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Comparison Of Fitzy And The Great Gatsby

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In some way, we all are similar to Jay Gatsby, the main character of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; we all change different aspects of our lives to please others, what we know and believe is cultivated by what is around us and what we want to achieve. The tale of the Great Gatsby follows Jay Gatsby who designs his extravagant life around the premise of being reunited with his long lost love, Daisy Buchanan. In attempts to win her over from her arrogant and supercilious husband Tom, he is able to turn his life around. He goes from young, strapping, and poor, to wealthy, renown, and frivolous. The fictional novel was published in 1925, and has odd parallels to its author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Daisy is propagated in the sense that she is put upon a florid pedestal of ditzy perfection. She is made out to fit a role that was thrust upon her. This role became a mask for her to hide her true thoughts and emotions. The mask became so important to her as she thought it protected her from being taken advantage of and being vulnerable. What she didn’t realize is this mask allowed for the men in her life to take advantage of her “ditziness” even more. “Young and Beautiful” by Lana Del Rey attests to Daisy Buchanan’s insecurities about loving Jay gatsby in Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby because she is worried about the pain and repercussions of loving Gatsby by letting go of all of her baggage.
Leaving Tom for Gatsby scares Daisy because he has been a constant in her life

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