The Great Gatsby Character Development

He constructs a mansion, throws opulent parties, bathes in luxuries, and uses Nick Carraway as a liaison all to attract Daisy’s attention. Daisy represents everything that Gatsby endeavors for—the narrator compares her to a golden girl. Trying to pinpoint what exactly made her voice so distinctive, Gatsby and Nick conclude that her voice is “full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it….High in a white palace the king’s daughter” (120). The idiosyncrasy of her voice is that it draws one in with quietude and contains promises of secret pleasures such as vast riches, luring men in with her raspy, indulgent murmurs. Unfortunately, Gatsby is too late in realizing that money is not synonymous with happiness, as explored in the following paragraph.

The other characters’ attitudes towards Gatsby's wealth makes everything harder for Gatsby to fulfill his dream of being with Daisy. Tom Buchanan's attitude towards gatsby's wealth was that he was a bootlegger and he made his wealth in organized crime, once Gatsby started seeing Daisy again Tom became curious of how Gatsby made his fortune. This attitude toward his wealth set back the progress that he made with Daisy. "Self-control!" Repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white” (Fitzgerald 130). This shows how Tom's attitude toward the wealth causes problems for Gatsby in the story. Also Nick and Jordan had trouble trusting him because they also have no idea how he has so much money and they are very curious on how he did. As you can see the characters’ can greatly affect what happens throughout a narrative.

The narrator Nick goes into detail about the history and the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy meet while Gatsby is in the army, Daisy growing up wealthy and Gatsby a poor young man has no right being with her, Gatsby gives Daisy a sense of security and they have a short relationship. One night when they are together they kiss and Fitzgerald writes, “She had caught a cold, and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever, and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor” (Fitzgerald 150). While poor people are struggling in life, Fitzgerald refers Daisy to money. Throughout Daisy’s life she doesn't experience, struggles and instead lives a life with money that gives her anything she wants. Gatsby on the other hand is poor and sees what money gives you, Gatsby sees that money puts someone above people like him. In reality Daisy isn't living a life she appears to be, she is using men in the army to fill her void of loneliness, if she doesn't have money the men wouldn't all be in love with her. She puts herself as a prized possession for them to have because she has money. Daisy at a young age, and when she gets older uses her money to assert herself over others.

This idea can be shown through two characters throughout the novel, Gatsby and Myrtle. As they are both stuck in a false reality that was created by themselves and moving up in the social classes is the only way to gain happiness. Gatsby is one of the main characters in the novel. But Gatsby has trapped himself in the past where Daisy had ones loved him. Gatsby truly believes that moving up the social classes and gaining wealth will regain Daisy interest in him and will go back to the past where they have once loved each other. “Daisy, that’s all over now,” he said earnestly. “It doesn’t matter anymore just tell him the truth--that you never loved him--and it’s wiped out forever.” she looked at him blindly. “Why--how could I love him--possibly?.” “You never loved him.” She hesitated” (Page 132 Fitzgerald). It appears to Gatsby that Daisy still truly loves him and is under his command. His attempt to get Daisy to say she doesn’t love Tom was weak, as he is stuck in the past where she had ones loved him. But that is not the reality now. Daisy has moved on from the past and does not love Gatsby as much as she use to anymore. She is hesitance to say she doesn't love Tom because they are married and live a happy life. Gatsby to appears as a man of class and wealth, in a way that he can do no harm. It appears to everyone that Gatsby is a honest man and has earned his money the right way after graduating from Oxford University. This is the false reality that Gatsby has created from everyone to see him, like an image. In reality Gatsby is a bootlegger and has done crime to earn his money. “Absolutely real--have pages and everything. I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they’re absolutely real. Pages and-- Here! Lemme show you.” (Page 45 Fitzgerald). This uncut books tell us what Gatsby’s presents to the world is a facade. He has got everyone believing

One of the major topics that can be explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth. Fitzgerald uses physical location – setting- as a sort of short-hand for the various aspects of American society he wants us to care about. West Egg represents the newly wealthy, the gaudy and improper; East Egg represents the moral hollowness of old wealth, prim and proper but corrupt. New York stands for the pursuit of pleasure, while the Valley of Ashes represents the social and moral decay that has resulted from the unfettered greed and gluttony of society’s uber-rich. Gatsby was not ready and prepared for the corrupt world when he joined West Egg. He is constantly surrounded by evidence of the unhappiness that success can bring. Daisy and Tom’s marriage is an example for this symptom. It is full of deceit and lies and they are both looking for something different and greater. Gatsby is blinded by the fact that money cannot buy love. Therefore, there is a reason it is said that “money cannot buy happiness” - not that rich people aren’t still going to try in Fitzgerald’s novel. As a result, money is not everything, but for certain people it seems like materialism is. Daisy chose money over love when she chose to marry Tom over waiting for Gatsby. She ends up with a cheating husband and with all the money in the world, but no real happiness or sense of fulfillment. Her attempt to find happiness in her material possessions is typical for such

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby details the tribulations that come with being immensely rich or extremely poor. One such example is the original decision by Daisy to bypass Gatsby and instead get married to Tom. Later on in the book, it is revealed that Daisy was in love with Gatsby and he was in love with her, but they couldn’t get married, primarily because they occupy different social strata (Fitzgerald 151). She instead marries Tom and immediately regrets it. Fitzgerald crafted this situation to make commentary on how money and the need to be around it, can cause people to cut

Money, the way Gatsby thought Daisy would join him in a new life. He owns a mansion with plenty of rooms, throws parties weekly for tons of people, shares wealth with people and shows it off with his clothes, car and “house.” In Gatsby’s “younger and more vulnerable years his father gave him some advice....” Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had” (Fitzgerald, p 1 The Great Gatsby). This quote may sound simple, but there is a deeper and special meaning behind it. Gatsby has been taking this advice from his father for many

Gatsby meets Daisy when he was a young military officer. He is just a poor guy. Daisy, also a brilliant and pretty girl just as a fairy, has the most romantic days with Gatsby. Obviously, Daisy impressed herself into Gatsby’s heart during that time. It seems that they deeply love each other, but actually, she is in love less with Gatsby the man, than with the Gatsby’s successful image. To some extent, she falls in love with the wealth of Gatsby. Clearly remember that Gatsby makes the famous remark to Nick before they moved to the New York,” her voice is full of money”.

All daisy wants in life is to keep her social status and power, not to use it but to keep it and even though Tom can provide that she finds an old love in Gatsby that she feels comfortable having now, not because she has him or found him but because he has money now. It all revolves around money for her “Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. ‘They're such beautiful shirts’... ‘It makes me sad because i've never seen such-such beautiful shirts” As Daisy cries over these shirts it's really one of the biggest moments where it shows how wildly she care about material objects, how much it truly means to her to have the finest of things and no less. Because all Daisy really cares about is her wealth she doesn't care how she gets it, no matter if once again Nick is in an awkward situation or that she might not realy love the man who has done everything in his life leading up to that moment for her, she just cares that it's all

The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about a man that is in love and thats wants his love that he had 5 years ago he want to repeat the past. How did Gatsby changes in the book from the beginning, to middle, to end of the book? Gatsby changes throughout the entire book. changes in him are linked to daisy.Gatsby changes and things start going his way, until the end, when he loses everything he worked for.Gatsby changes the most

Throughout the novel, Daisy, a selfish and careless woman, manipulates others with her old money. Which is similar to how she blinds Gatsby with her money, and ties into how she blinds Gatsby from reality. Daisy and Gatsby were in love in their years of adolescence but Gatsby didn’t share the same wealth as her which pushed Daisy away. This comes to prove Daisy’s care for money and only money. Gatsby did everything in his power to have wealth and be successful for Daisy, which she ended up not appreciating in the end. Daisy was born into her old money which was passed down through generations, and Daisy shows that people who were raised in old money didn’t approve

Throughout the novel, Gatsby is constantly trying to gain the affection of Daisy. If he were to win back Daisy, he would in a sense, achieve the American Dream. Yet he can’t because he belongs to a different social class, Gatsby is new money, while Daisy is old money. While talking about Daisy to Nick, Gatsby says. “Her voice is full of money...It was full of money — that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it”(Fitzgerald Chapter 7). While Daisy has been wealthy for year, Gatsby has only recently acquired his newfound riches. The difference is shown very explicit in nature as it becomes the barrier for Gatsby and Daisy and overall their happiness. Gatsby and his party goers, or new money, is described as irresponsible, self-made, and ostentatious. While Tom and Daisy, or old money, is described as elegant, refined, and established wealth. The stark difference in the end leads to the tarnishing of the American Dream for all those involved, as they no longer have hope for a better future. Angela Hickey explains in her analysis of The Great Gatsby, “ Gatsby can never hope to obtain Daisy because he doesn't have the right kind of money”(2). Hickey explains the way that social divisions cause Gatsby to never reach true happiness in order to achieve the The American Dream. In this case, the social differences

Furthermore, Wealth can make someone feel determined. Gatsby was determined to get Daisy, and the only way to get Daisy was to become wealthy. To represent Gatsby’s interception of becoming wealthy, this quote symbolizes his determination and beginning to a happier life; “To Young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world” (100). This quote accurately describes Gatsby’s desires for wealth and his material items. The yacht, which belonged to Dan Cody, was the embodiment of wealth and fortune Gatsby was not familiar with. He lived a low life of poverty, and this was his goal that he wanted to reach. Dan took Gatsby with him and adopted him in a way, which gave Gatsby his start to fortune. Once Gatsby gained all of his fortune, he practically had all of the beauty and glamour in the world. Nevertheless, it always comes back to his lack of true beauty and love. He could never regain Daisy, his true love, and the beauty that he could never purchase.

To begin with, in the beginning of the novel the reader discovers just how rich Gatsby his, and how luxurious his life is. However, the audience later finds out that this his image of wealth all aspires to win back his true love Daisy. The beginning is important for it’s the reader’s first insight into Gatsby’s dream, and for awhile many believe that it would come true as well as Gatsby did. For instance, Nick illustrates Gatsby’s emotions, when Daisy is turning his house “I think he [Gatsby] revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her [Daisy] well-loved eyes” (Fitzgerald 91). Thus, this demonstrates Gatsby dream of making Daisy happy with his materialistic items, and luxurious lifestyle. It also relates to his hopes of making Daisy happier than her husband ever would, and making her see that as well. In addition, while at Gatsby’s house, Gatsby shows Daisy his shirts from england, Daisy confesses, “They’re such beautiful shirts (...) she sobbed (...) I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before” (92). In reference, the real reason why Daisy is so sad and emotional is because she is such a materialistic person, that she becomes overwhelmed by Gatsby’s wealth, and also wishes she could live with Gatsby, and his lifestyle. Because of this, Gatsby begins to believe his hard work has payed off. To put all points forward, Gatsby uses his wealth to pull Daisy back into his life, and hopes that by showing her his

Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald described Daisy as an almost disembodied voice which, Gatsby realized at the end, was ¡§full of money.¡¨ Fitzgerald wrote, ¡§her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget¡¨ (Fitzgerald, 14). It should be noted that, ¡§Gatsby¡¦s ability, like Fitzgerald¡¦s, ¡¥to keep that illusion perfect¡¦ sustains his self-deceptive and ultimately self-destructive quest, with the help of his own fabulous money, to win Daisy back from her husband¡¨ (Meyers, 30).