Similarities Between Daisy And The Great Gatsby

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“”The letters help us understand the fictional process by which he transferred this ideal creature into an interesting literary character.”” (Smith) F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby used main characters such as Gatsby and Daisy to illustrate different aspects of his life. Gatsby meet Daisy in college as did Fitzgerald with a young lady named Ginevra. Gatsby and Fitzgerald both end up without their true love due to their social status. Ginevra’s granddaughter later told Smith, author of Love Notes Drenched in Moonlight; Hints of Future Novels in Letters to Fitzgerald, “… she said he was always on the outside, looking in.” (Smith) while daisy didn’t say those exact words she had a few of her own that were pretty similar.

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“ (Fitzgerald) all the events may not be word for word Fitzgerald’s experience however all of them are extremely close.
To develop a novel such as The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald used raw emotions and plenty of literary devices.

Irony was used along with setting, imagery, symbolism, and conflict to show how love is not always what it seems. To bring light to each character’s dark relationships, Fitzgerald uses main character Nick to tell the story. Nick is an old money guy living in the new money side of town. He is not supposed to be judgmental, so many of the characters feel like it is safe to come to him and vent. Allowing the readers an inside on how the characters feel and what nick is witnessing. Revealing many insiders on the characters, Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, such as what Tom is doing when his wife Daisy is not around, and how Gatsby tries to take advantage of Toms affair to get closer to Daisy. Daisy begins to run to Nick, who was willing to be Gatsby’s wing man and pushes Daisy towards Gatsby. While Gatsby has money and is carefree and loving it is not enough for Daisy. Daisy explains why it would never work between them. This situation on its own explains one of Fitzgerald’s themes; love is not always what it

seems.
Fitzgerald used irony with Tom and Daisy. While the reader was aware that Tom was having an affair with a woman named Myrtle, they didn’t know that Daisy was aware and just decided to dismiss it. “
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When Daisy and her friend Jordan are talking Jordan tells Daisy she thinks Tom is having an affair and Daisy admits she knew just did not know how to say anything to Tom. She goes to Nick and tells him how miserable she is but tries to explain how her hands are tied. The day she decides to go to Gatsby’s party the irony continues. She begins to pursue a relationship with Gatsby but Tom starts to figure it out and gets mad about it. The reader has no idea Daisy does not plan to continue the relationship with Gatsby it was just a fling for the moment. “

“(Fitzgerald). Gatsby may not know about Daisy’s decision to not fully commit to him, but the readers are aware which gives an example of dramatic irony for Fitzgerald to build his novel on with the theme love is not always what it

seems.
The setting in The Great Gatsby is painted out to be this perfect place to start a life with a loved one, but, while taking a deeper look into what happens to the relationships of those who live here, it is far from perfect. The two eggs, West Egg and East Egg, and the Valley of Ashes are where majority of the story takes place. All three of these locations have relationships that are heading for disaster. while Gatsby is chasing after Daisy, Tom is still having his affair with Myrtle and Daisy is just sitting back watching all of it. Daisy takes in the idea that she will not love Gatsby in that way due to the simple fact he is from West Egg, he is new money and he is very different from her. Myrtle is facing the same type of reality with Tom when she starts on him about Daisy. For the simple fact that she mentions Daisy’s name Tom smacks her across the face. “
“ (Fitzgerald). The action Tom took to silence her was enough to make her realize that she is from The Valley of Ashes; she does not have a real shot for someone like Tom who is with someone like Daisy. Location of each character will determine who they end up with even if that does not reflect how that person acts.
To put into perspective how much Gatsby cares for Daisy, Fitzgerald uses imagery. Gatsby has a beautiful house which he uses to throw these giant parties that will end with the house being trashed, but he continues to throw the parties just to get Daisy’s attention.
The green light at the end of Daisy’s porch that Gatsby stares at throughout the climax of the book is a symbol for Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy. Gatsby sees this green light as a sign to continue his pursuit for Daisy. The meaning was more to show the distance and that the love he is chasing is not possible anymore. It may have been possible five years ago but Daisy is married and has moved on from the puppy love phase with Gatsby. The clock that Gatsby almost broke was a symbol explaining something quite similar to the green light; what was in the past is no longer in the present or future. When the clock drops and Gatsby saves it he thinks that is a way of saying he can fix his past with Daisy, however misses the point of what was actually trying to be communicated to him.
The conflict that was developed between characters is the key element to the disastrous love that brews between select characters. The conflict between Tom and Gatsby is all due to Toms jealousy of Daisy and Gatsby flirting. This jealousy becomes so strong at one point in the book that Tom becomes more controlling of Daisy; who she is hanging around, how much time she is spending with Gatsby, where she is. Eventually Tom will get cocky and brush off the jealousy because he knows Daisy is not going anywhere especially with Gatsby. He knows he has convinced her that Gatsby is too different from them and she would not be happy with him. He lets Gatsby drive to town with Daisy while he drives with Nick, he explains to Nick how he is not worried and how he knows he has Daisy wrapped around his finger. When they stop at George Wilsons garage, George explains how he found out Myrtle is having an affair. Thus creating another conflict with characters. George Tom he does not know who she is cheating on him with, but he knows it is happening and he plans on taking Myrtle and moving.
Myrtle runs away from George which ended in her death; she gets hit by a yellow car. The same yellow car that Gatsby and Daisy were driving around in. George assumes that whoever was driving the yellow car must be the same person Myrtle has been cheating on him with. Tom tells George that the car is Gatsby, however the readers know that it was Daisy who was driving the car when it hit Myrtle. Gatsby is so blinded by his love for Daisy that he would take the blame for hitting Myrtle. George drives to Gatsby’s house and kills him and then kills himself. Georges love for his wife resulted in three unexpected deaths, and Gatsby’s love for Daisy results in his own death. The fake love that Daisy let Gatsby pursue allowed her to skate by the consequences that she would have paid had Gatsby not have taken the blame. To further the idea that love is not always what it seems, Gatsby thought he had something with Daisy, but Daisy knew she had plans on pursuing Gatsby in the same way he was pursuing him. Similar to Gatsby but not identical, George Wilson thought he had Myrtle all to himself, but she was being unfaithful and had an affair with Tom behind his back. The ones who were in love but could not have love ended up six feet under.
The Great Gatsby was a brilliant novel that described many things; love being one of them. The idea that love is the same with everyone and that everyone will have love the way they may deserve it is impossible to expect. Fitzgerald does a great job using these literary terms and more to capture that idea.