Daisy And Jay Gatsby Selfish

Gatsby’s goal for a part of his life was to become rich and be a better man in Daisy’s eyes. Now that Daisy could finally see what he had accomplished, Gatsby is in a daze, as if nothing that is happening is real. Next, he starts to think that the five years of dreaming and imagining of this day did not seem as great in reality. He had formed such an ideal of how Daisy would perform, that it did not seem to be living up to his dream.

Gatsby explains how he wants to rekindle his relationship with Daisy and he is desperate to repeat what they once had. He wants it to seem as if the past had not happened and that Daisy never married Tom. If he could go back he would but he cannot so he will do anything and everything it takes to get Daisy back and fulfil the perfect picture he has in his head. This shows Gatsby’s love for Daisy because he is willing to do anything to win her back.

Daisy’s love starts to turn into the sole reason Gatsby wants to be rich;he wants to impress her.

In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's main dream that is that he wants to eventually be with Daisy forever; and Gatsby wasn’t a generic man, so he would go through whatever he had to just to be with Daisy. Gatsby made Daisy really start to fall in love with him when he had Nick (The main character in Fitzgerald’s novel) invite Daisy over for tea, and then they went to Gatsby’s enormous mansion (Fitzgerald PAGE). It became obvious as the story went on that Gatsby’s wealth was the main reason that Daisy was falling in love with him. Inside the mansion Daisy started crying tears of joy when she saw Gatsby’s collection of extravagant shirts (Fitzgerald PAGE). Little did Daisy know that Gatsby had made

As time progressed, Gatsby created a more exquisite dream that he wished to live out with Daisy after she left her husband for Gatsby. He pictured everything about the dream, how everything would happened and what everything would become. After some time Gatsby and Daisy got to meet again, but Gatsby noticed a difference in her that '"her voice was full of money"'(120). While Daisy did love Gatsby once she fell in love with money and the idea of a perfect life, but even though Gatsby saw that he essentially was still blinded by the love he had for her to understand that his dream to be with Daisy had crumbled. As Daisy and Gatsby started to see each other more often Daisy seemed to go along with anything Gatsby said, at least till her husband found out about them. Once her husband found out Gatsby came to the realization that she did once love him, but she also loved the man she was married to and that she would never really leave her husband for

Gatsby was so fixated on this woman that he was ready to do whatever he felt it took to get Daisy back. Without Daisy having to do or say anything, Gatsby changed his life from being a poor man in Louisville, to the richest man in West Egg, all in hopes of attaining Daisy. One thing I find funny about the pursued is that not only do they always get what they want, but they also get things they do not need. Gatsby noticed that Daisy was not the same person she was five years back in Louisville. “Her voice is full of money,” (120).

      Gatsby's tragic flaw lies within his inability to see that the real and the ideal cannot coexist. Gatsby's ideal is Daisy. He sees her as perfect and worthy of all his affections and praise. In reality she is undeserving and through her actions, proves she is pathetic rather than honorable. When Daisy says "Sophisticated-God I'm sophisticated" (18), she contradicts who she really is. The reader sees irony here, knowing she is far from sophisticated, but superficial, selfish and pathetic. Gatsby's vision is based on his belief that the past can be repeated, "can't repeat the past? Why of course you can" (111)!  The disregard for reality is how Gatsby formulates his dream (with high expectations), and the belief that sufficient wealth can allow one to control his or her own fate. Gatsby believes youth and beauty can be recaptured if he can only make enough money. To become worthy of Daisy, Gatsby accumulates his wealth, so he can rewrite the past and Daisy will be his. He establishes an immense fortune to impress the great love of his life, Daisy, who can only be won with evidence of material success.  Over the five years in which Gatsby formulates this ideal, he envisions Daisy so perfect that he places her on a pedestal. As he attempts to make his ideal a reality things do not run as smoothly as he plans. Daisy can never live up to Gatsby's ideal, though

The first dream that does not get fulfilled is the one of Gatsby. He starts off as an underprivileged boy and struggles his way to the top. We make his acquaintance when he is on the top of his life. He is enjoying his big house and his vast wealth. The one thing he cannot have is his lovely Daisy. Gatsby’s story reflects the “classical” American dream: Anyone can make anything of himself/herself with just elbow grease, spirit and a whole lot of confidence. Jay loves Daisy and, sadly, she is the one thing which he cannot procure to his “perfect life”.

Gatsby worked so hard to get himself from Jay Gatsby to The Great Gatsby. Everything that Gatsby did and still will do is for the sake to get Daisy back and it proves it when he waits for five years to buy a mansion, “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual...to a stranger’s garden”. He Got money for her and try to impress her with his house, “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some… went on Jordan.”. Tried to impress her with the money, “They’re such beautiful shirts”, she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before”. Although Gatsby went to war, trusting that he would get back and get married to Daisy, instead he got tricked and Daisy went off and married Tom. After all that Gatsby did for Daisy’s love, that’s how she repays him. So she got married to a wealthy guy called Tom and got a daughter from him. Daisy loved money and loved Tom which is materialistic and so she prefered money than the true love that she had. In chapter one, Nick visits Daisy because he didn’t see her for several years, and he sees the awkward love between Daisy and Tom, Tom was away from the table and so Nick tries to cheer up Daisy and asks her about her girl. Daisy becomes even more sad than before, “she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her

Everything Gatsby has done for the past few years have been a preparation for his life with Daisy. He truly believed that wealth is a very important component in getting the love of his life, however, he did not realize that it is not the number one priority for a happy, successful

Gatsby does not belong to his own class and he is not accepted by the upper class, therefore he becomes an exception. Because of disappointment of being looked down upon and impossibility of accept by the upper class, he has nothing left except his love, which is also his “love dream”. Gatsby’s love for Daisy has been the sole drive and motive of his living. Gatsby’s great love is also the root of his great tragedy, because he is desperately in love with a woman who is not worthy of his deep love. Fitzgerald offers Gatsby with the spirit of sincerity, generosity, nobility, perseverance, and loyalty. All his good natures can be seen

Daisy’s impact on Gatsby is immediate and cathartic. As “the golden girl” she represents the ultimate prize, “the best part of a world […] of heightened, refined delight, the realization not only of [Gatsby’s] desires but of generalized desire as well” (Fitzgerald 127, Lathbury 60). Inevitably, in the limitless capacity of Gatsby’s imagination, Daisy is elevated to the ideal, becoming the embodiment of “the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves”

Gatsby uproots his entire life, changing his name and adopting questionable morals, just to entertain the idea of being the recipient of Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is documented throughout the novel by his actions and the thoughts that motivate them. He puts his whole life on hold, and ultimately to an end, for the possibility of rekindling the romance he once had with Daisy, morality be damned. Gatsby sacrifices his name, his morals, and his life to have a chance at a relationship with a married woman he loved before. Gatsby’s actions are for purely selfish reasons, he wants Daisy back. The reader cannot help, however, identifying and sympathizing with Gatsby as he ventures on his quest to reclaim the love he and Daisy once shared. Although the novel deals with greed and materialism leading to despair, evident through Gatsby’s wealth leading him to death rather than life, one cannot help but hold out hope for a happy ending. Gatsby is a character who is clearly morally wrong, but is favored by the reader to finally fulfill his wish of having Daisy through any means necessary. Gatsby’s character is the biggest example of the theme of the novel, him being “great” yet still not able to use his wealth to gain

After the war, Gatsby’s only goal was to posses enough wealth to bring Daisy back. He acquired millions of dollars from businesses he did. “Gatsby bough this house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78). His love for Daisy was the only thing that made him the man he was. He was intelligent, rich and even famous, all because of her. He threw big parties were many celebrities went and were thousands of dollars were spent in liquor and food just to call Daisy’s attention. “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night…” (79), recalled Jordan, Gatsby’s friend, one night. All that Gatsby possessed was only and exclusively to show Daisy he could give her the life she wanted.

Everyone has an ideal vision of what he or she wants out of life. In a perfect world, everyone would die happy having achieved every goal ever set. A perfect world does not exist. Fitzgerald knows this, and he chronicles the life of Gatsby. Gatsby deeply desires to live out the “American dream.” He wants fame, riches, parties, mansions, but most of all love. Gatsby succeeds in every area except the most important. Gatsby still feels a desire to fulfill his final dream of finding a true love. Not willing to settle for an arbitrary love, Gatsby sets his sights on a young woman named Daisy. The problem is that Gatsby can never have Daisy because she is already in a relationship with another man. Gatsby, still wanting Daisy’s love but