Why Is Daisy Told In The Great Gatsby

Tom is incredibly insecure when it comes to Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, as he doesn’t feel like he has the same amount of influence over Daisy as Gatsby does to her. Jordan once said “If you’re a snob, why did you invite him to lunch?” when Tom wouldn’t stop criticizing Gatsby (Fitzgerald 122). The reason why he was making remarks about Gatsby is because he is afraid that Gatsby himself would take Daisy away from him and he’s very emotional at this point, doesn’t know what to do, probably can’t think straight either, so he turns to criticizing him as a way to let all the mixed emotions out of him. Tom might have it all, but so does Gatsby, the only difference is

He cares about her so much, yet Tom has been cheating on Daisy since the beginning of their relationship. It is made clear that Tom does not value her at all, so Gatsby does not deserve the pain he receives when Daisy chooses to stay with Tom over him, because of how much he loves Daisy.

Love is not something you easily throw away or put aside as Tom does when he so freely goes to Myrtle Wilson to have his affair. If Tom claims to love Daisy, which he does, he would not have the desire to go out with other women at all especially not have a full relationship with another woman in another town. Tom is not secretive at all of his relations. On one trip to New York City he insisted Nick meet her, “I went up to New York with Tom on the train one afternoon and when we stopped by the ashheaps he jumped to his feet and, taking hold of my elbow, literally forced me from the car. ‘We’re getting off,’ he insisted ‘I want you to meet my girl.’”(Fitzgerald 24). The fact that Tom is so willing to share with everyone, even Nick, Daisy’s cousin, means he has no shame and doesn’t care that he is stomping all over Daisy’s heart. True love is not a chore and should never be looked at in that light.

First of all, Nick knew from almost the very beginning about Tom’s affair with George Wilson’s wife, Myrtle. Tom introduced Nick to her personally and the three of them, among another couple, spent the afternoon in a hotel getting drunk and partying. Tom clearly had no shame about cheating on Daisy if he was willing to introduce his mistress to his wife’s second cousin. Despite the fact that Tom having a mistress was “insisted upon wherever he was known,” (pg. 24),

Tom attends the party in many ways to try and ruin Gatsby he is critical about everything like also the decorations the people that are there, the way Gatsby behaves. Anything he can criticize of he does so also he attempts to make a rumor that Gatsby is a bootlegger. And decides after the party that he will really get into Gatsby’s past and try to harm him. And this starts to take a path of destruction. It starts becoming clear that Daisy’s love for Gatsby is false just like the love for Tom and there sadly Gatsby’s love that he thought to find when he asks Daisy to abandon Tom and be at his side. So Tom wants to ruin Gatsby and Gatsby wants Daisy which is a pretty big difference and he is not looking for any paypack like Tom is.

When Tom is around Myrtle, he sometimes tries to still have respect for Daisy. Quotes to support this is, “Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face, discussing in impassioned- voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy’s name” and “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (2.37). Tom seemed to have limits or boundaries for Myrtle when it came to talking about his wife, however the second quote reveals how violent he can be and doesn’t treat women well. As to Daisy, Tom get upset with her for having an affair with Gatsby. A quote to support this is, “ I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from nowhere make love to your wife” (7.130). This quote shows how for Tom, it’s okay for him to have an affair but for Daisy to have an affair it’s not okay at

I believe that the character with the most questionable moral compass is Daisy. Even in my first question that I answered, it was showing how questionable her moral compass was. When she had just hit and killed Myrtle, she didn’t even stop to see if she was okay. When Gatsby had just died, she didn’t send a message or any flowers. She even knows that her husband is cheating on her yet doesn’t seem to care. She just lives on as though it weren’t happening. She doesn’t seem like she can tell the difference between what is right and wrong, and acts like the wrong thing she did are okay. This is why I think she has the most questionable moral

Tom and Daisy were both careless for staying in a relationship together. Reasons for this include: Tom criticizing women for going out with the wrong people, but he is cheating on his wife Daisy, with Myrtle. Tom having this affair breaks trust in the relationship and can leave Daisy to feel betrayed. Tom’s carefree affair could be the main reason why she feels it's okay to disregard Tom and go off to mislead Gatsby. They don’t have trust built up to keep from seeing other people.

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

Gatsby from “The Great Gatsby” feels love for Daisy, but he also obsess over her so much that it drives him to changes his whole life style. Gatsby loves Daisy so much he got rich from crime and threw parties to look rich. He obsessed over her so much he even tried to take her from her husband. Gatsby obsessively love Daisy so much it drove him to do some terrible things.

In chapter 1 of the Great Gatsby, the nurse informed Daisy that she would need to prepare to conceive a girl. When Daisy received the news, she recapitulates the disturbing concept that she hopes her daughter behaves as of that of a fool. Daisy feels that one must possess ignorance to the world emerged around oneself to survive in such an environment. The unconsciousness of knowledge prevents women like Daisy to ever face tragic pain and harsh consequences for their actions. Moreover, Daisy implies that she would rather raise a girl that lacks intelligence but appears highly attractive since women rarely gained power in the patriarchal society known as the Roaring Twenties. A lack of respect and opportunities for women appears transparent

Love stories range from princesses to paupers but none can compare to the story of long lost loves. Although a common occurrence in the literary world, it is simply a classic, and no one told it better than F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote from a place of familiarity for he was absorbed in a love of his own which you could see within his writing. Many novels had been written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but The Great Gatsby is arguably his most critically acclaimed piece. Set in the 1920s his main character Nick is a witness to the coming together and the falling apart of two lost lovers, Daisy and Gatsby.

They need to be as careless as Nick ends up thinking that she is, because the world is cruel to women. Though the Daisy of the present has come to realize that more often than not, dreams don't come true, she still clings to the hope that they sometimes can. If Daisy had been a fool, she would have accepted her fate. She would have married Tom, had kids and she would have turned a blind eye to Tom's philandering. But she didn't.

“Daisy is not a fool herself, but a product of a social environment that does not value the intelligence of women.” Discuss this statement with a close focus on the role of women in ‘The Great Gatsby’. showing how your ideas are illuminated in Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’. The role of women is a theme hugely explored throughout ‘The Great Gatsby’. Despite the fact that the 1920s is often known as ’the flapper era’, and the time of the changing woman, most, if not all, of the women in ‘The Great Gatsby’ are presented in a negative light, seeming to imply that Fitzgerald himself disliked this changing woman.

“How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!” Belva Plain, an American best-selling author of mainstream novels, conveys her conviction that a person’s want can be so powerful to the point of incompetence. Jay Gatsby, an emotionally attached character from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, proves this true. Throughout the novel he makes decisions that show his obsession and lack of progression from his one and only love, Daisy. Through Jay Gatsby’s actions, Fitzgerald demonstrates his agreement that a person can become trapped by their desires.