'The Great Gatsby' Analysis of the relationship between Tom and Daisy.

Throughout the novel Fitzgerald shows that Daisy is self-centered and careless at heart; she is a dreamer who fails to face reality. Continuing an affair with Gatsby with no real intentions of leaving her husband eventually leads to the death of Gatsby. In return she shows little to no concerns over the death of her “love” Gatsby and returns into the arms of her corrupt husband. Tom, who is also unfaithful in their relationship has a mistress of his own who is killed in a car accident while Daisy was driving. Tom as well shows no remorse in her death and moves on like nothing ever happened. Daisy and Tom are the prime example of corruption in both material success and with what wealth can bring; “They instinctively seek out each other because each recognizes the other’s strength in the corrupt

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was born into a life of poverty and as he grew up he became more aware of the possibility of a better life. He created fantasies that he was too good for his modest life and that his parents weren’t his own. When he met Daisy, a pretty upper class girl, his life revolved around her and he became obsessed with her carefree lifestyle. Gatsby’s desire to become good enough for Daisy and her parents is what motivates him to become a wealthy, immoral person who is perceived as being sophisticated.

In chapter one of the novel The Great Gatsby, the central couple presented are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. These two partners, although different, have similar personalities but also have contrasting differences. Throughout chapter 1, these two portray that wealth is better than everything else, and they both revolve and base their lives on it. Also in this chapter it shows the hardships and difficulties they have in their marriage. They are both never satisfied with what they have, and are always longing for more. During chapter 1 it was apparent that Tom and Daisy had an unstable relationship.

As readers can see, Gatsby has his own set of unique characteristics differing from these of Tom. Gatsby is a passionate and kind person. He lives in West Egg, which contains people who have new money. He came from a poor family, "his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people" (Fitzgerald 104). He struggled with obtaining enough money to make it through college. He is a loyal and good-hearted man who loves Daisy and strives for her true love. He is willing to do whatever it takes to win her love. Her love becomes one of the prime reasons he desires to be rich. However, Daisy cares solely about net-wealth and therefore, chooses Tom. Throughout the novel, Gatsby shows how he is a romantic dreamer by always dreaming of Daisy truly falling for him. His unrealistic approach to life causes him to be often disappointed. He believes that he actually might be able to win her love when he really has no chance with her.

Despite Daisy being a dislikeable character, there are some instances in which the reader feels sympathetic towards her. A big factor is the affair that Tom has with Myrtle. Daisy knows that what her husband is doing, but she still stays with him for the fact that they have a daughter together and for financial support. When Nick first sees Daisy's daughter, she says, "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." By this she means that if her daughter is in the same position she is in her marriage, she won't know of the affair that her husband might have. The reader feels bad for Daisy because she is not being treated the way a wife is supposed to be treated. That is why she is yearning for love, and Gatsby was there to give it to her. Another time is at the hotel suite scene. She doesn't know who to choose from-Tom or Gatsby. She's torn between two lovers, and both of them have their own reasons for loving her, and why she should choose them. Gatsby has a lot to offer her, and loves her for who she is. He succeeded in life just to be with her. Although Tom is having an affair, he questions her about their love, and that Gatsby cannot take his place.

Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby’s relationship was damaged by their contrasting social classes, but also because he had a lack of status and wealth. In relation to this Daisy married Tom for his wealth and status not for his love, which suggests Daisy is a materialistic character is more concerned about her money and possessions than she is about intellectual and spiritual objects. “Gatsby is an idealist, he seeks for

Next, she found Tom and was soon engaged to him. On the night before her wedding, she received a letter from Gatsby. It said how much he missed her and couldn 't wait to reunite with her. Daisy could have left Tom because she knew that Gatsby was going to return. He was still in love with her, but she had made her choice.

Daisy and Tom’s egotistical behaviour caused them to do things that eventually led to the fall of Gatsby. Daisy is a careless person who does not realize that her actions affect people and this is shown when she leads Gatsby on, making him think that she is in love with him and that she will leave her husband, Tom, for him. She is not loyal and she loved two different men

Daisy is a young woman who married Tom Buchanan, who comes from "old money" and is very wealthy. He is a "man's man." Before she married Tom, she had met Gatsby several years previously and they had fallen in love with each other. "She was feeling the pressure of the world outside, and she wanted to see him (Gatsby) and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all...There was a wholesome bulkiness about his person (Tom) and his position" (Fitzgerald 151). This shows that Daisy does love Gatsby but there is a wall separating them so they will never be together. This wall is Tom Buchanan, a symbol of everything Gatsby is not. Sadly, Daisy needed someone who could provide the status she was used to. When Daisy and Gatsby first met, Gatsby was poor but was going to war so he neglected to tell her about his circumstances because he felt as if he could not have her if she knew he was not part of her world. After the war was over and Gatsby’s circumstances had improved, he felt that he could win Daisy back because he believed that he had become Daisy’s ideal. “I heard you fired all your servants. I wanted somebody who wouldn’t gossip. Daisy comes over quite often…” (Fitzgerald114). This shows that Gatsby and Daisy have renewed their relationship and that he will do

One day before Daisy's wedding with Tom Buchanan, she received Gatsby’s letter which made her cry. She realized that the wedding is a horrible mistake and she still has feeling for Gatsby. However, Jordan and her maid mad Daisy to marry Tom. Since the wedding, she has been unhappy because she does not love Tom and never heard anything from Gatsby

     Daisy falls for the same shallowness that Gatsby does. She doesn’t love Gatsby for who he is—she does like him for his personality, partly, but it’s mostly because he has the money now, and is therefore much more qualified to be with her. Daisy really doesn’t want to be with Tom, for example, “I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband” (p. 76) Jordan says, on how Daisy felt after marrying Tom. She wanted Gatsby. Or rather, she wanted to have a nice husband that would be a caring, rich gentleman. And Gatsby fills that idea up perfectly.

The reality of this is that Daisy lives a very comfortable life with no worries or complaints about it, and she would never leave Tom, who fulfills her every desire for a man like Gatsby. Also, both the book and movie were centered around Gatsby, readers of the book, and audiences of the movie are drawn toward his sense of mystery, how no one really knows what he does, or what he had done to get all of his money and popularity. He is a person people want to be, people want to know, people want to talk about. He is, in a sense a celebrity, by today's standards.

He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions” (149). Gatsby felt that Daisy’s glamour and wealth must have made her attractive to other men, “it increased her value in his eyes” and held more appeal than her love for him. However, at the same time, Daisy 's desires are also driven by wealth, but she is not attracted to the new money that Gatsby has. Tom’s old money is much more appealing to Daisy. The two men fight over Daisy and in the end she chooses Tom because of his historic wealth.

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

Daisy Buchanan has a similar lifestyle to Tom, she’s wealthy ‘voice is full of money’ and always wore ‘white’ symbolising her purity and wealth. However as a woman of a higher class, there not much she can do in her ‘shallow life’, as she has the money but doesn’t know how to plan events ‘what do people plan?’. This shows that she is not content with her knowledge and understanding of life therefore even with money she isn’t ‘happy’. This leads her to ‘have an affair’ with an ex-lover whom she so adored before she married Tom ‘I did love him once – But I loved you too’. In the novel, Daisy only every seeks true love when she’s with Gatsby but ‘a rich girls don’t marry poor boys’, so due to this social difference between them, she knows the only place she will ever have security is with Tom. Tom describes their affair as a ‘presumptuous little flirtation’ because to Daisy, she knew she was never going to marry Gatsby but to Gatsby it was just never