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What Is Daisy's Relationship In The Great Gatsby

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In The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald feels that money can’t buy happiness or relationships.

Daisy only married Tom because he provided her with stability and was rich, Gatsby was away at war and broke. “Take em down - stairs and give me back to whoever they belong to” (Fitzgerald 76). When Daisy got the letter from Gatsby a day before her wedding she broke down and almost didn’t marry Tom because Gatsby was the one she loved. Gatsby spent years getting rich just to get Daisy back. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say. “I never loved you” (Fitzgerald 109). Just because Gatsby has money doesn’t mean Daisy is going to want to be with him and Gatsby can’t see that Daisy now loves Tom more than him. Gatsby had spent most of his life not moving on and waiting for Daisy even though she has moved on. “He has come a long way to this blue lawn, and his and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on …show more content…

“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby only brought his house so close to Daisy so he could feel closer to her. “I love you now - isn’t that enough? I can’t help the past” ( Fitzgerald 132). Even though Daisy is impressed that Gatsby did it all for her she can’t live up to his projection of her, what they had was a long time ago. Gatsby was a generous and nice person but no one knew the real Gatsby because he didn't have any friends. “The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use, Nobody came” ( Fitzgerald 174). Gatsby threw big parties for everyone to come to and wasn’t a cruel person but nobody came to his funeral to pay their

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