What Are The Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Daisy's Relationship
1. In my initial reading of The Great Gatsby I thought that Gatsby’s never-dying love of Daisy was sweet, just as how he stayed in love with her all the time they were apart. Yet, in my second reading, I was irritated with it; for all he knew, Daisy could have changed into an entirely separate person. Yet, he projected past-Daisy onto current Daisy, trying to force her to be that person. I felt that his urgency for Daisy to renounce her love for Tom to be extremely vexing because he would not stop trying to change something that already happened, ruining everything that was happing in the present.
2. Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby have similarities that include, their army service and their respective loves. Fitzgerald met his wife Zelda, when …show more content…
Daisy and Jay Gatsby are both complex and intricate characters; however, their love does take on a darker tone. Gatsby, on his part, was in love with the Daisy he knew when he met her, and when he went off to war he continued to build up Daisy in his head, created so magnificent a person she would never be able to live up to the image. Daisy acknowledged this fact but Gatsby could never; he wasn’t even able to acknowledge her daughter because it didn’t fit into the mental fantasy he built up around Daisy. Daisy on her part was in love with Gatsby and did love Tom but she was unable to choose Gatsby because she could never match the other version of herself. Tom and Daisy are very similar, almost cohorts, they knew who they married and while they were not desperately in love, they knew exactly what the other person was offering and that was enough.
11. Life in the 1920s was filled with materialism. Wealth was abundant and those that had it were spending it in extreme excess. Women were taking control of their sexuality and were beginning to gain independence. A frantic energy almost pervaded the city of New York as every citizen was trying to fill some hole that WWI left behind. The generation after the war was called the “Lost Generation” a fitting title because most characters in this novel are unhappy in some way, there is no root cause for it, but it is
2. Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby have similarities that include, their army service and their respective loves. Fitzgerald met his wife Zelda, when …show more content…
Daisy and Jay Gatsby are both complex and intricate characters; however, their love does take on a darker tone. Gatsby, on his part, was in love with the Daisy he knew when he met her, and when he went off to war he continued to build up Daisy in his head, created so magnificent a person she would never be able to live up to the image. Daisy acknowledged this fact but Gatsby could never; he wasn’t even able to acknowledge her daughter because it didn’t fit into the mental fantasy he built up around Daisy. Daisy on her part was in love with Gatsby and did love Tom but she was unable to choose Gatsby because she could never match the other version of herself. Tom and Daisy are very similar, almost cohorts, they knew who they married and while they were not desperately in love, they knew exactly what the other person was offering and that was enough.
11. Life in the 1920s was filled with materialism. Wealth was abundant and those that had it were spending it in extreme excess. Women were taking control of their sexuality and were beginning to gain independence. A frantic energy almost pervaded the city of New York as every citizen was trying to fill some hole that WWI left behind. The generation after the war was called the “Lost Generation” a fitting title because most characters in this novel are unhappy in some way, there is no root cause for it, but it is