Tom Buchanan And Daisy's Relationship

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates many themes; however the most significant one relates Jay Gatsby’s dream in New York during the 1920’s. Gatsby’s dream is to win Daisy’s love. He believe he would be able to accomplish this by his wealth and position. but a man named Tom Buchanan, stands in his way preventing him from achieving his dream.
Gatsby’s dream is to win Daisy’s love. Daisy Buchanan is a women that Gatsby met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917. Five years after he comes back from war, Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan and Gatsby is now a very wealthy man. Gatsby moves into a mansion across from Daisy & her husband and starts throwing parties to try to gain her attention. Nick, whom is Daisy’s cousin, moves in right by Gatsby's house and is invited to one of his parties. When Nick attends the party, a gal named Jordan

mentions to Nick that Gatsby knew Daisy from a romantic encounter in 1917 and is deeply in love with her.

Gatsby asks Nick to set up a reunion for him and Daisy; this reconciliation restores their relationship and they began to start an affair.

Tom Buchanan, a man who Nick would describe as “sturdy, straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward … you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.” (7). Tom is cruel, racist, sexist, and a cheater, as Jordan exclaims “Tom’s got some women in New York” (15). Tom finally determines that Gatsby’s & Daisy’s relationship is very suspicious. This

is where Tom ultimately engages into Gatsby life to later dismantle his dream from living happily ever after with Daisy. Tom did some research and discovered that Gatsby was secretly a bootlegger; he uses this fact against Gatsby when Daisy, Jordan, Nick, Tom and Gatsby all meet in a hotel room in New York. In this moment is where Gatsby finds out that Daisy’s love does not only belong to Gatsby but also to Tom. Tom and Gatsby starts to argue a lot during their time in the hotel; Gatsby tries deny all of these accusations that were put on him by Tom, but that only pushes Daisy away from him. Tom insists that Gatsby and Daisy should drive back home since she was tired of all the arguing. On their way back Daisy hits Tom’s mistress, Myrtle, on accident, killing her instantly. Since Gatsby would do anything for her, she let him take the blame for someone that she killed cold blood. When Tom learns that Myrtle had been run over, he breaks down and plots revenge on Gatsby. The next day Tom convinced Wilson that Gatsby killed his wife. That day Wilson walks onto Gatsby’s property and shoots Gatsby while he was relaxing in the pool, and then took his own life.
Gatsby’s dream was only to win Daisy’s love. He failed, not because he died, but because Daisy’s love remained with her husband. Gatsby couldn’t impress her enough with the materialistic things probably because she already had a husband with just the same amount of money. Gatsby’s judgements were driven by his fantasy which ultimately got him killed in the end. Life lesson that you can learn here is that money can't buy you true love.