Daisy In The Great Gatsby

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character of Daisy Buchanan undergoes many noticeable changes. Daisy is a symbol of wealth and of promises broken. She is a character we grow to feel sorry for but probably should not.

The American Dream is described as a get rich fast scheme.This fits Daisy perfectly because she knew Gatsby long before she knew Tom. Daisy came from money unlike Gatsby and she felt that she couldn’t marry a poor person because she wouldn’t remain happy and successful so she decided to marry Tom who was very rich. “Her face sad and lovely with bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth.” This quote describes her perfectly and represents both the American Dream and the American Nightmare because her unhappiness shows, but the description shows her beauty. Daisy also can’t let go of her idea of the American Dream. “The danger is, like Gatsby, she carries the well forgotten dreams from age to age.” This shows Daisy needs to carry on with her happy perfect life because she has money. She can’t take full responsibility when she kills Myrtle so she leaves Gatsby for her husband. Daisy also doesn’t go to Gatsby's funeral because it would of been dream she shared with Gatsby, but with no evidence Daisy can keep living her life with money for her happiness and

The American Dream is one of the most prominent themes present in the novel, The Great Gatsby. Each unique character envisions their own version of the american dream. One of the main characters of the novel is Daisy Buchanan. She is the wife of Tom Buchanan and lives in an extravagant mansion in the East Egg. She possessed many aspects of the stereotypical American Dream: wealth, dignity, and popularity. However, similar to many characters, she desired more and more. The American Dream reflects the corruption Gatsby conveys about the American Dream, since all of the wealth and prosperity Daisy desired didn’t come through hard work but was inherited through the marriage of Tom Buchanan. Daisy didn't marry Jay Gatsby because Tom Buchanan could provide Daisy her deepest desires: living a comfortable life, having a perfect child in a happy home, and being the epitome of beauty and perfection.

Gatsby’s meeting with daisy compared to his expectations of this meeting was not far off. In the begging they were both timid, at one point Gatsby got up and left daisy all only. But later in Gatsby’s house they warmed up to each other, they were admiring all of Gatsby’s belongings. By the end of the chapter they were holding hands and could be described as being in love with one another again. I don’t know what more Gatsby could want or expect because she is still married to tom. I’m shore his expectations were let down because everyone hopes for so much but little ever comes close. But I think that today expectations were as close as they will ever be.

So feel extremely disappointed, and barren spiritually. And thus people started to get into the blind pursuit of material pleasure. In the early 1920s, businesses were also prevailing, and a new Jazz Age was born. The U.S. at this time, becomes a place where everyone is yearning for money, and people become tools for making money. The purity of the American Dream, which was originally regards to hardship and self-success was gone forever.

In FSF’s novel the Great Gatsby Nick Carraway’s perspective is poetic, paced and arguably reliable. For example, when he is retelling his first encounter with Daisy Buchanan after many years, his description of her and the room she is in is reminiscient of an angel in the heavens both “sad and lovely” (9). His tone changes, however, as the novel goes on and grows more pessimistic by the page. In the end, his description of Daisy is of disgust and almost pity, “they were careless…” (179). According to Mathew B, “the strongest feeling generated…” The horrible reality of a carefree life that is exhibited so thoroughly be Daisy and Tom in the end is in stark contrast to the desired and glamourous world in which they appear to exist. We hear this regret in Nick’s narration. Nowlin sums up Nick’s voice perfectly when he states, “but…” (28). Nick narrates from a future we know nothing about, unlike the narration of BR his story is tainted somewhat with retrospect. The narrators of both F’s writings operate within equally significant and different eras.

After Gatsby returned from war he found out Daisy married Tom Buchanan, it destroyed Gatsby. So Gatsby set to get Daisy back as his life’s mission, Gatsby threw parties every week hoping Daisy would come to one. Gatsby was hoping she came by hearing his name around town, so Daisy would come looking for Gatsby after hearing his name. Daisy did not even know Gatsby was alive until he told her in a letter. And one day because of Nick’s relationship with Daisy Nick

Will true love itself keep people satisfied and motivated? Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and E.E. Cummings support this idea in their works. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby died protecting the love of his life, and in the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” anyone and noone died satisfied with the love they shared with each other. Both show that love is still present in the world and that there are still some people in the world who actually care about others, Both authors use tone, imagery, and symbolism to reveal this concept.

The theme at the heart of the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald lies in the doomed relationship between the protagonist, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the friend of Gatsby’s whom Gatsby finally confides in at the most tragic moment of his life, the story unfolds against the backdrop of the roaring 20’s.

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”.

     This brings about another face of the argument: does this apply to Daisy as well? Daisy had been pressured to reject Jay Gatsby back during the war since he was a soldier, and short of money. Daisy came from old money, and didn’t see Gatsby as a suitable mate for her solely on his monetary status. But now that Gatsby’s ‘all grown up’ and rich, Daisy’s suddenly in love again.

The notion of the ‘American Dream’ is one of the repeated aspects portrayed in this book, since Gatsby’s entire life is dedicated to achieving this. The ‘American Dream’ comprises of grand opulence, social equality, wealth; more specifically, a big house with a big garden, the newest model cars, the most fashionable attire, and a traditional four-peopled ‘happy’ family. To Fitzgerald, the ‘American Dream’ itself is a positive, admirable pursuit. We can see this when Fitzgerald uses personification, “flowers”, to background positive connotations behind the idea of the ‘American Dream’. In regard to Gatsby, he achieves the wealth aspect of this ‘dream’, “he had come a long way to this blue lawn”; however, he was yet to be satisfied because he did not have Daisy. Ever since the very beginning of the story, Gatsby always associated Daisy with magnificent affluence, the white house, and the grand quality of being rich. Gatsby wanted everything ever since he was first introduced to the higher status. But Gatsby felt incomplete and unfulfilled even after getting everything he dreamt of, so he sourced this emptiness as not having Daisy, where in reality, “he neither understood or desired” the motives he thought he once had.

Many would say that fate and free will are two opposing ideas. Though from a philosophical standpoint, they could be the same thing. Maybe free will has an affect on fate, or fate on free will. Or perhaps, everything is a self-fulfilling prophecy, where one believes in free will and acts accordingly, only to fulfill his own fate. In reality, anything that occurs could be considered fate, and not a result of free will, despite that only free will has tangible evidence of causation; choices made.

In the Western Roman Empire politics was the first contributing factor the fall of it. One of the many reasons is because of their unfit emperors. They had many. The ones who were unfit, were greedy and used cruelty to control and keep control of their empire. Not all showed the ability to be the emperor, some of them inherited the throne, and some of the people who did had a mentally unstable personality. Some Emperors were assassinated by their Praetorian Guard for position or money. Once the Praetorian Guard assassinates the emperor, if they had a leader their leader would become the emperor. As a result of the unfit emperors civil wars broke out across Rome. Legions fought one another. The citizens of the

“I have no color prejudice nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.” – Mark Twain