A common theme through the end of The Great Gatsby was that the characters were chasing after something that’s unattainable. Myrtle was chasing the American dream because it was the life she didn’t and wouldn’t ever have. The police officer said, “She ran out ina road. Son-of-a-bitch didn’t even stopus car” (pg. 139). We talked in class that the life that she was chasing for was what ultimately killed her in the end. In class, it was mentioned that she went into the road because she thought it was Tom driving back from the city. S Gatsby throughout the book was chasing and trying to get Daisy back when in reality she wasn’t ever going to leave Tom. He wanted Daisy and himself to pick up where they left off when he left for the war. Gatsby
He wants to marry Daisy and he is so determined that not even her husband can stop him. Winning her love is the only thing Gatsby cares about. He tries many times to win her over but fails. However, he is so determined that he never gives up. “‘She’ll be alright tomorrow,’ he said presently. ‘I’m just going to wait here and see if he tries to bother her about that unpleasantness this afternoon.’” Gatsby wouldn’t leave her alone even after he knew he had lost her. Both men have immense determination to get through their struggles.
There was a recollection of the moments that Gatsby and Daisy had together and Daisy was the first “nice” girl that Gatsby had ever known. Gatsby cuddled with Daisy before he left for the Armistice, but after it instead of getting sent home he was sent to Oxford instead. Daisy wanted to shape her life and that decision had to be made by a force of love or money. The force that she was looking for was fulfilled in Tom. Gatsby had told Nick that he thought that Daisy had never loved Tom. Nick made it clear that he was no longer talking to Jordan after an abrupt conversation that they had on the phone with each
Gatsby’s goal of getting back with Daisy is unrealistic because Daisy is already in another relationship. Gatsby does not seem to look past the surface of Tom and Daisy’s relationship and just thinks that this is just another ordinary phase of their lives. He fails to acknowledge that Daisy and Tom are so deep into their relationship that conquering the American Dream is improbable and that he should stop trying to chase something so out of reach.
Gatsby is not only a World War I soldier, but also a business man which means he is used to getting exactly what he wants. In 1917 Gatsby met a beautiful woman named Daisy Fay while he was an officer for the United States Army. Gatsby was then shipped overseas and Daisy was left alone. Daisy married a man named Tom Buchannan, and when Gatsby once again found his Daisy Fay in 1922, he was desperate to get her back. In chapter 4, while Nick Caraway was having a conversation with Jordan Baker, Jordan said, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay." (Fitzgerald 83) This just goes to show that Gatsby will do anything to try and marry the love of his life. This characteristic is also shared with a lyric from the song "Here Without You", "A Hundred Days have made me older since that last time that I saw your pretty face. But all the miles that separate disappear now when I'm dreaming of your face." (3 Doors Down) Gatsby has not seen Daisy in so long that he is getting tired of waiting, so he had a house built on the opposite side of the bay. Gatsby does not care about what Tom Buchannan thinks about his actions, so he carries on with his plan. Even though Gatsby was hundreds of miles away from Daisy at one point in their lives, he still did not stop thinking about her, not even one day. Gatsby even kept a scrapbook of every
“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
Gatsby had a dark past, and Daisy was his flashlight. His eyes to see when everything around him wasn’t clear. So Gatsby was lost without her so he was reaching to his helping tool. Gatsby would do anything for Daisy, but at the end of the novel it didn’t work out because Tom running over his mistress and got Gatsby shoot. He spent his entire life trying to get Daisy back
Because he has change his past before from a dirt poor child who live in Chicago to a child of a wealthy family, he believed that he can change the past between he and Daisy. Gatsby throw all these incredible parties for a long time and hope that Daisy may came. He brought the huge mansion so that he can be near by Daisy. With the help from Nick, Gatsby is success in made Daisy come back to him, But things never go the way we want it to go. In the end, Daisy chooses Tom instead of Gatsby just so she can get away with the crime of murder Myrtle.
It’s as if Gatsby would give up parts of his dream just to be with Daisy and by attempting to do this he loses sight of reality. Even though he seems lost, his sheer determination to get what he wants is
He wants closure about what happened between them. Daisy confronts Gatsby about an affair she had with Tom, and he doesn’t even care at this point because what they had was ‘real’. She claims to love them both but she decides she wants to go back with Gatsby and not her husband. On her way back, she accidently kills a woman on the side of the road speeds off with Gatsby’s car. Gatsby gets blamed for the death and the husband of the woman shoots him. No one attends Gatsby’s funeral but Nick. This goes to show Gatsby really had no body in his life, and his own true love whom he did everything for, didn’t love him equally. Throughout the whole book, Fitzgerald points out that Gatsby was living his American dream, but because his dream was Daisy, he was living his dream out of fantasy not reality.
Gatsby 's fundamental craving in this novel is to win Daisy again from Tom and to have her everything to him. Before he even meets Daisy, he effectively needed to end up well off in any capacity he can and carry on with an alternate life
While Gatsby was a soldier, he fell in love with Daisy Fay. Before he left for war, Daisy promised Jay that she would wait for him, but she did not. After finding out, Gatsby made it his goal to get her back, and after many years, he still wanted her back. In chapter four, Nick says that it’s a coincidence that Gatsby and Daisy lived so close to each other, but Jordan informs him that it was not a coincidence, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” In chapter five, Gatsby shows Daisy a scrapbook he had made for her and she is overwhelmed, she begins crying tears of joy. As stated before, Gatsby was a huge romantic and always had hope that maybe one day, Daisy would come back to him.
"I love you now—isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once—but I loved you too." (84) Gatsby's obsession with her seems shockingly unilateral, and it is clear to the reader that she will not leave Tom for him. You can also see why this confession is a blow to Gatsby. He has dreamed of Daisy for years and sees her as his one true love, while she not even can marshal her love of Gatsby over her love for Tom. Gatsby is too desperate and obsessed, and does not understand that he must move on as it is impossible to get back Daisy. This can also be explained by Daisy’s as we get an insight at her real feelings. As she sad in the quote, she loved them both, and to her those were equal loves. But, she has not put that initial love with Gatsby on a pedestal the way Gatsby has. Unlike Gatsby, Daisy is more tragic, a loving woman who has been corrupted by greed. She chooses the security of money and comfort over real love, and therefore he will never get back
Gatsby was convinced he could alter events from his past because the alternative of accepting his current reality was too difficult. In the beginning, Gatsby and Daisy were in love but were separated because Gatsby was drafted. However, Daisy did not patiently wait for his return
He wanted daisy back so they can live a delightful life together. So when Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom met up Gatsby’s hope was that Daisy and him were going to leaving together as a couple. But when they actually discussed the fact of her leaving him she confessed to Gatsby, “[she] did love tom once--but i loved you too” (Fitzgerald 132). After Tom heard this he knew that Daisy was on his side and not Gatsby’s. Since Gatsby was oblivious to Daisy’s decision, he continued to protect her from any harm that he could prevent. After myrtle's untimely demise, Gatsby decides “ to wait [there] and see if he tries to bother her about that unpleasantness this afternoon” (Fitzgerald 144). Therefore even tho Daisy did not make his dream come true, he still continued to love and care for her. He choose to see the good in Daisy and trusted that she would somehow run away with him and leave
After that, he also goes to show Daisy his mansion, trying to gain her love back by showing her that he had wealth now. All these things considered, Gatsby wanted the old love back in a great deal that he was willing to do anything to achieve his goal of obtaining Daisy. Everything he had done in his life to this point had been to get Daisy back.