Do you believe in the American Dream. Have you ever actually sat down to thinks about what you want and what will satisfy you? The name of the book is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mr. Jay Gatsby is a very confused man who is always trying to satisfy others in order to satisfy himself. Gatsby is being placed like a stack of cards. Daisy is a big part of this. Daisy is a very confused and immature lady; she doesn't know what or who she wants in her life. She mentions that she loves Gatsby. A quote of this even is when Daisy says: " Even alone I can't say I never loved Tom,..."(133) One day both Tom and Daisy go over to Gatsby's house. Jordan and Nick are also over at Gatsby's house. While Tom is in the room Daisy said "I love you" to Gatsby. Tom saw Daisy lip that to Gatsby. Tom became a little suspiciousness of what is going on. Daisy did not know that Tom had seen that, nor Gatsby was aware. Evidence is this is where it says "She has told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw."(119) There is another part in the book where Daisy mentions to Gatsby that she loves him. Gatsby makes a request for Daisy to let Tom know that she never loved him. Gatsby is convinced that she will do this and it will satisfy them both. When Gatsby suggests that Daisy go ahead and do it, Daisy is not as convinced and sure what she is doing, because she has had a relationship with both Gatsby and Tom, In the end Gatsby ends up looking stupid because he thought he had everything planned out right, and Daisy doesn't really know what she feels for them both. Gatsby is as unrealistic as an imaginary friend . Gatsby can not and does not realize that things with Daisy have changed. Even though Nick had men... ... middle of paper ... ...hat big of a deal but he knew that Daisy wanted a wealthy man. "Her voice is full of money."(120) This quote shows that Gatsby is aware of what Daisy is and what she wants. Gatsby went of to war and Daisy felt the need for comfort, so she was sleeping around. A section of the book that mentions this is :"...she was keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men,..." (151)In the end she found Tom; he was wealthy and was built like he was a safe man because he's buff. She ended up marrying him because being stable and his physical appearance wasn't an issue with him. The only part that Tom didn't have but, he still ended up with Daisy was the affection that she needed. In conclusion Gatsby had never been satisfied in the past with himself and in the end he still wasn't satisfied with anything because things didn't go how he had pictured them.
Explain the two conflicting attitudes the narrator has toward Gatsby. What is the effect of this paradox?
"I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out”(229) Tom isn't just going to stand around while gatsby tries to steal his wife from him even though he cheats on her almost every night. Tom actually loves her deep inside even though he cheats on her “He nodded sagely. "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in awhile I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time." (252)
and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute, she’d look around uneasily and say ‘Where’s Tom gone?’” (Fitzgerald 83). Gatsby tries to convince Daisy that she loves him and only him, yet Daisy actually loves them both. After Daisy was married she could think about anything except Tom, while Gatsby has spent the past five years dreaming of the day he could meet her again.
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After finally realizing the situation, Tom agrees with Daisy's suggestion that they should all go to New York together. Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby's car; Gatsby and Daisy ride together in Tom's car. Stopping for gas at Wilson's garage, Nick, Tom, and Jordan learn that Wilson has discovered his wife's affair and plans to move her to the West. Nick perceives that Tom and Wilson are in the same position. Tom begins his confrontation with Gatsby by mocking his habit and the fact that he claimed he went to Oxford.
Tom suspects that Gatsby and Daisy are having a relationship, but has no evidence to prove it. However, whenever Tom would leave the room, Daisy would immediately run into Gatsby’s arms to show her affection. To their dismay, Tom sees this: “She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw” (Fitzgerald 126). This leads to a confrontation between Gatsby and Tom, where Gatsby boldly declares that “Your wife [Daisy] doesn’t love you …She’s never loved you. She loves me” (Fitzgerald 139). Gatsby feels untouchable, and his confidence in Daisy’s love for him allows him to declare this to Tom. However, Tom slowly gains control of Daisy, reminding her of the experiences they shared together. Realizing this, Gatsby becomes desperate, and attempts to force Daisy into saying things she doesn’t believe, but Daisy tells Gatsby the truth: “’Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom… It wouldn’t be true’” (Fitzgerald 142). Gatsby is delusional because his only thought is proving to Tom that Daisy doesn’t love him, and fails to realize that he is slowly losing Daisy. He is once again so absorbed by Daisy that he fails to realize what is going on around him. Even after Daisy runs over a woman murdering her in cold blood, Gatsby is willing to take the blame for her, and states “of course I’ll say [to the police] I was [driving]” (Fitzgerard 154). Gatsby still loves Daisy after she commits murder, which is a testament to his obsession and delusion over her. Gatsby is willing to go to prison and lose everything because Gatsby still believes that Daisy loves him despite Tom proving
Daisy knows she still loves Gatsby, but doesn’t want to leave Tom’s money, so she hides the way she feels. Gatsby figures out that Daisy is not going to leave Tom and he finds this out as he watches over Daisy, as he tried protecting her the day Myrtle was killed. Nick observed Gatsby as,”[he] walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight, watching over nothing. ”(145) This is when Gatsby finally got the message and he now knows that Daisy will never be with him.
For five years, Gatsby was denied the one thing that he desired more than anything in the world: Daisy. While she was willing to wait for him until after the war, he did not want to return to her a poor man who would, in his eyes, be unworthy of her love. Gatsby did not want to force Daisy to choose between the comfortable lifestyle she was used to and his love. Before he would return to her, he was determined to make something of himself so that Daisy would not lose the affluence that she was accustomed to possessing. His desire for Daisy made Gatsby willing to do whatever was necessary to earn the money that would in turn lead to Daisy’s love, even if it meant participating in actions...
Like the author Garrison Keillor once said “ I believe in looking reality in the face and denying it” ,but in this tale , isn’t very wise. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, some of the character are in disillusionment, but the one that is constantly in it is Jay Gatsby.Although, people can do this, Gatsby tries to recreates the past and never considers Daisy’s reality.Through Gatsby’s choices, Fitzgerald displays his argument that people should accept reality .
Daisy Buchanan, in reality, is unable to live up the illusory Daisy that Gatsby has invented in his fantasy. After Daisy and Tom Buchanan leave another one of Gatsby’s splendid parties, Fitzgerald gives the reader a glimpse into what Gatsby’s expectations are. Fitzgerald claims that “he wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” (109). Here it is revealed that Gatsby’s one main desire is for Daisy to go willingly...
In the first part of the book Gatsby throws a number of large parties, hoping Daisy will come to one of them so he can pursue her. Unsuccessful, he manipulates Nick into arranging a meeting between himself and Daisy. Nick has Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby for tea. Subsequently, Gatsby invites them to go for a ride with him. Thereafter, Gatsby tries to drive a wedge between Daisy and Tom, but though she claims to love him, her love is as superficial as the image Gatsby has created with his money.
Gatsby had been working for so long to make Daisy his, that somewhere along the way his love turned to obsession. His Dream is not the pure thing it started out to be. His first step in fulfilling it was to become wealthy, which he did through corrupt means. He was filled with hope that once Daisy saw his wealth and how much he still loved her, that she would leave her husband Tom and come be with him. He even “bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 83). In an attempt to make this come true, he and Daisy began to have an affair. The amorality and dishonesty of this only solidifies the fact that Gatsby’s dream was corrupted by his desire to have Daisy, as if she were an object not a person. Gatsby also never took into account that Daisy may have already fulfilled her dream. She was, even throughout her affair with Gatsby, content with her life with Tom because he gave her the life of luxury she had always dreamed of. Daisy’s dream was corrupt from the beginning. Her desire for money won over her desire for love. As for Gatsby’s dream with Daisy, “it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city…” (Fitzgerald
When Nick visits Daisy she tells him the story of how her daughter was born, “It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about––things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling.” By leaving Daisy behind at a time when she most needs him, Tom loses his value of companionship with Daisy. He no longer fits the three criteria that Daisy feels she needs in a man. Daisy knows that Tom no longer loves her and is having an affair with another woman, but despite all of this, Daisy has no intention of leaving him (20). This is because Tom, despite no longer fulfilling her emotionally, is still better for her financially and socially than if she left him to live alone. If Daisy wants to stay in her class, she has no option other than to stay with Tom. When Daisy finally sees Gatsby again, she suddenly has another option besides staying with Tom. Daisy knows that Gatsby has true feelings of love towards her, but leaving Tom would prove to be risky as it could tarnish her reputation and by extension her social stability. Daisy is now struggling between taking a risk for love and maintaining a safe, stable life she is ultimately unhappy
His naivety that Daisy will once again love him as well as his stubborn personality and his belief that a person can ‘repeat the past’ plays a key part in Gatsby’s death. He is so blinded by his dreams of wealth and glamour that he fails to distinguish Daisy’s true feelings for him. Daisy complains, ‘Oh, you want too much’ which highlights Gatsby’s greed and ambition for wealth. He wants more than Daisy’s love. He wants society to believe and accept his fakery; he wants to achieve ‘thoroughness’ and ‘realism’ in his story. Daisy exclaims that she ‘loves’ Gatsby but to him that ‘isn 't enough’
Daisy was Nick’s second cousin once removed, and Tom Buchanan was Daisy’s hulking brute of a husband and classmate of Nick’s from college. Jordan Baker, a prominent tennis player of the time, was staying with Daisy and Tom. As they sat down and chatted, it was Jordan who mentioned Gatsby, saying that she had been to one of his extravagant parties that he held every weekend. The four sat down to dinner when Tom received a phone call, which Daisy suspected to be from Tom’s mistress. Afterwards, Daisy and Nick talked and Jordan and Tom went out to walk about the grounds. Daisy talked about her little daughter and how when she was born Tom was not even there and she had wished out loud that she would be a fool, for that was the only way she could ever be happy. The four met again at the house and then Jordan went to bed and Nick went home.