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How Does Daisy Change In The Great Gatsby

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The life of the Great Gatsby follows the cliche story of a poor man rising to power, all in the name of the woman who caught his eye, the woman who he loves with all his being. The woman who Gatsby himself, changes his entire life goal of believing that he was destined for something so great (as a child of God should) to being a man worthy of the aristocratic debutant beauty named Daisy. Like a man searching for his Holy Grail Gatsby continues to find his way to have Daisy as his. But in Gatsby’s mind, Daisy cannot be his until she says to Tom, her husband of four years, that “she never loved him”(139). Power, prestige, money, and lineage was what made the world of “Old Money” go round and unfortunately for Gatsby, Daisy is a member of that

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