Tom and Daisy's Unstable Relationship

Throughout The Great Gatsby, Daisy demonstrates that she cares most about her wealth and status. Right from the start, she tells Nick that she hopes her daughter will be a fool, because “...that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 17). This guides the readers the believe that Daisy thinks girls should be pretty, but unintelligent, so they can marry a man who’s rich, instead of a man who loves them. If they are a beautiful fool, they wouldn’t necessarily notice or care that the marriage isn’t based off of love. Daisy could be saying this because that’s how she wishes she was viewing her own marriage. She married Tom because he was rich, but now he is cheating on her and she knows it, so she could be wishing that she wasn’t bright enough to care. Nick as a narrator doesn’t explicitly state anything about Daisy wanting her daughter’s marriage to be to a rich man, but Fitzgerald manipulates her speech in order to communicate that idea to the readers.

Gatsby exemplifies an individual who can not always get what he or she yearns for. He possesses more than millions of people have combined, yet is still not satisfied. There is only one thing that Gatsby is destined to have, and that is Daisy Buchanan’s unconditional love. Hence by the name, she is married to another man: Tom Buchanan. The madness begins before Daisy gets married when she shares a kiss of a lifetime with James Gatz. Gatsby allows himself to fall in love with her, and from that moment on, all of his life decisions and daily problems are stimulated by Daisy, and framed around her life. Some may consider Gatsby to be an extreme stalker or nutcase, but in reality Gatsby simply has faith in

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald has created dysfunctional relationships between characters to provoke the audience to react is a specific way. Today we will be taking a detailed look at the relationship between the characters Daisy and Tom and demonstrate how the author has created a dysfunctional relationship between the pair as they fail to meet basic requirements of a healthy marriage of love and loyalty.

Both the book and the movie initially paint Daisy Buchanan as the innocent, beautiful little fool through their associations of beauty, light and purity with the character. However, as more of Daisy’s character is revealed, her selfish, shallow and thoughtless nature is displayed through her reckless actions and she proves herself to be like all the other conceited and careless elites of East Egg. While the movie and the book both stay true to this characterization of Daisy, the movie includes a scene between Gatsby and Daisy at one of Gatsby’s party which Tom, Nick and

Daisy Buchanan is a very materialistic woman. Not only does she marry Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man, she believes that money makes everything better. Her ideologies about wealth, and the fact that she pays dearly for her wealth and fails to care, shows her obsession with financial stability. In a sense, regardless of how badly Tom treats her, she fails to care. Instead, she holds tightly to the idea that money is the cure-all for everything. The night before their wedding, she wants to call everything off and not marry him but she decides to go through with it because of her desire of money. Daisy and Gatsby get reunited 5 years later and Daisy is filled with regret regarding her decision to marry Tom. Tom cheated on Daisy on their honeymoon,

Daisy’s ambiguity is first seen in chapters one, two, and three of the novel. The novel starts with the narrator, Nick, traveling to East Egg, where Daisy and her husband, Tom, resides. Daisy states, “I’m paralyzed with happiness” once she sees Nick. This shows that she’s cordial and warmhearted because she’s thrilled to see Nick. She also was friendly enough to invite Nick over for dinner in the first place. Most people aren’t that close to their cousins. Although there are some examples of Daisy’s virtue at the beginning of the story, there are also some examples of her practicing purely evil actions. She notices Tom talking on the phone with Myrtle. She knows Tom is having an affair, yet she does nothing about it. A

The Great Gatsby is a novel that was published in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in this novel he writes about the Jazz Age in language that marvelously evokes music. The Great Gatsby is a romantic and cynical novel about wealth and he portraits characters in the novel who maneuver themselves in complex or difficult situations. The character Tom Buchanan, is Daisy Buchanan’s husband, which Daisy is cheating on him later with Gatsby whom I’ll explain who he is in a bit, and also Daisy is the main character’s cousin. The main character is a man named Nick Carraway which in the novel he is telling the story in a second person point of view of Gatsby, who is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the big parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows what he does, what made his fortune, or where he comes from. In the novel Tom Buchanan is cheating on his wife Daisy for a woman named Myrtle Wilson who is married to a man named George Wilson, a lifeless man owning a run down garage in the Valley of Ashes. Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are more similar than different because they both got cheated on. They will be compared and contrasted on their attitudes towards women, their ways of showing violence, and their reactions of being cheated on.

Throughout the reading, Tom is viewed as an irresponsible husband and father figure because of how he frequently relinquishes his duties as a man. After he gets married to Daisy, they eventually have a daughter. However, due to Tom’s nonchalant nature, he doesn’t feel obliged to handle any responsibilities concerning his marriage. He becomes an alcoholic and he is pictured as a very arrogant man due to his wealth. His cruel nature was depicted by the author when Nick states that “His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts” (Fitzgerald 9). This statement proves how rude Tom was.

The imperfect characters that exist within The Great Gatsby highlight Fitzgerald’s already fantastic writing the most since it displays his characters from a jaded perspective. This is exemplified in the development of Tom Buchanan and Daisy’s relationship is toxic in the sense that both parties seem to be missing fundamental emotional components. One of these missing components can be broken down into the observation that Daisy must only love money and herself which is why she is an egoist. On the other hand, Tom can also be considered an egoist due to his arrogant attitude in assuming everything belongs to him. In fact, Tom doesn’t care about Daisy at all, he only cares about possessing his trophy wife, which is an extremely sinister trait in any relationship. Hence, the most unhealthy relationship within the book is Tom and Daisy’s because they possess several malicious character traits that debilitate them as couple which are: Tom’s belief that everything belongs to him, Daisy’s inherently materialistic nature, and both of their total unconcern toward each other’s extramarital antics.

Daisy’s decision towards the end of the book was unpredictable; however, it did unravel her character more, and she became a little realistic in how the plot turned out. For example, in the novel, it states “It was all very care-less and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back…to let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (Page 179). This shows that in Nick’s perspective those two characters just blossomed their negative attributes, and I do agree with Nick’s predicament because I saw little hints of their behavior throughout the book. For example, in the literature, it also states “She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw” (Page 119). This demonstrates

In addition to her lack of morals, Daisy is stupid. When the reader meets Daisy for the first time, she complains that Tom is "reading deep

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, similarities and differences arise between two fascinating characters, Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. These main characters seem like two completely different characters but similarities are present. Daisy, “the golden girl” (Fitzgerald 120), is a key factor into what makes these men so similar. While discussing these similar traits, the reader may question why Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby. In the novel, the men’s love and wealth help the audience understand Daisy’s decision.

Daisy finds out that Gatsby achieves his wealth by bootlegging and questionable activities which scares her. Daisy chooses Tom to have a normal, pampered life, she is afraid that she could get hurt if she got intertwined in Gatsby’s business. In this passage: “Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table...He was talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement. They weren't happy...and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said they were conspiring together.” it is believe that Tom and Daisy are talking about their plans for what comes next and moving out west, as they then leave shortly after. This shows that Daisy would rather have a comfortable, safe marriage, rather than be with someone she loved and constantly have the fear of being at

Daisy, on the other hand, seems at first as though she truly does love and care for her husband. While Tom keeps himself at a distance in both relationships, Daisy seems to possess an outright need for his company. This is supported by Jordan’s recollection of Daisy’s behavior towards Tom after marrying him: “If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily and say: ‘Where’s Tome gone?’ and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour, rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight” (Fitzgerald, 76-77). That being said, there are in fact several signs that point toward Daisy not loving her husband at all. Perhaps the most notable is her behavior just before her and Tom’s wedding ceremony, when she is found “lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress – and as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand and [Gatsby’s] letter in the other” (76). Daisy goes so far as to even momentarily call off the marriage altogether, ordering the bridesmaids to “tell ‘em all Daisy’s change’ her mine. Say: ‘Daisy’s change’ her mine!’” (76). Why, then, does she marry Tom after all and seem so in love with him afterwards? People usually seek out partners who will make them happy, protect them from that which they fear, etc. What does Daisy fear? She

and woman, but with a stronger underlying theme of the dying American Dream. Blake Hobby’s says that if one has strong morals, then success will be fully obtainable. In contrast to this, The Great Gatsby shows that one can have poor morals, make unethical decisions, and still achieve prosperity. The focus in this novel shifts from hard work and dreams to wealth and individual greed. Characters such as Daisy Buchanan, are completely selfish. Although Daisy is in love with Gatsby, she chooses to stay with her current husband Tom for his money. Daisy has ignored