The Great Gatsby Daisy

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"The Great Gatsby" (F. Scott Fitzgerald) is always considered to be the "must read" novel by book critics around the world. The Modern Library ranked The Great Gatsby in second place on the list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. Time magazine honors The Great Gatsby as one of the 10 greatest literary works of all time. F. Scott Fitzgerald manages to define, praise, and condemn what is known as the American Dream in his most successful novel, The Great Gatsby. The novel is set in 1922, and it depicts the American Dream and its demise through the use of literary devices and symbols on the characters Jay Gatsby, Daisy, Nick Caraway. The setting of this novel is in Long Island in 1922, the beginning of a later period, dubbed the "Roaring …show more content…

Most notably in Daisy is not the beauty of "tilted water", but in the way of speaking the pronouns, the lengthening of the syllables, the accent of the bass down as a fun music. Daisy's seductive secret is a cackle, whispered, so that the listener should come close to her. The love of Jay Gatsby's life, the cousin of Nick Carraway, and the wife of Tom Buchanan. She grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, where she met and fell in love with Gatsby. She describes herself as "sophisticated" and says the best thing a girl can be is a "beautiful little fool," which makes it unsurprising that she lacks conviction and sincerity, and values material things over all else (Fitzgerald 17). She has some experience in this area and implies that the world is no place for a woman; the best she can do is hope to survive and the best way to do that is through beauty rather than brains. Although Daisy seems to have found love in her reunion with Gatsby, closer examination reveals that is not at all the case. Although she loves the attention, she has considerations other than love on her mind. First, she knows full well Tom has had affairs for years. Might this not motivate her to get back at him by having an affair of her own. When Daisy bows her head and sobs into the shirts, she is displaying her interest in materialism. She doesn't cry because she has been reunited with Gatsby, she cries because of the pure …show more content…

After he graduated from Yale and came back from the World War I, he wanted to experience a more fashionable life in the East and to make more money by selling bonds. In the book, he mentioned: "Instead of being the warm center of the universe---so I decided to go East and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man"(Fitzgerald 5). In the East, he encountered people like Tom Buchanan, Daisy, Gatsby, and all the other people who struggled for their American Dreams. He witnessed all kinds of tragics, such as the mistress of Tom, the lies of Baker, the irresponsibilities of Daisy, and finally, Gatsby's death. He was anger by all of those people and things going in the East, where people are cold hearted and greedy. Nick felt his American Dream was useless, because he couldn't stand living with a lot of phonies who didn't care about the others and even their lives. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..."(Fitzgerald 179). So, Nick's American Dream was also destroyed by the cruelty of the other people and returned to the West. Maybe in Minnesota, Nick could stay with people who still kept their morals and the

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