The Great Gatsby Daisy Betrayal Quotes

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

Gatsby and Daisy had met years prior, but ended up going their separate ways. However, Gatsby remained in love with Daisy and longed for her affection. The two reconcile, and Daisy starts seeing Gatsby outside of her marriage with Tom. In this, Daisy is leading Gatsby on by making him believe he will attain his ultimate dream: a life with her. However, Daisy knows deep down she will not leave Tom for Gatsby. This is proven when a confrontation about the affair sparks between Tom and Gatsby, and Daisy attempts to defend Gatsby and stick up to Tom, but ultimately fails and retreats back to her husband. “Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever courage she had had, were definitely gone” (Fitzgerald 135). Daisy’s carelessness shines through in leading Gatsby to believe she would abandon Tom for him, but fails to follow through. She recklessly broke the heart of the man who had been in love with her for many

In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan plays a significant role as a mother, wife, and lover to another man. Before her marriage with Tom at age nineteen, Daisy fell in love with Gatsby and was left heartbroken when he did not return from war. Her mother ended up forcing her into her marriage with Tom because Daisy received a letter from Gatsby and realized she still had feelings for him and did not want to marry Tom. Daisy went on to give birth to her daughter Pammy and although struggling with her relationship with Tom, she still wants to stay with him for the sake of her family and their image. Throughout the book, The Great Gatsby, Daisy demonstrates how she is discouraged, indecisive, and cowardly through

Daisy leaving Gatsby is one of the greatest examples of the moral decay of people in this time period with the growth in wealth. Her and Gatsby had something special together when they were younger and all of that was taken away when she had realized that social status meant more to her than her true feelings. “At his lips’ touch, she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”(Fitzgerald, 117). This is how she had really felt, she had wanted to kiss him and had loved Gatsby. He had waited for this moment with this “golden girl” forever and finally there was kissing her. They were young and in love. "She's not leaving me!" Tom's words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby. "Certainly

Daisy’s past catches up to her when she meets Gatsby endangering the marriage, according to Tom, of him and

Gatsby portrays himself as a generous and wealthy man who would keep away from trouble as much as possible. When Nick attends one of Gatsby’s parties for the first time, a guest named Lucille told him, “‘I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address-- inside of a week I got a package from Croirier’s with a new evening gown in it’” (47). Because one of his guests’ evening gown ripped in his party, Gatsby expresses to the public that he is generous and responsible by buying that guest a “new evening gown”from Croirier’s.” He also wants to convey that he is quick to apologize for any inconvenience that he causes, which shows that he wants the public to ascertain that Gatsby’s true attitude to be kind and comforting. However, Gatsby reveals his true motive as he discusses the first party in which Tom and Daisy attend with Nick. Gatsby remarks, ‘“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,” he said, nodding determinedly. “She’ll see”’ ( 110 ). Gatsby confirms his great need to “fix” his life problems to his liking, suggesting that Gatsby holds a great deal of power and desire. Craving for his perfect life with Daisy to be reestablished as it was in the past asserts the fact that Gatsby in fact wants more than just Daisy’s love-- Gatsby lusts for recognition and power. Gatsby’s love for Daisy conceals his desire for more than he could attain through an honest lifestyle, as he turns to the illegal selling of alcohol during the time of Prohibition to create a seemingly quick and easy fortune in order to satisfy his hunger for greatness and admission into society. Though Gatsby may seem to be a generous and responsible character who loves Daisy in the story, Fitzgerald unveils Gatsby to be a character filled with an insatiable thirst for approval and having the

“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’ ” (Fitzgerald Chapter 6). This is when it is very clear what Gatsby is trying to accomplish, his goal is to get Daisy to abolish all the experiences she’s had with Tom. Gatsby wants Daisy to follow his ideals and to try and spark their past together. Although Daisy is stuck between choosing Tom and Gatsby, she realizes that the past cannot be relieved, because she has experienced too much with Tom, and that Tom also has a major influence in her

Another character who’s dream is ravaged is Daisy Buchanan. She was in love with gatsby but settled for Tom. Daisy shortly into the marriage find that tom is hiding something from her. A quote that reveals tom has a mistress to the reader is when Jordan Baker says “She might have the decency not to telephone him a dinner time. Don’t you think?”(Fitzgerald,20).

Giving in to seduction from the lord's wife would not only be discourteous to Sir Gawain's

Gatsby essay We as humans often crave love but we are also victims to Lust, there are times when we hurt the ones closest to us when we fall prey to cheating in the end we lose those who were like gold to something that could never compete. Cheating in the Great Gatsby is expressed through F. Scotts Fitzgerald’s Characters Tom and myrtle whose relationship puts a strain on Tom’s marriage but also through Gatsby and daisy’s forbidden adventures, that leads to great consequences. In the beginning of the Novel Nick visits his distant cousin Daisy and her husband Tom who live just across the bay from him while he is there Fitzgerald begins to add in factors that lead us into the start of the conflicts. While at dinner the phone rings and the tension in the room has come to light, “Tom’s got some woman in New york (fitzgerald 15).”

Gatsby wanted more and more of Daisy and he will not rest until she tells Tom that she never loved him. Gatsby goes as far as to plan a dinner party so that Daisy can tell Tom in front of everyone and this dinner party ends up being his down bringing. At the party even Daisy goes as far as to say ““Oh, you want too much!"-"I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past."-"I did love him once – but I loved you too."” (Fitzgerald 261). Gatsby’s greed and obsession with wanting more and more sees to it that Gatsby will never fully achieve his dream. Fitzgerald also uses his character Tom, the husband of Daisy, to show that the American Dream cannot be achieved. Tom seems to have everything, a big house, a beautiful wife, lots of money from a successful sports career, and the freedom to spend it as he pleases. However, he too wants more, “[Tom] nodded sagely. “And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."” (Fitzgerald 251). Tom knows that what he is doing is wrong but he makes excuses for his affair and acts as if what he did was justified. Even though he has a beautiful wife he still wants more and this drives him to having an affair with Myrtle. Fitzgerald uses these characters to show the false reality that is the

The only thing holding her to Tom was their marriage and the fact that they had already had a child together. Gatsby on the other hand was someone that she had loved for a very long time but had nearly forgotten about as she moved on with her life. Gatsby wouldn’t let her have feelings for anybody else whatsoever and that exclusivity made Daisy nervous. She wanted to be with Gatsby because she enjoyed it, not because she felt bound to it like she did to Tom. Yet when they all traveled into the city and Gatsby forced her to say that she had never loved Tom, she was reluctant to do so as she did love Tom for a while, even breaking down crying in the movie adaptation. Gatsby became so obsessive over Daisy that he was trying to erase the past rather than just be happy that he had gotten Daisy back in the first place. In both the novel and the book, it was heavily apparent that Gatsby’s love for Daisy was more than just an innocent little crush but something more dangerous. An innocent crush never leads to two people dead. The power of these two scenes is not lost in translation between the movie and the novel and is one of the best things about them

This causes great conflict between characters, however Fitzgerald conveys that her attitude is really aimless and unfaithful and this is revealed in the text where Gatsby shows Daisy his house. During the war, Daisy leaves Gatsby because of his lack of money and social status, and when she meets him again she “[bends] her head into the shirts and [begins] to cry stormily”pg 89 in a way at which she regrets not staying with Gatsby. However Fitzgerald further exposes her unfaithfulness when she “Told [Gatsby] that she loved him”pg 113 yet is married and will not leave Tom due to his social class in society. Daisy’s is also revealed as a coward after Gatsby’s death when “she and Tom had gone away... and taken baggage with them”pg 156 with no intention of attending his funeral or recognising him has a lover of

This quote explains how easily influence Daisy was by money and material items. Furthermore in the novel the reader finds out, through Jordan’s story, Tom has a history of cheating from their honeymoon upon their current present, “The girl who was with him got into the papers too because her arm was broken-she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.” (Fitzgerald, 82). The fact that Daisy knew of her husband accounts and did not do anything downgrades her as a woman, who during that time could have left him. After five years not seeing one another, Daisy is reunited with Gatsby.

Gatsby remembers Daisy as the pretty girl from North Dakota he fell in love with when he was in the military. He soon sees that she is different, although he denies it, even to himself. In order for Daisy to have a relationship with Gatsby, when they first meet he lies and says his parents are actually wealthy. This is the first example of how society dictates Daisy’s life. Because of her social status, Daisy must marry a rich man, preferably from old money, according to society. When Gatsby leaves, Daisy promises that she will wait for him, yet she instead marries Tom Buchanan, an extremely wealthy man who her parents approve of. Even when Tom cheats on Daisy, and she is fully aware of it, she refuses to leave him. She loves her status and money so much she will not give it up even at the expense of her happiness.