Daisy In The Great Gatsby
1. Introduction
America was in a jazz age in 1920s. Its economy developed so fast that most American people had begun to get a sense that “World War I” had brought so many material benefits to them, with unprecedented enthusiasm; they closed doors to purchase wealth and pleasure insanely. They not only think they are placed in one of the most brilliant era in human’s history and mesmerize in it, but also believe that the time will continue endlessly. Social structure and people’s behavior and psychology have changed so profoundly: the middle class expanded rapidly, personal consumption expansion, the changing of people's moral concept. "This is an era that the popularity of puritanism and drinking, is also an era when psychological analysis, jazz music and girls become coquettish frivolous. People’s this kind of concept is the reason why American dream disillusioned. …show more content…
To start with, she thinks Gatsby is wealthy and falls in love with him. But realizing the fact that Gatsby can’t give her a luxurious life, she chooses Tom as her husband without any doubt. However, Gatsby’s appearing with historic fortune and his true love to her seems to make her moved, then she tries to recover the relationship between them. For Daisy, what she really wants is not a romantic lover, but she needs a man who can give her a comfortable life and a respect position.
3.2 Gatsby’s characteristic
The inevitable tragedy of Gatsby lies in that he not only believes in true love but also loves a woman who he believes to be ideal to him but, in fact, too far from his life. Gatsby lives in a deformed society where men like Wilson and Gatsby “are ultimately destroyed, in the wasteland of modern America,” and “it is the flesh-ridden realists like Tom Buchanan who accommodate ― and survive.”
Gatsby’s dream’s disillusion let us see the he inevitability of the disintegration of American dream.
4.
America was in a jazz age in 1920s. Its economy developed so fast that most American people had begun to get a sense that “World War I” had brought so many material benefits to them, with unprecedented enthusiasm; they closed doors to purchase wealth and pleasure insanely. They not only think they are placed in one of the most brilliant era in human’s history and mesmerize in it, but also believe that the time will continue endlessly. Social structure and people’s behavior and psychology have changed so profoundly: the middle class expanded rapidly, personal consumption expansion, the changing of people's moral concept. "This is an era that the popularity of puritanism and drinking, is also an era when psychological analysis, jazz music and girls become coquettish frivolous. People’s this kind of concept is the reason why American dream disillusioned. …show more content…
To start with, she thinks Gatsby is wealthy and falls in love with him. But realizing the fact that Gatsby can’t give her a luxurious life, she chooses Tom as her husband without any doubt. However, Gatsby’s appearing with historic fortune and his true love to her seems to make her moved, then she tries to recover the relationship between them. For Daisy, what she really wants is not a romantic lover, but she needs a man who can give her a comfortable life and a respect position.
3.2 Gatsby’s characteristic
The inevitable tragedy of Gatsby lies in that he not only believes in true love but also loves a woman who he believes to be ideal to him but, in fact, too far from his life. Gatsby lives in a deformed society where men like Wilson and Gatsby “are ultimately destroyed, in the wasteland of modern America,” and “it is the flesh-ridden realists like Tom Buchanan who accommodate ― and survive.”
Gatsby’s dream’s disillusion let us see the he inevitability of the disintegration of American dream.
4.