Preview

The Great Gatsby Daisy Analysis

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
268 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
The Great Gatsby Daisy Analysis
In F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby "Does it sink like rotten meat or crust a sugar over like syrup sweet?" jay gatsby he want to be with daisy but he just dont realize that his dream was not complete and tom and daisy they was careless people they aint care about nobody else. Jay gatsby suffered "repetition compulsion" he wanted to repeat certain actions in particular the best one's of his life with daisy. "Cant repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. Why of course you can" jay gatsby talked alot about the past jay gatsby gathered that he wanted to recover something some idea of himself perhaps that have gone into loving daisy. Jay gatsby want daisy to go up to tom and say i never loved you even after daisy shared three obiterate years

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    This demonstrates that even Gatsby’s mansion represents his internal emptiness because of Daisy. Even though he has achieved his goals, his longing dream has been just a lost hope in his empty heart. Similarly, to Tom he has wealth, power, and his wife’s love; however, he has a mistress thinking that would be sufficient to cover his emptiness.…

    • 58 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The character Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald’s iconic novel, The Great Gatsby, embodies the desire to, “beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past,” (189). Regarding his relationship with Daisy, Gatsby tries so desperately to override this inability to repeat the past. Gatsby, “wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken,” (116). What he did not realize is that even if Daisy had returned to her relationship with Gatsby after the five years they were separated, it would not be the same as it was. Though the action of the relationship would be repeated, the emotions and intent behind the actions would have been altered, mostly due to the factors of time, environment, and the changes in both Gatsby and Daisy since their relationship during wartime. When Gatsby made the statement, “’Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!’”(117), he did not take into consideration that Daisy is not in the same emotional state as she was five years ago, and neither is he.…

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby establishes characterization through an intimate relationship between Daisy and Gatsby without ever explicitly discussing about it. When the two became lovers, Gatsby was surprised to discover that "it didn't turn out as he had imagined.” However, he did feel as though they were married after this encounter. This conveys an aspect of how Gatsby fell in love with Daisy’s allure rather than her personality and was blindly obsessed with being with her. Shortly later, the two are split apart for a length of time and end up reuniting after five years. It is suggested that they resume their sexual relationship and their affair is purely physical with no substance behind it. Once again, Gatsby fails to…

    • 184 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby’s interactions with other characters illustrates his awkwardness. During the novel, Gatsby is the main character and has an obsessive love for Daisy Buchanan and it ends up costing him later. Gatsby had finally seen Daisy ever since he left five years ago and he says “We’ve met before,” [...].His eyes glanced momentarily at me and his lips parted with an abortive attempt at a laugh” (Fitzgerald 86). During the whole meeting with Daisy, Gatsby seems lost for words and extremely nervous. When he randomly states an obvious fact that he and Daisy had met before, he makes the whole room feel weird. Daisy mentions that her and Gatsby have not seen each other in a long time and Gatsby retorts…

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The year 1925 was filled with entertainment, opulence, and change. In America, a pound of bread could be bought for nine cents, and riches were amassed by selling liquor illegally. Prohibition, the ban on the production and distribution of alcohol, was passed as part of the temperance movement in 1919. This made way for illegal sale of alcohol and speakeasies. People became increasingly more rebellious and were just looking for a good time. However, Germany was still reeling from the loss of WWI. This allowed many to attempt to gain support and rise to power. During 1925, two very different books were published. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald described the careless of Americans in the 1920s. While they had been concerned with enjoying themselves, Hitler spent time in jail writing his autobiography, Mein Kampf. Although Hitler's book…

    • 817 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In “The Great Gatsby”, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, raised by her rich family. To this extent, Daisy seems to represent the paragon of perfection but actually, she is totally a realistic woman. So, the readers have love-hate feelings for her.…

    • 524 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Daisy symbolizes Gatsby’s ideals, while the “green light” represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams. Also Gatsby is in love with Daisy, and all he wants is Daisy to be with him so he can be happy. This novel also includes the American Dream. FItzgerald used a lot of symbolism, to represent the characters.…

    • 400 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, emphasizes the ideas of purity throughout the novel. From realizing the actions of Daisy, the readers notice how she is portrayed as pure, but truly is not. On the surface, she maintains this illusion of innocence, however her actions are corrupt. She believes that money, power, reputation, and her position in society are more important than everything else; which also displays acts of selfishness. Daisy is often wearing white, the symbol of innocence. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the color white to ironically represent purity in order to illustrate one of the main character's true personality.…

    • 869 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Everyone has dreams, some are big and some are small but everyone has one. For Jay Gatsby; dreams can seem close but impossible to obtain. Jay Gatsby is a confusing man to understand, but his dream is very clear to everyone; he wants Daisy’s love to be his for keeping. Although there are many obstacles that stand in between him and his dream; he has an ambition to succeed where the odds are against him and Jay believes that it’s possible. After all Jay Gatsby states “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”…

    • 1016 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Jay Gatsby wanted to repeat his past so that he could restructure his life until it was perfect rather than…

    • 901 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Fitzgerald portrays through Jay Gatsby’s illusion that building a life on a fantasy will only lead to an utter disappointment. Gatsby’s blind faith in his ability to “repeat the past” that he’s been dwelling on for “five years” that tribute to his romantic and idealistic nature and a clear indication that he just might be a completely delusional fantasist. So far in his life, everything that he's fantasizing about when he first imagining himself as Jay Gatsby has come true. But in that transformation, Gatsby now feels like he has lost a fundamental piece of himself, and “wanted to recover” from the past. Gatsby is telling Nick about his love for Daisy and how it all begins. For some time Gatsby has been in love with Daisy, and when this moment…

    • 275 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Often in works of literature a character will do almost anything to achieve his ultimate goal or dream. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the main characters, Gatsby will fail at achieving his dream. For Gatsby his ultimate dream is to get back together with his long lost girlfriend Daisy who he is sickly in love with. You might think that this could be an easy task for a man like Gatsby who is extremely wealthy and likable but what you don't know is that Daisy is happily married to a man named Tom Buchanan who plays the role as the bad guy, he is a Yale graduate and comes from a very wealthy family. Daisy and Gatsby are in love with each other and also have an affair, but they can never be together. Throughout the story he will…

    • 768 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    With the moonlight beating down on Gatsby with an almost sad, dim glow, Gatsby’s heart slowly breaks watching Daisy and Tom share a meal, talking, neither of them unhappy, just peaceful. Gatsby knows he has lost, but he is unable to let go of Daisy, and thus, he waits outside of her and Tom’s apartment until the early hours of the next morning just holding on to the smallest bit of hope that he has left. At this point, Gatsby is pathetically waiting for what he had been hoping for throughout the whole novel, something he knows he cannot have. Perpetually stuck in his past and obsessed with his love for Daisy, Gatsby is unable live a day of his current life without striving to make the past become reality.…

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    He is stuck relieving how he wished his life had unfolded. Nick tells Gatsby that the past cannot be repeated, but Gatsby responds with “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can (Fitzgerald 116). A plan has been created in his mind that Daisy and him can back track five years and be the same exact people they were. Everything Gatsby has done in the last five years has been to get Daisy back in his arms. Gatsby also wants Daisy to admit that she has never loved Tom, but Daisy cannot bring herself to do that: “Oh you want too much! I love you now-isn’t that enough?” (Fitzgerald 139-140). In Gatsby’s ideal world, the last five years would be erased, and they would get married as if nothing changed between the, over the last few years. The image of Daisy in Jay Gatsby’s head is unattainable for her to live up to. He has placed her on a pedestal, and it is impossible for her to live up to his vision. Jay Gatsby expects too much from Daisy, and a great man does not set unrealistic expectations of…

    • 676 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Mark Twain once said “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” This quote means that people can never exactly recreate something and feel the way they did before but they can always achieve something similar.In the novel the Great Gatsby we come across this same idea of people trying to repeat the past but only get as close to rhyme of the past. In the novel we see Gatsby who is blinded by the past and was unable to live in the present.Gatsby was so focused on recreating his past with Daisy and reliving the "golden days". Gatsby pursed visions of his future that were determined by his past. He lived with…

    • 766 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays