Essay on Gatsby and Daisy

In the world of The Great Gatsby, status and reputation are everything. There are two main social classes in the upper echelons of society: old money and new money. These are divided both by social norms and geographically. For instance, Daisy Buchanan, who is old money, lives in sophisticated and refined East Egg with her husband. Of their adolescence together, Daisy’s friend, Jordan Baker, remembers that, “The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house. She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster..,” suggesting that Daisy enjoyed a privileged childhood (74). Her family is wealthy, and it has been well to do for quite some time.

Jay Gatsby’s is well known throughout New York for being wealthy and powerful. When somebody mentions Gatsby’s name, everyone knows who they are talking about. Gatsby throws extravagant, factious, lavish parties for people of high social status. Gatsby has servants, gardeners, caterers, and live music. Superficiality ran through the veins of those who attend Gatsby’s soiree. The men, known as the Mr. Mumble’s, have girls, barely of age, hanging off their arms, husbands and wives fighting, people getting roaring drunk, men flaunting their wealth

She was a girl with wealth, connections and means—everything a seventeen-year-old boy could aspire to one day attain. It is this illusion that Gatsby falls in love with, not Daisy, and he dedicates his life to become a man that could parallel Daisy in both social status and wealth. “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” (98) Though Gatsby appears to be blinded by material possession and unethical in his means to acquire it, Fitzgerald sets him up to be the hero of the novel by contrasting his virtue to the sea of corruptness and material greed that made up the ambitions of most young folks in the 1920s. True, he made his money through illegal means, but his incredible sense of loyalty is striking against the dishonest, scheming American society. In the novel, it is clear that Gatsby is unfailingly loyal to everyone he loves, from his father to Dan Cody to Daisy, who he dedicated “five years of unwavering devotion” (109) to, even if they were not loyal to him in return.

Everything that Gatsby ever did, his wealth, his social status, and his complete new personality, have all been for Daisy. The corrupted and illegal ways in which Gatsby achieved his great wealth make it unclear whether good or evil notions drive him. Nick notes his immense wealth when he exclaims that Gatsby’s mansion is a “colossal affair by any standard” (5). Nick later learns from Jordan that “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (79). These two quotes show that Gatsby’s wealth is not just for his own personal

Before the war, Gatsby and Daisy fell deeply in love. However, Daisy’s family prevented her from marrying Gatsby because, as a soldier he was penniless. As a result, he spent his life on a mission to acquire wealth, but he did so in an illegal way. Having made his fortune, he moves near Daisy and throws lavish parties in hope that Daisy will leave her husband for him. Unfortunately, his newfound wealth does not earn him respect or acceptance into a higher social class. Rumors about his tainted past circulate, even as the partygoers enjoy his home and food. Gatsby is an outsider, and even when Daisy comes back to him, their love is corrupted by money. In a final conversation, Daisy cries out to Gatsby, “Oh, you want too much!” (Fitzgerald 133). She believes that Gatsby’s desire to have it all-- money, class, and power---have corrupted

Although Gatsby wasn’t born rich and powerful, he puts on this façade of “Gatsby” to attract Daisy as a ploy to recreate their failed love. When Gatsby is first introduced in the beginning of the book, there’s a sort of mystery to him that makes people curious about

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

The book The Great Gatsby talks about a young adult called Jay Gatsby whose life changed in the 1920s where Wealth and Happiness take part in his daily life. Wealth and personal attractiveness and Human Well-Being (Happiness) closely relate to the Great Gatsby. Wealth and personal attractiveness are what people consider suitable traits. These days everybody wants to live in the perfect place, buy the finest clothes, have their children in the best schools, “...women mention earning power at or near the top of the list when surveyed about traits they find attractive in men” (Frank), women think a wealthy men would be the “perfect partner”. Gatsby was born in the low class, he loved Daisy for a long, being from the low class and liking “...by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville” (Fitzgerald 79), had an impact in Gatsby’s life

In the story, the great gatsby, Jay Gatsby has altercations relating to his past events with both daisy and himself. He tries to make himself appear more classy and superior around his peers. His past regarding daisy has been complicated none the least. Their relationship consisted of a back and forth complications where daisy was in love with gatsby, But she didn't want to lose her way of life. Therefore, she married Tom believing that she would be satisfied with Tom as a substitute to gatsby. Even with affection and money, she still regrets Her decision and wishes at some points that she would have waited a little longer for gatsby. In the story, people would question about gatsby me n where he obtained his wealth from and where he comes

Throughout the novel Fitzgerald demonstrates struggle in the lives of characters of lower class, especially through Gatsby’s experiences. Although during the story Gatsby was made up of money and had spent it carelessly, before, he was just “ a penniless young man without a past”(Fitzgerald 149). Gatsby served in the military and when he got back he “journey[ed] to Louisville on the last of his army pay”(Fitzgerald 152). With nothing but his passion and determination to reunite with Daisy he put himself out there to go after the woman he loved, only to discover “Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip”(Fitzgerald 152). He loved her and gave up everything for her but still he was rejected.

Gatsby became involved with organized crime, risking his life and freedom to provide Daisy with a luxurious lifestyle. His method to become rich not only endangered himself, but also his relationship thanks to how shallow, weak, and cynical Daisy is. She craves the security and comfort of an extravagant life, if one of those requirements are threatened,

But Gatsby didn’t realize that Daisy is simply unable to play this role in Gatsby’s life. “She’s the enchanted object, the great American dream, all bright eyes and a voice full of money—and of course she’s the light, that green light, drawing men, moth like, to her flame. ” （ Katie Baker) Absolutely, Daisy was looks like a honourable princess under the decoration of the money, she is so much attractive and gentle that she is like a Man Killer, and everyone would willing to put down their identities and status, chasing to her.

From the beginning of Nick Carraway’s narrative, Gatsby is introduced to the reader as an exception, as special, as someone who had “an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as [he had] never found in any other person and which it is not likely [he] shall ever find again” (2). This introduction to Gatsby sets the readers’ standards high for the man he or she has yet to meet and to know, but upon meeting Gatsby and delving into his world of dishonesty and longing, this introduction to Gatsby comes into question. Gatsby hopes to be wealthy, to win back Daisy, and to be someone important; that was his American Dream and he would do whatever he must to attain it. Essentially, everything he hoped for and worked for was for the sole purpose of impressing Daisy Buchanan, whom Gatsby was still convinced, was “the one”. Gatsby wants Nick to host the first meeting between himself and Daisy because “he wants her to see his house” so that she can see the great wealth he had acquired (79).

Gatsby’s un-rational love driven decisions lead Gatsby to a criminal activity. Gatsby needed to be wealthy and rich first to begin any pursuit of Daisy. Gatsby remarks to Nick that Daisy’s voice “was full of money when they first met. Gatsby is then able to associate Daisy’s connection to wealth. Gatsby’s mindset then shifts to if I become wealthy I may be able to buy the past and morph it into the future; believing money can buy anything (Lewis 51). Gatsby’s perception that the past can be repeated and Daisy’s heart can be recaptured, lead him to be involved in the criminal underworld to sell bootlegged alcohol. When Gatsby’s moved east he takes with him the opportunity and a free for all entrepreneurial mindset; allowing Gatsby to excel in the underworld of New York (Lehan 14). The criminal involvement is undoubtedly romantically driven. What Gatsby failed to realize is that money doesn’t equal money in post war America (lehan57). Where the money came from must also be agreement with the social class structure of post war America. Gatsby runs into a problem that will always conflict with any love plan with Daisy. The fact that Gatsby was born poor, and doesn’t have old money; old money is the only money that counts in post war America. Ironically, in the end Gatsby’s loved allowed him to be a believable candidate of murder compared to Daisy.

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”