The Great Gatsby Selfish

He relied on his money to buy him amnesty from what is socially acceptable. Tom’s affair with Myrtle was portrayed as a love affair. He deceived her into believing she was something more than just a mistress. In the novel, Catherine mentions, “...If I was them I’d get a divorce and get married to each other right away” (Fitzgerald 37). This quote shows how Tom has made his relationship with Myrtle seem genuine. However, it is later mentioned that Tom always finds his way back to Daisy. When she was informed of his affair, she felt obligated to her reputation to stay with him even though she was extremely unhappy. This unhappiness led Daisy into Gatsby’s arms. Tom believed it was fair to stay with his wife and mistress, but when he discovered Daisy’s affair he was completely taken aback. In Tom’s mind, Daisy could not have an affair because it was morally unacceptable. He did not care about how he treated his wife, but he would not be mistreated by her. Myrtle believed their affair was one of love and passion. She invested her heart into her relationship with Tom because she loved him. However, their love was not mutual. After Myrtle’s death, Tom saved himself and disguised their affair as one between Gatsby and Myrtle. Tom placed no importance on his relationship with Myrtle unless it benefitted him in some way. Daisy and Myrtle were toys in his own game of

First of all, The Buchanans, are having many problems and are very unsatisfied with their lives. Daisy is not happy with her relationship with Tom. We do not find this out till the end of the book that she is in love with Gatsby. Daisy is also unsatisfied with Tom's actions. He was not at the hospital when her daughter was born , and he continuously leaves her alone to go on with other mistresses. Daisy is so disgusted with him, she finds him revolting after being embarrassed by him everywhere she goes. Tom is also unsatisfied with his relationship, in the book Jordan Baker says “ That’s Tom’s girl on the telephone, ”(Fitzgerald 116). Throughout the book Tom has been cheating on Daisy with mistresses, the main one being Myrtle. The fact that Tom is cheating in the first place shows he is not the happiest with Daisy. Daisy knows on the phone Myrtle is sometimes on the other line, leading her to fall for Gatsby harder. Both Daisy and Tom do not have those true feelings for one another, leading for both to be unhappy and unsatisfied in their own marriage. Being this unhappy, causes for other people to think they had chances with both Tom and Daisy and for those significant others, to be out for mostly Tom but Daisy as well. The amount of anger that comes from how unsatisfied they are leads, to Myrtle and Gatsby both being

Although Daisy Buchanan presents herself as an innocent character, she is actually a materialistic character with corrupted morals. Constantly in the pursuit of wealth and material objects for financial security and social status, Daisy has an emotional breakdown after seeing Gatsby’s luxurious clothing, “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such- such beautiful clothing before”

I think Gatsby is a very great person because of the fact that he did a lot of things for other people, for example he did Nick's grass and decorated his house to make it look nice, even though ultimately it was for him to see Daisy and he wanted it to be nice it was still a nice gesture. No one asked him to throw all those amazing parties and make everyone happy. All though all the things he did were selfish and for his own good he was still a great person.

The Great Gatsby: the story of the obsessive Jay Gatsby, lies, betrayal, and death. Of all the characters in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was by far the greatest and least great characterof them. What limited how deserving he was of the title “great” was that Gatsby lived a life based off of lies and deceit which, arguably, led to his tragic death. Even though Gatsby did some horrible things to get where he was, he did it in order to try to win the heart back of someone special, which helped make the treacherous things he did seem not so bad. All in all, Jay Gatsby was simultaneously unworthy and worthy of the title “great.”

Daisy sees this as does almost the exact same thing, only with Gatsby. By expressing this carelessness for each other, one can only begin to imagine the carelessness they have for other human beings. Tom treats Myrtle even worse than he treats Daisy, but Myrtle doesn’t seem to care, because she is mainly interested in his money. Tom doesn’t seem to worry about anyone but himself. In his own spite he ruins his life, as well as Daisy’s, Gatsby’s, and Myrtle’s. Daisy shows her carelessness during the time where Jordan, Tom, Daisy, Nick and Gatsby go to town. Her and Gatsby act like they are in love and make Tom incredibly jealous even though he is having his own affair. Tom accuses Gatsby of trying to start trouble in the Buchanan house, and they begin to fight. Daisy yells at Tom and tells him that she no longer loves him and is in love with Gatsby. Tom proceeds to tell everyone how Gatsby came across his money, and once Daisy finds out it was by illegal gambling and crime, she seems much less interested in him. Daisy appears to be more interested on what is on the outside of people, rather than the inside.

Daisy has no morality, she id driven by wealth and marries someone for business rather than love. Later when she is reunited with Gatsby, she plays with his affections for her knowing fully well that she would never leave Tom. She was married and had a child which put limitations on the affair she was having with Gatsby. But it wasn’t as far as Tom was with Myrtle. It was all fun and games with Daisy, until Gatsby revealed what they were doing which made her realize she went too far even though she said that she

This is pointed out several time and is shown more heavily than some other traits. Her whole goal was to marry rich and to live luxuriously. She first fell in love with Gatsby, not for his personality, but for the wealthy image he carried with pride. When he marched off to war, he sought comfort in a weeping Daisy, waiting for him to come home. In reality Daisy dumped him like fast food leftovers and focused her affection on Tom, whom she ends up marrying.

Daisy and Tom’s egotistical behaviour caused them to do things that eventually led to the fall of Gatsby. Daisy is a careless person who does not realize that her actions affect people and this is shown when she leads Gatsby on, making him think that she is in love with him and that she will leave her husband, Tom, for him. She is not loyal and she loved two different men

There are many themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby in which many people can relate to today. Fitzgerald demonstrates a lot of themes that have to humanity and its many flaws. One of the major themes in Fitzgerald’s book is the theme of selfishness and its negative effects on the characters and the people around them. According to the Oxford Dictionary, selfishness is “lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure.” In more simple terms, it is when a person puts his or her own needs in before others. There are many characters in this book that depict this characteristic through the story.

In The Great Gatsby, Daisy longs for wealth and social status rather than love. She chooses wealth and status not just once. Daisy was born into a rich family. When she was young, Daisy knew that Gatsby was poor but she still loved him. She promised to wait for him to come back from fighting in Europe. However, she breaks her promise later and marries Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man instead. She wants to continue the upper class lifestyle she is used to. She decides she does not want to marry a poor man like Gatsby.

Although Tom acted as if he truly cared about Myrtle, he really did not. This is displayed when he claims that his wife is a Catholic, and that is why they could not get a divorce. The issue with that, would be that she is not Catholic, Tom was just making up an excuse. This shows that Tom has no real intention of actually being with Myrtle. Instead of being truthful, and telling her that he will never want to marry her, he is dragging her along, and lying to her, making her believe that he cares. By doing this to Myrtle, he is preventing her from actually trying to make something of herself, and further proving that the “upper class” is constantly affecting the lower classes. Gatsby and Daisy would be another perfect example of this idea. “I did love him once, but I loved you too,” Daisy said, proving to Gatsby he was never the only one she wanted. By saying that she loved them both, she is showing that Gatsby was never the only man on her mind. She proved that she did not have the purest intentions of being with him, because she was never fully committed to him. This was also shown when Gatsby was the one to tell Tom she loved him, not Daisy. Finally, upper class people tend to drag lower class people down, by abusing their money, power, and

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

He wanted daisy back so they can live a delightful life together. So when Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom met up Gatsby’s hope was that Daisy and him were going to leaving together as a couple. But when they actually discussed the fact of her leaving him she confessed to Gatsby, “[she] did love tom once--but i loved you too” (Fitzgerald 132). After Tom heard this he knew that Daisy was on his side and not Gatsby’s. Since Gatsby was oblivious to Daisy’s decision, he continued to protect her from any harm that he could prevent. After myrtle's untimely demise, Gatsby decides “ to wait [there] and see if he tries to bother her about that unpleasantness this afternoon” (Fitzgerald 144). Therefore even tho Daisy did not make his dream come true, he still continued to love and care for her. He choose to see the good in Daisy and trusted that she would somehow run away with him and leave

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