Daisy's Suffering In The Great Gatsby

Following the war, Gatsby attempted to receive an education by studying at Oxford. From this point on, Gatsby dedicates him self to gain the love of Daisy back. He did this by acquiring millions of dollars, a gaudy mansion in West Egg, and his extravagant parties. As the group of friends, Nick Caraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Jordan Baker, travel into the city, Gatsby and Daisy make their love for each other obvious. Daisy and Gatsby ride in a car, separate from the group, to the city. Gatsby has the belief that Daisy is truly in love with him, and not with her husband. Upon arrival to the hotel, the group began sitting and conversing, when Gatsby tells Tom, “She never loved you.” This is referring to Daisy and Tom’s marriage. This is where a heated dispute begins and Daisy finally explains to Gatsby that, “Rich girls don’t marry poor boys.”

Gatsby’s passionate view of life may partly be due to his inability to achieve his dream. Although he has made his wealth through extorting and conducting doubtful business deals, his heart seems pure and cast, untouched by the moral evil that surrounds him. “He has lived not for himself, but for his dream, for his vision of the good life inspired by the beauty of a lovely rich girl”. Gatsby’s inspiration comes from Daisy Buchanan, whom he knew when he was in the military during World War 1. Daisy’s parents considered that Gatsby was not the ideal match, because he did not came from

A theme from Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, is that money cannot buy a person happiness. This theme applies to Gatsby himself. Gatsby spends about half of his life trying to satisfy Daisy. He obtained an enormous amount of wealth and threw house parties for five straight years. He did this to show off his wealth and to see if Daisy would attend one of his house parties. Daisy is married to Tom and has a child named Pammy. She has feelings for Gatsby but, she eventually stays married to Tom. Throughout the book, Gatsby has an obsession with Daisy that he cannot get over. Nick says that, “He [Gatsby] knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realize just how extraordinary a “nice” girl could be. She vanished into her rich house, in

Jay Gatsby, an exotic millionaire philanthropist, has everything and anything a man could ever need. He lives a life most could only dream of. A life full of massive parties, sports cars, mansions, and booze. Yet he is missing something, he is missing the only thing that could make him truly happy, to live a life with Daisy Buchanan. "He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. (pg 119). He was in love with Daisy, and he opened up to her, only to lose her to Tom who had the money to support her. Money could not buy Gatsby happiness and finally ends up destroying him.

"All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever" (44 eBook) This phrase never becomes as clear as is does at the end of the book. In the book "The Great Gatsby" written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character Gatsby, is shot by George Wilson after he thought that Gatsby ran over his Wife. Even though Mr. Wilson shot Gatsby he is not the one to blame for his death. The person to blame for his death is himself. Gatsby caused his own death because he loved Daisy too much, he got caught up in the moment, and he had no other choice.

Gatsby was in a relationship with Daisy before the war; they both loved each other very deeply. But sadly they were separated because Gatsby had to go off and fight in the war. Gatsby couldnt support Daisies lifestyle because at the time Gatsby was poor, he could barely feed himself, and Daisy was born into wealth. Nick confronts Jordan, and Jordan tells Nick about Gatsby's history with Daisy. Gatsby's house is almost directly across from Tom's house, and Jordan said to Nick, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.”(Page 83). Gatsby has all of the money he would ever need, the one thing in his life that he doesn't have, is someone to love, the woman that he wants is Daisy. Even though Daisy is a married woman and she also has a child, Gatsby thinks that she's going to give it all up to be with

Gatsby’s affluence was fueled by his love and compassion for Daisy, who’s shallow ineptitude distracted her as she fell for Tom Buchanan’s inflated ego and old money. Sadly, Gatsby’s dream of a life with Daisy was not only an illusion, but in reality an obsession—like the American Dream

With a source of wealth secured, Gatsby could now attempt to relive the past to the moment that he dreamt of for so long (Meehan 4-5). Gatsby soon acquired an abundance of wealth and had created a security that could be used to comfort Daisy and eventually win her over. When Gatsby first fell in love with Daisy, Nick stated, ““He might have despised himself, for he had certainly taken her under false pretenses. I don't mean that he had traded on his phantom millions, but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself--- that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities-- he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.””

By writing The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald was able to let out all of his emotions that had been bottled up since he married Zelda. Gatsby realizes early on that to please a woman like Daisy, he was going to need money, and a whole lot of it. But when Gatsby went away to the war and did not return, Daisy needed to find someone that could afford her lavish lifestyle. Still in love with the poor soldier, Jay Gatsby, Daisy agrees to marry Tom Buchanan for his wealth. When Gatsby returns, he spends the next several years of his life building a financial empire for himself. When it was complete he buys a mansion right across the water from Daisy’s. He then begins hosting these spectacular parties at his home. Afte they reconnect through Nick, Daisy falls in love with Gatsby’s new life. At one point in time, Daisy possibly loved Gatsby, but just like with her marriage, money was the number one priority in her life. When Tom reveals that Gatsby is a dishonest man and is illegally making money, Daisy ends their affair and goes back to Tom who was still having an affair himself. Gatsby did everything in his power to win Daisy back since she was his American Dream. However, Daisy’s American Dream was her own lavish lifestyle. She would stop at nothing, including killing her husband’s mistress and allowing Gatsby to take the fall for it, if it meant keeping her husband and all his money. Gatsby’s dream was unattainable since Daisy, his dream, loved money more than she loved

Daisy should have taken her intoxication and emotional breakdown a day before her and Tom's wedding as a sign that maybe their marriage was not meant to be. I think her heart knew she was making one of the biggest mistakes of her life and that Tom was not her true love. I do believe she did "love" Tom, but she was not in love with him. Tom was her official rebound or rather a replacement for Gatsby. Once she started to developing feelings for him, why give him up? If she could not have Gatsby, Tom was her next best option like a consolation prize. It would not have caused her so much emotional pain if Daisy married the person she truly was in love with. Subconsciously, Daisy's mind knew the same unfortunate truth, which led to her having a

The biggest dream of Gatsby is to win back Daisy. Even his determination to become rich is largely because of his desire for Daisy. In Gatsby’s opinion, Daisy equals what he wants to possess: the money, the power, the social status and the true love. In fact, Gatsby invests Daisy with an idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations. Gatsby always lives in his dream that Daisy is the purest goddess and she never stops loving him. As long as he is no longer poor, they can be together. Gatsby firmly believes that he and Daisy can repeat their romantic past and he has the power and wealth to do so. But unfortunately, Daisy is just a selfish and vanity-loving

Gatsby’s obsessions are not limited too simply possessing wealth, but they also extend to the manner in which it was acquired as well. First Gatsby claims having attended Oxford, and even goes so far as to flaunt Nick a picture,“ A souvenir of his Oxford days…” (71). Gatsby openly avoids mentioning how long he was at Oxford and why he was there. The small dishonest taste that Gatsby has of Oxford only serves to make his desire to change the past more consuming than ever before. Gatsby wants a simpler time, a better time with more noble aspirations. Gatsby uses the photograph to undo his past. In addition, Gatsby furthers the tales of his grand life insisting that he lived in all the capitols of Europe like a rajah. Fitzgerald proves Gatsby’s stories to be lies beyond any reasonable doubt. Jay sounds like a fool, and his condescending willingness to underestimate the intelligence of his listeners proves he acts as a fool. Gatsby’s false stories suck him deeper and deeper into the abyss that is self-worthlessness. Finally, the rainbow that Jay Gatsby follows through life has the ultimate treasure at the end –true love. The desperate alteration of his past serves only one purpose, to impress the shallow Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby innocently assumes that his money and accomplishments can buy anything – even

The love and effort that you put into a single person or a dream, a desire, will not last forever, it will change shapes, sizes and manifestations and sometimes it turns into something we end up dreading. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, our mysterious, yet gorgeous hopeless romantic and portrayer of the rags-to-riches ideal, Jay Gatsby, is haunted by the desire he has for his true love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby dreams of a future, ‘a happily ever after’ with her, a married woman. Towards the end of the of the novel, his is love for her is yet again being compared and challenged to that brute of a man, Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, by Daisy herself. Their abrupt confession of love in front of the brute spirals out of control

Gatsby’s has a strong passion to attain Daisy as his lover- his most prominent desire. He is still stuck in the past where he had once shared the

Just five years prior to the present time, lieutenant Jay Gatsby is sharing his life in Louisville with Daisy Fay, the most popular young girl in the city. An extremely poor man himself, Gatsby uses his occupation to seem much better off than he actually is, attracting Daisy. Deeply in love with each other, Gatsby is forced to fight overseas in the war and wants Daisy to wait for his return back. However, as time passes, Daisy longs a companion and her greed for wealth drives her away from Gatsby. In the literary article, “Possessions in The Great Gatsby”, author Scott Donaldson describes Daisy’s urge for wealth as far too much, claiming, “The limitations of this background finally make it impossible for him to win the enduring love of Daisy Fay Buchanan” (Donaldson). This desire for materialistic goods is what prohibits Gatsby from ever being truly happy, for she leaves him while he is away to marry Tom Buchanan, an extremely rich man who went to Yale University.