Daisy Buchanan

Gatsby’s tragic flaw is believing his ideal life with Daisy can become his real life. Explaining how Gatsby has turned his life around, Nick Gillespie writes “James Gatz, a poor kid from the Midwest, reinvents himself with the help of bootleggers as Jay Gatsby” (1). Gatsby believes he can win Daisy back after being separated for many years. As Gatsby and Daisy meet again and start to spend time together, Gatsby is blinded by how different Daisy acts and how she is now. He is stuck in this idealism that Daisy will leave Tom for him. In chapter 7, Gatsby tells Tom “she only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me.” (Fitzgerald). Gatsby is so unaware of how caught up he is in his dream of Daisy leaving Tom for a life with Gatsby.

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.

In this story, Nick simply seems like a sidekick of Gatsby’s than an actual hero. Helping Gatsby with his problems, Nick appears to be a genuinely sweet person that further advances Gatsby, the hero, to achieve his American Dream: getting Daisy. Even if all the characters in “The Great Gatsby” are deeply flawed, Gatsby is the closest character to being a hero, a tragic hero. Gatsby rise in wealth and extravagant parties were all for Daisy, his dream girl. With every advancement towards his dream, he waits and only worries for Daisy. Yet, it appears every step of the way, Gatsby is further away from Daisy and his American Dream. He knew that Daisy might not love him, but his continued hopefulness and motivation through love was what truly lead to his own self-destruction, his own tragic death. When Gatsby first met Daisy, he understood his vision of Daisy is not similar to the true her, for Daisy became a shallow rich woman who married Mr. Buchanan. Though, Gatsby continuously pretended to love her, for he did not to waste his efforts in loving her. Gatsby incessantly attempted to make his dead dream a reality which is how he followed to his own tragic heroic

He goes out of his way to do many things such as throwing lavish parties every night just for Daisy to notice him. He often seems like a modest man as he never goes out of get her to notice him. He asks Nick for aid in becoming closer to her, which was him using Nick in actuality. Everything that Gatsby had ever done in his life was based upon his pursuit of this dream of his perfect life with her. He moved to New York and bought his mansion because of Daisy. Jordan Baker says, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” He held many expensive parties in the hope that Daisy might show up at one of them. Jordan also said, "I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night, but she never did." His daily life was also controlled by this dream. Gatsby was naive to the fact his money could not buy him what he wanted. Daisy’s values were different from Gatsbys. Gatsby, knowing his past, is a self sufficient, made to be what he is kind of man. Whereas Daisy was given everything and is always bored and moving from one shiny new object to the next. Daisy is childish in this way. When she first goes to Gatsby's house after their meeting set up by Nick, she says "It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before." She is focused on the material, finding another source of entertainment who has substantial wealth. Gatsby is too caught up in having her around to actually notice

Who Jay Gatsby truly loved wasn’t the real Daisy Buchanan but instead the Daisy Fay in the past he imagined of after haven’t seeing her for five years. The exciting re-encounter between Jay and Daisy occurred when Nick Caraway invited Daisy alone to tea, and Gatsby took the two around his mansion. Yet, by the end of the meet, Nick the narrator described that “I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a

As Daisy simply advanced in her life, little did she know that James Gatz would leap into social heights and become Jay Gatsby so soon. James Gatz was a young poor boy, who thought he was never good enough for Daisy. Gatsby has spent the past few years prospering wealth, building a mansion; minutes away from Daisy, just to compensate for what he didn't have before.He devotes his entire life into moulding himself to be the man that Daisy desires and “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before [him].” After becoming the Great Gatsby, he hopes that eventually one day Daisy will find her way back to him. Gatsby’s love for Daisy has grown even fonder and after finally meeting her she doesn't satisfy his standards anymore, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her

In another instance, Nick Carraway relates the obsessive behavior of Jay Gatsby towards Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby has achieved substantial monetary success and prominent social status, but his life, in his eyes, is incomplete. He believes that Daisy is the only person who can bring him total fulfillment. In effect, Gatsby’ s desire for Daisy had become an

     Once he returned from abroad, it did not take long for Gatsby to attempt this. He knew that Daisy was a shallow woman, easily overwhelmed by material items, and thus the best way for him to gain her affection was to flaunt his wealth (which he did by throwing lavish parties). With Nick’s help, Gatsby and Daisy were reunited and Gatsby, given another chance to show off his wealth and win her back. He used this meeting to show Daisy what he had become. She was amazed by the extravagance of his house and when he threw his imported shirts around the room, she began to cry because she realized that she had missed out on much of his life. It was at this moment, when the dream that he had strived for was right in front of him, that he realized that Daisy was not as perfect as he remembered her. This was clearly evident to Nick who thought “there must have been moments […] when Daisy fell short of his dreams – not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything” (101). At this point, it becomes apparent that Gatsby’s dream can no longer be fully achieved; yet it is being achieved because he is finally back with Daisy, even though she is still with Tom.

The theme at the heart of the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald lies in the doomed relationship between the protagonist, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the friend of Gatsby’s whom Gatsby finally confides in at the most tragic moment of his life, the story unfolds against the backdrop of the roaring 20’s.

“In his blue gardens men and women came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (Fitzgerald 39). In his character, his relationships, and his gatherings, Jay Gatsby epitomized the illusion of a perfect romance. When Gatsby and Daisy met in 1917, he was searching for money, but ended up profoundly falling in love with her. “[H]e set out for gold and stumbled upon a dream” (Ornstein 37). Only a few weeks after meeting one another, Gatsby had to leave for war, which led to a separation between the two for nearly five years. As “war-torn lovers” Gatsby and Daisy reach the quintessential ideal of archetypical romance. When Gatsby returned from the war, his goal was to rekindle the relationship he once had with Daisy. In order to do this, he believed he would have to work hard to gain new wealth and a new persona. “Jay Gatsby loses his life even though he makes his millions because they are not the kind of safe, respectable money that echoes in Daisy’s lovely voice” (Ornstein 36). Gatsby then meets Daisy’s cousin, Nick Carraway, who helps to reunite the pair. Finally being brought together after years of separation, Gatsby stops throwing the extravagant parties at his home, and “to preserve [Daisy’s] reputation, [he] empties his mansion of lights and servants” (Ornstein 37). Subsequent to their reconciliation, Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, begins to reveal sordid information about Gatsby’s career which causes Daisy to

Finally, Jay Gatsby’s delusions draws more pity for him. Daisy comes from a rich family and chances of her ending up with Gatsby, a poor soldier, is totally unrealistic. Furthermore Gatsby wants Daisy to “ go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’” (105) but Daisy asserts that “ [she] can’t say [she] never loved Tom…It wouldn’t be true.”(126) Jay cannot grasp the present reality that Daisy could not leave Tom permanently, especially when the fruit of their love is already three years of age.

Gatsby’s real motivation in making himself into a new man was his love for Daisy. His chase after her began soon after the creation of a new persona – James to Jay. Even though he finally has everything anyone could ever want, he was missing the things that mattered most, his past love. Temporary neighbor Nick Carraway, who Gatsby befriends, observes, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps that had gone into loving Daisy” (110). So

Gatsby’s pursuit for his past relationship becomes selfish in his attempt to make Daisy notice him, specifically his wealth. While Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby considering his deprivation of wealth, he remains judgmental when he assumes Daisy “only married [Tom] because [he] was poor and she was tired of waiting for [him]...she never loved any on except [Gatsby]” (130).Quickly, he presumes she solely decided on wealth to marry Tom, a simple alternative. Bringing up the past generates the thought to please himself into believing that Daisy has always

Nick, throughout the novel, both heavily insulted and complimented Gatsby. He was very conflicted about how he truly felt about Gatsby. In the beginning, Nick states, “Only Gatsby [...] who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn” yet goes on to say that Gatsby had “an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any person” (2). A few lines afterwards, Nick writes “Gatsby turned out alright at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby” (2). Gatsby represented the sincerity and faith that Nick valued as well as the lack of responsibility and disillusionment with the rich, whom he grew to dislike. The corruption of money, the way it led people to become selfish and generally obsessed with their own well being, is what preyed on Gatsby. Gatsby tried so hard to create an image that he believed would appeal to his love Daisy and ended up dying as a result. This was the best outcome and the reason why “Gatsby turned out alright at the end”. His death released him from his suffering, after all, he had nothing to live for. The police were after him, his lover abandoned him, and the dream he worked so hard for was crumbling before his eyes. Gatsby slowly came to the realization that money wasn’t the answer to everything. If he couldn’t have Daisy, but also couldn’t get over it, his life would be meaningless. It must have been a humiliating defeat, but one that brought him back to reality. Therefore, Gatsby turned out alright in the end, aware of his shortcomings and the truth of life, but also no longer forced to suffer unrequited love. Furthermore, Gatsby represented two important forces that were missing in most of the characters’ lives: romance and hope. In the end, Gatsby simply chased Daisy because he loved her. Nothing more, nothing

Jay Gatsby was the ultimate embodiment of the failed American Dream. He had money, he had interesting people surrounding him, he was a story of success. Yet, the only thing he hoped for was unobtainable. That little green light across the water gave him hope. For five years he hoped and when he finally got to the point where he could talk to Daisy and be with her, he realized it was simple a green light at the end of a dock and nothing more. Gatsby experienced the harshest of disappointments. On page 101 it said: “He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”. His mind had fantasized over what Daisy was and not who she was. The more he dreamed to reach his goals the harder it was to face the reality. Sure he was wealthy, and quite a suitable match, but he was five years too late.