Examples Of Relationships In The Great Gatsby

Some people may take away the responsibility that Daisy has over her actions saying that marrying Tom has made her come a victim to the crude force of Tom’s money. Daisy believed that Gatsby had money; that is why she loved him in the first place. At the time of her marriage to Tom, she had already promised to marry Gatsby, but she made the choice to break that promise and marry Tom. Even when she got a letter from Gatsby right before her wedding, she went through with it, proving that although Tom’s money may be a “crude force,” in the end she knew what she wanted. She knows that by marrying Tom the love that she could’ve had with Gatsby would be lost. This shows what is most important to her.

Tom and Daisy both have almost created an excuse to their carelessness mentioning that Daisy is a Catholic. Nick however, knows that this is not true. Daisy is actually a money addict in the novel. She values materialistic items such as Gatsby’s shirts and house over that of actual love and relations. In the article “For the Love of Money” discusses the addiction as, “Wealth addiction was described by the late sociologist and playwright Philip Slater in a 1980 book, but addiction researchers have paid the concept little attention. Like alcoholics driving drunk, wealth addiction imperils everyone. Wealth addicts are, more than anybody, specifically responsible for the ever widening rift that is tearing apart our once great country. Wealth addicts are responsible for the vast and toxic disparity between the rich and the poor and the annihilation of the middle class.”(Polk 2014). This illness, is seen often as a good thing, the idea that of gaining more wealth to better yourself in society. In reality however it creates a cycle of pain and suffering. An isolation from society and its customs, replaced by a desire of green and selfishness, which is what Daisy is suffering from. Daisy refused to defend Gatsby’s honor by not confessing to the murder of Myrtle which she intentionally committed. Daisy refused to show Gatsby her true affection by telling

One of Daisy’s biggest sins included misleading her husband by marrying him. Tom Buchanan remained deceived with the impression of Daisy loving him. After she cut her ties with Gatsby, she set off on a new adventure, transforming her normal life into riches. Daisy “wanted her life shaped now, immediately-and the decision must be made by some force- of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality” and soon “that force took the shape of Tom Buchanan”. Tom’s kindness attracted Daisy the first time they met. But as time progressed, she grew infatuated with his money more than his personality. The little glimpse of greed from her youth developed into a powerful force which took control of her emotions. To Daisy, the importance of money overpowered her will to achieve happiness. Daisy’s love rang once for Tom but Jay Gatsby answered her call. She cheated on her husband Tom because she desired Gatsby more. On the day of Myrtle’s death, Daisy confronted both Tom and Gatsby with her true emotions by confessing “even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom… It wouldn’t be true”. She loved Tom but since Daisy’s with Gatsby, she doesn’t love him anymore. Daisy broke the vows she made to Tom when they married each other. Breaking the promise of marriage gave her the thrill she always dreamed of in her youth.

Love can be both a beautiful and dangerous thing. It can destroy people’s lives, but it can also build new and beautiful lives for others. Everyone experiences love at least once in their lifetime. It can take over a person’s life, never thinking about anything else except that other person who they are in love with. The Great Gatsby is just one book that shows how love can change how a person sees the world and how they act. The novel follows the lives of a group of people and the ups and downs of the love between some of them. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald represents to the reader how love can both change and destroy other’s relationships and lives with each other while still being a beautiful thing.

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.

Gatsby was not willing to accept the fact that he could not get with his dream girl Daisy. The major issue in his life was that he was way too desperate to be with Daisy. "...he says he's read a Chicago paper for years on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy's name.” (Fitzgerald 64) This quote shows again how desperate he is for Daisy. Gatsby thought that he could change Daisy’s mind into leaving Tom for him. He also couldn’t accept the fact that Daisy would never leave Tom because Tom was old money and he was new money. He put himself in between Tom and Daisy’s marriage, which gives Tom hatred towards Gatsby. Which then eventually led to his death. All of these actions he did towards Daisy, led to his own death. But it is still not entirely Gatsby’s fault. If Daisy would have just told Gatsby that they couldn’t be together and stop playing with his feelings, he would have never gotten killed by George. It possibly would have made him heart broken for a while, but it’s better than

One of the many themes in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is that security and comfort is the underlying root of relationships. One example how this theme is true is when Myrtle is jealous of Daisy because she does not have the same security as Daisy. Also, when Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby because she feels more secure with Tom. A third example is when Jordan gets engaged to someone who is more wealthy and stable. Another example when Tom and Gatsby are talking about who Daisy is going to go with.The last example is when Gatsby tries to develop a stable and comfortable life for Daisy. Proving that in the end, security and comfort is the underlying root of relationships.

As Gatsby and Daisy continue to indulge in their love for each other, tensions with Tom and Daisy rise. In the final confrontation between Gatsby and Tom, Daisy’s world comes spiraling down. She is struck picking between Tom and Gatsby and confesses to Gatsby, “Oh, you want too much!’...‘I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.’...‘I did love him once – but I loved you too.” (132). This confirms that Daisy is not the kind-hearted person that we were introduced to in the beginning. Instead she is a selfish woman who only acts for herself and her husband, and she will never be the same in the reader's eyes. The choice should have been easy after all that she went through with Gatsby in the past but she shows that there is always another side to the coin. The situation escalates and finally plateaus when Gatsby attacks Tom. Tom confident that he has won over Daisy, signals them to go home. In a flustered mindset Daisy accidently runs over Myrtle on her way back and Gatsby takes the blame. He explains to Nick, “Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back” (143). Fitzgerald portrayed her as a morally good person but when she purposely slams Myrtle with a car it is shown otherwise. Daisy

Daisy does not even have the decency to show up at Gatsby’s funeral even after everything he had done for her. In the following secondary source from an article by David F. Trask, he talks about Daisy and says, “At first happy in this marriage, she later discovers that Tom is having affairs. She withdraws into a dream world, yet never loses interest in the illusion of her love with Gatsby. Daisy flirts with him and entertaining his obsessive interest until she commits murder and he takes the rap. Then, she hides behind the protection of her husband, a cruel brute, who uses and abuses people. Moreover, Daisy's voice is the voice of money, as Nick discovers. Her whole careless world revolves around this illusion: that money makes everything beautiful, even if it is not. The danger is, like Gatsby, she carries the "well-forgotten dreams from age to age." Her spiritual lightness parallels her material wealth, and she hides behind Tom when Gatsby is in danger.” (David F. Trask)

“The quiet lights in the houses were burning out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars.” (Fitzgerald, pg 71). I never really fell ‘out of love’ with that boy, though a boy he was and but a girl was I when we were together. I’ve always been mature, though, so naturally I developed adult feelings for this charming little knight in shining armor. However, it was not to be. Nor, as it seems, shall it ever be - no matter how much Gatsby and I might dream of reliving those happy golden days. “I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before … She’ll see.” (Fitzgerald, pg 71). Like Gatsby, I was also put in some state of reverie by the glorious and ridiculous dreams of devoted adoration I put into the person I dreamed I was in love with. “He had thrown himself into it [loving Daisy] with all of his creative passion… decking [his fantasy of her] out with every bright feather that drifted his way.” (Fitzgerald, pg 62) Loving like that - with rose-colored glasses so foggy with infatuation that you can’t see anything except what you want to see - is dimwitted and destined for devastation. It was that passion that blinded Gatsby from seeing the truth: the world moves on. Not even someone who we thought hung the moon just for us can stop

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his was. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart." (P 101) While Daisy wasn't happy in her marriage, she would never leave Tom for this low class fellow. For a small time, she too was caught up in his glorious dream, but she never believed in it the way Gatsby did. Gatsby lived his life to please Daisy; this was part of the relationships fatal flaw. He worked so hard to prove himself worthy, but in the process he lost who he really was. Daisy is so into self-satisfaction that in order to make herself feel better she uses Gatsby, not caring that she is toying with his heart. Both parties are to blame; they are so self-serving they never stop to look at the real world and how what they do affects others.

The love needs to be a “once in a lifetime” kind of love. Finally, there has to be a resolution to the problem between the lovers, which will then unite the lovers. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is not a true love story because the qualities of a true love story are corrupted in it. In The Great Gatsby, there is not just one pair of people who fall in love; there are multiple.

In Gatsby’s eyes, Daisy’s love is sharp and hurtful, yet for the viewer, her reasoning as to why she does not run off with Gatsby is

She has no idea how to keep a good, loving relationship. When she was with Gatsby, who was poor at the time, she always expected something. Daisy expects Gatsby to still be poor before she sees him, so she already feels the need to find a better man. She meets Tom Buchanan and begins to use him for his wealth. Once she realizes that Gatsby is rich again, this becomes a love catastrophe for her because both of her love interests are wealthy. Daisy is focusing so much on Gatsby, that she cheats on Tom, and Tom becomes jealous. She never stays steady because she constantly flips flops between Gatsby and Tom throughout the story. She was with Gatsby for a while for his wealth, but she drifts off and begins a relationship with Tom. “Jay Gatsby met her once and began a romance, but the romance ebbed and Daisy married Tom Buchanan” (Bloom 18). Daisy loves Gatsby, yet leaves him for Tom. She starts to love Gatsby again while she is a Buchanan.

One major relationship in this novel is between Tom and Daisy. Even though they are married, they do not have the best relationship. Daisy was in love with Gatsby five years ago, but while he was away she met Tom and got married. She is shallow and