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Jay Gatsby And Daisy Buchanan Relationship Analysis

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The story of the fabulous and wealthy Jay Gatsby and his young true love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is tested in every direction possible by Daisy Buchanan’s husband, Tom Buchanan. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explores the relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan in order to teach his audience the overall message that when trying to gain love into your life with someone special, there is usually someone on the other end that is going to be betrayed in order to get what you want.
Throughout the book, Daisy is faced in having to choose between the old love of her life, Jay Gatsby, or her husband Tom Buchanan. The relationship between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby has always been a mysterious relationship to them. Nick never …show more content…

Throughout the book once Jay Gatsby came back into the picture, you start to go through the second guessing thoughts that Daisy had about her relationship with Tom. It’s a fighting battle back and forth with Tom Buchanan. and Jay Gatsby on who would end up happily together with Daisy Buchanan. Late one evening, Jay Gatsby has asked his close friend Nick to stay late one night until he would be finally free. When Gatsby came walking down the steps , Nick noticed that his tanned skin was drawn unusually tight on his face and his eyes were bright and tired. Nick explained to the readers, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you”.... Just as if it were five years ago.” (Fitzgerald 109) Jay Gatsby wanted Daisy to tell Tom that she never really truly loved him so then she could feel free and happy again like she used to be before the marriage happened. When Gatsby requested to talk to Daisy alone, Tom began to get all defensive and start a slowly moving argument with Jay Gatsby. When Nick added how he would have taken better care of Daisy, Gatsby began to get offended, “”You don’t understand,” said Gatsby, with a touch of panic ….have to steal the ring he …show more content…

Gatsby was looking around him wildly, as if the past were lurking in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. When Gatsby told Nick how he was going to fix everything just the way it was before, Nick explained, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gather that he wanted to recover something …. He could find out what that thing was…” (Fitzgerald, 110) Jay Gatsby’s life has been confused, disordered, and never made much sense, and being with Daisy could of have fixed that so simple in life. When Daisy married Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby lost a piece of his past that meant more to him than he thought which ended up in effecting his daily

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