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How Is Daisy Portrayed In The Great Gatsby

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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. Fitzgerald reflected in the character Gatsby was hopelessly in love with Daisy and blind to anything else. Nick set the affair of Daisy and …show more content…

At tea Gatsby, Daisy and Nick were all very much on edge, hanging on the awkward tension in the room. Daisy was described as “sitting, frightened but graceful, at the end of a stiff chair.” Gatsby on the other hand was rendered as “reclining against the mantel piece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom.” Daisy’s representation in this affair symbolizes the truth of their relationship at this point and where Gatsby composes his hope of their relationship from, while Gatsby symbolizes his own ignorance to the situation. In the quotation it presents Daisy as being on the edge of her chair, stiff and uncomfortable while still trying to put on a good face. This reveals how Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship is stiff and slowly slipping away as symbolized as Daisy’s sitting on the end of her chair. Her good face brings upon the phenomenon of hope and Gatsby’s hope in her; he finds hope from the fake persona put on by Daisy, he is simply building this faith in her that ceases to exist. However Gatsby is portrayed as practically bored exposing his unawareness of the situation and his denial to the truth of their

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