurt you physically and emotionally. How can you be with someone who is not in the least devoted to you? Yes, I’m aware of his affair with Myrtle Wilson. You are superior to all and why he would dream of leaving someone like you is beyond me. It frustrates me to death to see you miserable being stuck with Tom, because it is clear that he doesn’t please you like the way I could. But I won’t blame you for marrying him, because eventually you will end up with me. Can’t you see what Tom is doing to you? He is reviled and insensitive. I see the way he talks to and about you. He flies into a rage over the tiniest things that you say. He never listens and is always contradicting what you say. When you do get a word in, he dismisses it and calls you names. I can’t imagine how upset you must be every time he calls you a fool. That is not the right way to treat a lady such as yourself. Furthermore. How he is treating you concerns me. Tom is abusive, Daisy. The bruises on your arm are all the proof I need to be convinced of that. I can only envision that you must live in fear day by day, questioning where and when that brute will raid again. His actions have made it clear that he does not have good intentions. Daisy, Tom does not, nor will ever love you like I do. So why would you stay with a man who isn’t deserving of your

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