Jay Gatsby Love For Daisy Analysis

His actions show that he is not loyal nor respectful towards Daisy, instead displaying apathy and disinterest. In addition to acting uncompassionate towards Daisy, he is also not taking into consideration Myrtle’s feelings. In fact, he lies to her in order to stop himself from being forced into a committed relationship. This lie that Tom tells Myrtle is not only extremely false, but also shows he is simply using her. “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce” (Fitzgerald 33). Tom lying to Myrtle shows he has no intention of marrying her, instead he only wants to take advantage of her vulnerable state. Myrtle is unhappy and desperate to fulfill her dream of moving up social classes. Instead of acting sympathetically towards her situation, he exploits her weakness. Likewise, Daisy and Gatsby’s affair shows similar exploitation for one’s own personal needs over the emotions of their counterpart. Without Tom’s knowledge, Daisy has an affair with her long lost love, Gatsby. Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour… (Fitzgerald 105). During this affair Daisy shows no acknowledgement of Tom’s feelings, the man she married and pledged to be loyal to. At the same time, she is also exploiting Gatsby. Authors say, “...his desire to marry Daisy as an attempt to enter/create

They carry the façade of wealth and happiness, when in reality; they both are unhappy with their marriage and are seeking other partners. Neither of them can take responsibility for their actions, especially Daisy, who kills Myrtle Wilson. Instead they flee into their wealth and leave without a trace. The Buchanan’s traveled cross country because Tom wished to get into the bonding business. Therefore they followed the American dream and headed East, only to be met with difficulties. Tom had met an automotive shop owner’s wife, Myrtle, who desired to be rich, and fell in love. Daisy was originally heartbroken, and upset with her marriage. When they had delivered the Buchanan’s daughter Daisy wept and wished for her to grow up and become “a beautiful little fool” because in the 1920’s world, that’s all a woman can achieve with the American dream. Since knowing about her husband’s affair, Daisy immediately falls back in love with Gatsby once the couple is reunited but can never admit that she once loved Tom also. This becomes a major issue for the estranged couple, and leads to Daisy recklessly driving home from town one day in Gatsby’s car. She crashes into Myrtle Wilson, killing her instantly. Instead of taking responsibility, Daisy flees from the crime scene. The repercussions cost Gatsby his life, but neither Daisy nor Tom attend his funeral and eventually travel away, without telling a

At first, Jay Gatsby loved every part of Daisy, but what was love soon turned into an obsessive illusion of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world. At first Gatsby did love Daisy and spoke of her like no other girl he had ever met, but once he bought his house as close as he did to Daisy it could be seen as more of an obsessive state, after admitting that he thinks Daisy could have never loved anyone besides himself and fought for it to be true, it had fully turned into obsession.

Gatsby loved Daisy with all of his heart yet it was not the Daisy he met that captured his heart, but the illusion of Daisy. Daisy’s love for Gatsby is by far one of the grandest illusions that is mistaken for reality. For nearly five years, from the day he had left for WW1, Jay had his heart set on marrying Daisy upon his arrival. He returned to the United States, built up his million dollar fortune, and expected that he would be soon be with Daisy forever: “‘It was a strange coincidence,’ I said. ‘But it wasn 't a coincidence at all.’ 'Why not? ' 'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay. ' Then it had not been just the stars to which

With Jay Gatsby, he needed love in order to be happy. He has a slight obsession with Daisy and has a deep desire to be with her. Gatsby goes out of his way to throw big,elaborate parties for Daisy, even though he doesn't like them, hoping Daisy will show up to one of them. Without Daisy, Gatsby feels lost.”And what is more I love Daisy too. Once in awhile I go off on

He is married to Myrtle whom is materialistic and neither acknowledges his effort nor his determination to please others. Instead, Myrtle is unfaithful, attending parties with her lover, Tom and complaining about George, "The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in" (35). Myrtle is unhappy with her marriage and immerses in an affair with a wealthier man. Unlike Gatsby, George is not only unknowing of Myrtles infidelity but also her dissatisfaction with their misfortune. George continues to idealize Myrtle and grows anxious about loosing her. It is not until Chapter Seven when it occurs to George that Myrtle is indeed cheating and he begins to conserve their money in order to evacuate away from Tom. '"What do you want all this money for, all of a sudden?" "I've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go West,"' George tells Tom (). Identical to Gatsby's expectations of Daisy, George believes he can escape with Myrtle to live a better life and he acknowledges Tom as a threat. Tom manages to attract both his wife, Daisy and his mistress, Myrtle's attention. This causes both Gatsby and George to feel inferior and desperate about their own lack of opulence and validity. Finally, it is important to not how similar, yet ironic the death of George and Gatsby

Both Tom and Gatsby’s treatment of Daisy parallels their attitude towards their money. Gatsby worked very hard to gain his fortune from nothing and achieve his goal of being wealthy. This is the same attitude with which he approached winning over Daisy and trying to be with her. Gatsby goes as far as to “[buy his] house so that Daisy was across the bay”(78) and “read a chicago paper for years just on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy’s name.”(79) Gatsby uses Daisy as his impetus to drive his work and success and in turn then devotes all of his earnings to try and win Daisy over. Everything Gatsby does from the moment he meets Daisy to the moment he dies is dedicated to her. This is a reflection of his work ethic which is to constantly strive for what he wishes to achieve which is his idea of the American dream. Gatsby believes he has to fundamentally change himself to be good enough to be worthy of Daisy’s love. Completely opposite, Tom’s attitude towards the love of his life is very similar to his style of success. While he does truly love Daisy, Tom also is involved with Myrtle. Late in the novel during a fight, Tom admits to Daisy that “once in awhile [he goes] off on a spree and [makes] a fool of [himself], but [he] always [comes] back, and in [his] heart [he loves] her all the time”(131). Even though Tom treats Daisy poorly and cheats on her, he expects her to stay true to him.

Daisy Fay, the daughter of wealthy southerners, had very intimate relations with Jay Gatsby, the servant of a rich man but had no money. However, in the end she married Tom Buchanan, a wealthy businessman. For five years she remains fairly content with her marriage. She later regrets her marriage and has an affair with Jay Gatsby. Myrtle Wilson, the wife of an automatic mechanic, George Wilson. Although, she has a steady marriage

In the Buchanan household, which has been relocated several times to escape the bad publicity wrought by affairs, this kind of behavior is to be expected, showing how even the educated upper class is unable to escape the corruption of America, and what it stands for. The general lack of concern for affairs continues when Gatsby believes that he can turn back the clock and rekindle what he and Daisy once had. Gatsby not only hopes that Daisy will wait for him, but expects it, scoffing at Nick’s assertion that things have changed over time, and that Daisy is now married and a with a child and therefore uninterested in him: “Can’t repeat the past?...Why of course you can!” (116). Gatsby believes that Daisy will be willing to give up what she has for him, building his whole life on the assumption that she will be willing to forget all she has for him. This attitude of indifference for marriage is mimicked in the actions of Tom as well as Myrtle Wilson, showing that it may be widely held. Tom takes advantage of Wilson, replying to Nick’s concerns by simply saying that Mr. Wilson “thinks [Myrtle] goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (30). Myrtle’s ability to easily lie to her husband shows that the marital corruption of the upper class is prevalent in the lower classes as well. Fitzgerald uses the diverse characters, from the removed yet decidedly elite character of

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.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby wrote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it mentions several times about how negative this specific character, Tom Buchanan is. Something negative about Tom is that he is abusive. When Myrtle says “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy” Tom becomes irritated and Myrtle becomes obnoxious by saying, “I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy Dai-----” and that is when his fist broke Myrtle nose (Fitzgerald 37). Tom’s violence in the scene with Myrtle was out of hand, when she kept mentioning Daisy’s name repeatedly, he was sick and tired of her so he decides to stop her by punching her in the nose. Tom is also known as arrogant. Tom described Gatsby like he is not worthy of knowing: “‘Who is this Gatsby anyhow?’ demanded Tom suddenly. ‘Some big

Daisy is the most important character in the novel The Great Gatsby.Daisy represents wealth .Her voice is “full of money “.Daisy is a suggested sign of material prosperity .In the book Jay gatsby is in love with Daisy ,he builds a mansion for her ,and views her East Egg home from the points of its green light .Sometimes Gatsby feels like marrying daisy for her wealth.Daisy is so attractive,expressive and haughtiness of the rich .She cries over gatsby shirts in scene that tells that she could have been happy with gatsby and regrets marrying Tom.Daisy is so sophisticated in a moment of ironic.Daisy is ultimately more interested in fulfilling arbitrary expectation of the upper class than romancing .She is chased by gatsby because of his money

Daisy was Gatsby's one and only true love. They were young when they first met each other, their love was a storybook kind of love. The only type of love Gatsby really understood was the kind you put absolutely everything into - because that was the way he approached everything in life. Gatsby formed his life around it, he loved her and loved loving her. Even when he had to leave and found out Daisy had married someone else he continues loving her. His memories of her were still perfect, they were still beautiful, they continued to be his happiness even after she is gone.

While he was gone, Daisy married Tom Buchanan because of his wealth and social status. When Gatsby returned, he found out that Daisy was married to a member of one of the richest families in the city. Gatsby knew that Daisy would not want to give up her wealth for a poor man, and he did not want her to either. He always wanted Daisy to have anything and everything she could ever want, so he attained wealth so she could have those things when they were together again. After becoming New Money, Gatsby would throw parties, that would be categorized as gaudy by Old Money, all in the efforts to get Daisy back. When he finally saw Daisy again, “...he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end… at an inconceivable pitch of intensity” (Fitzgerald 97). He was hoping to get Daisy to love him and be with him again, just like it was before. But Daisy once again chose Tom over him. She couldn’t risk leaving Tom and losing her status for Gatsby because although Gatsby was now wealthy, he was New Money, and they did not hold the same value as Old Money. After the accident with Myrtle, George Wilson killed Gatsby because he wanted vengeance for his wife. But in actuality, Gatsby was taking the fall for the real murderer, who was Daisy. After Myrtle’s death, Daisy left the city with Tom and did not find out Gatsby had been

The relationship with Daisy Buchanan and Tom Buchanan is filled with betrayal and abuse. Tom cheated on Daisy with Myrtle and Daisy cheated on Tom with Gatsby. Tom emotionally and physically abuses Daisy with his control. Tom’s abuse is shown when Daisy says, “You did it, Tom, I know you didn 't mean to, but you did do it.” (Fitzgerald 12) Daisy stays with Tom for security and comfort that Gatsby could not provide. They are so wealthy that they put blame on others and retreat back to their money to keep them safe. This is shown when Tom and Daisy leave without a trace once Gatsby took the blame for killing Myrtle.