...Why do Daisy and Tom stay together? That is one of the biggest questions revolving The Great Gatsby. Although there is many opinion, there is two main perspective: love or wealth. The evidence presented leads to wealth. The reasoning behind Daisy and Tom staying together is their bond of having a child together, sharing a need for the finer things in life, and the standard society placed surrounding marriage. Three years before the beginning of The Great Gatsby Tom and Daisy got married in 1919. They then had a little girl, whose name was never revealed. Their house is located in East Egg, which is known as Old Money. Old money means they inherited their money and didn’t work for it. The two have not been known to stay loyal to each other. In the book, Tom is with Myrtle and Daisy is with Gatsby. Gatsby tries to separate the two because of the love he has for Daisy,...
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...Daisy cheats numerous of times with Gatsby but never fully committed to Gatsby, she always went back home to her husband, which is what she did after the death of Gatsby. Daisy and Tom always had something going on in their relationship , but she always stayed even when Gatsby stepped up and did things Tom never even tried to do. There is something we don’t know about the two, but at the end Nick says that they are crazy and he see why they're together. Throughout Daisy Buchanan’s confusion with Tom and Gatsby shows that you have to know what you want and where to get it to ever get it. Despite Daisy’s love for Gatsby , she still chooses Tom. Throughout The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan actions creates the question , Why won’t Daisy leave Tom...
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...life. Gatsby’s objective is to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan the love he lost years earlier. Gatsby’s mission leads him from poverty to riches, into arms of beloved, and eventually to his death. I believe that Gatsby is most to blame for his own death because of his love for Daisy and getting in between Daisy and Tom's marriage. Gatsby’s love for Daisy eventually led to his demise, because he got in the way of Daisy and Tom’s marriage. In the book, Gatsby made himself believe that Daisy loved him more than she loved Tom “‘I did love him once but I loved you too.’ Gatsby’s eyes opened and closed. ‘You loved me too?’ he repeated” pg (132). In this dialogue, Gatsby is talking with Daisy while Tom, Nick and Jordan are in the room. Nick and Jordan tried to leave but both Gatsby and Tom insisted that they stay with a firm and stern look. Gatsby is trying to win back Daisy saying that she has...
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...foreshadowing to create meaning in his classic work. The word “careless” sums up Nick's friends as I think and also what the author says in the book himself. For example I feel like Gatsby’s whole life trying to contract his money and status so that he could reach a certain position in life. This is what motivated him to move to west egg to be right across the lake from Daisy, making as much money by doing anything possible. I felt in his position Daisy wanted and needed a man that was wealthy so he changed himself to win her back. At a point him and Daisy were perfect for eachother when he was unwealthy, but their affair foreshadowed that it was a doomed relationship showing that she only wanted him for his money now. As we can see now, the relationship was never doomed at the end for Daisy as she runs away, as her secondary lover dies. Another...
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...popular saying in today’s society is “Money can’t buy happiness.” Yes, that statement is extremely true but maybe people should be saying “Money can’t buy love.” In the novel, The Great Gatsby, love is bought in many ways. One clear example is, the relationship between Tom and Daisy. Tom and Daisy’s marriage was organized by Daisy’s parents strictly because Tom had money. “It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.” (6). Of course, Daisy may have felt feelings for Tom at the beginning but it was not pure love and I believe Daisy knew that. Every day Daisy and Tom’s relationship grew worse. Not only did Tom continuously cheat on Daisy but Tom would physically abuse Daisy. Why would Daisy stay with Tom even though he hurts her? Money. Another example of love being bought is between Daisy and Gatsby. When Gatsby and Daisy first dated, Gatsby did not have any money. When Gatsby enlisted in the army, Daisy soon left him for Tom. Daisy left Gatsby for Tom not because she liked him more but because Tom had money. Gatsby realizes this and as soon as he comes back from the war, he is a new person, with money. Gatsby believes he can use his money as a weapon to win back Daisy. Gatsby buys a enormous house right across from Tom’s to...
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...Daisy Bates is remembered as an American Civil Rights Activist, who was not only a role model, but an important figure in the movement. As a young child, Bates suffered, but soon overcame several hardships that later shaped her into an influential African American. Bates’ most known endeavor was working to desegregate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. Daisy Bates and her family faced numerous threats along the way to desegregation. Daisy Bates inspired others as an influential African American through her progress as a Civil Rights activist, the risks and struggles she endured during her work, and her impact on society. Daisy Bates encountered a harsh childhood, that directly shaped her as the American Civil Rights activist she then became. “Daisy Bates” was born Daisy Lee Gatson on November 10, 1914 in Huttig, Arkansas (“Bates, Daisy” 1). Beginning from a rough start, when Bates was a young girl, her mother was raped and murdered by three white men (“The Death” 46). Daisy Bates was then raised by friends of her parents, after her father fled (“Documenting the American” 1). From this incident on, Bates was furious for a majority of her life. Adding to her hatred, Daisy Bates herself attended a segregated public school (“Bates, Daisy” 1). Bates was able to experience the...
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...which in the end won. Gatsby has pushed through obstacles and difficulties in order to become a wealthy person. For the average person that would be the American dream, but for Gatsby it was more than just money, it was love. Gatsby’s American dream was to be with Daisy, in any and all capacities- no matter what, he didn't care what it took, he wanted to be with her. Gatsby loved Daisy and would do anything for her, he fell in love with her 5 years earlier and never seen her again until just recently. All Gatsby wanted to do was be with Daisy he would give up all of his wealth for her, his loved blinded him and this eventually led to his downfall. He does things he normally would not do and if it weren't for Daisy Myrtle would still be alive. I do not think Daisy cares about Gatsby the way he cares for her because she did not attend his funeral and she did not run away with him. Daisy did not know what to say when she first saw him which is a bad sign she did not really show any excitement, this is shown when it says,...
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...cares about his life and his onset of life was negative. He realized how consumed he was with everything that he dedicated his time to. Daisy was the main reason why he did what he did in life. Gatsby moved to West Egg across Daisy's house in East Egg to be near her. He also hosted parties with all kinds of people in hopes of seeing Daisy in one of them some day. On page 161, it says Gatsby "lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream" (Fitzgerald 161). The "warm old world" Gatsby lived in brought happiness to him, it was warm and comforting, not too hot not too cold. However, he longer felt this warmness in the world and he blames this on the fact that he invested much of his...
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...character develops this through his relationship with Daisy, Nick and Tom. Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy is the main reason he creates his superficial identity and the central reason his true self collapses. He creates his superficial identity to achieve his goal of reclaiming the love he and Daisy share. A conversation between Nick and Jordan proves that Gatsby will go to any lengths to get what he desires, which in this case is Daisy: NICK. “It was a strange coincidence.” I said. JORDAN. “But it wasn’t a coincidence at all.” NICK.”Why not?” JORDAN. “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” (78) Gatsby goes out of his way to buy a house near her, proving that he would go to great lengths to get what he desires. To Gatsby Daisy is the final piece to him and is merely a pawn he uses in the steps he is taking to reach this superficial persona of himself. Near the end of the novel, Daisy shatters Gatsby facade when she tells him: ‘’’I can’t help what’s past.’ She began to sob helplessly. ‘I did love him once but I loved you too’ Gatsby’s eyes opened and closed. ‘You loved him too?’ he repeated.” (132) This moment shows that Gatsby would much rather stay in a ‘fool’s paradise’ and stay oblivious to the concept of reality, but when he is forced to face the truth, he loses the one he loves and a part of his true self collapses. This shows the turning point within Gatsby, when he realizes that Daisy loves someone else, his idea of their life together...
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...the women he loved left him for someone with much more money that he had when he was in the war and Tom knows that Daisy would never leave him for some other man. In the musical Chicago Amos feels the need to do anything to make Roxie happy so she can love him and not ignore him and furthermore in the musical Billy know that he can control the women that he fights for because that's why he wins all his cases. “ There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice” (Fitzgerald). In both The Great Gatsby and...
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...characters such as Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom primarily. Jay Gatsby wants the perfect American dream. He has worked most of his life to get the fame and wealth that will impress Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is his love. In Gatsby’s mind, she is the only girl for him. He is so in love with everything about her. Daisy, however, refuses to accept her love for Gatsby and ultimately chooses Tom in the end. Tom Buchanan is an arrogant jerk who cannot seem to relive his glory days as an elite football player. He tries to feel this void with mistresses, one being Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle wants the life that Daisy...
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...Many characters only care about money throughout the book, Daisy is one of them. She thought that lots of money would make her happy but in reality, it was really Gatsby that made her happy. Daisy loved Gatsby so much but he never had enough money, so once he left for the war she looked for someone who had money. She found Tom, and even though she never really loved Tom she still decided to marry him. Daisy wanted a good, expensive life, someone who could provide for her and give her all she needs and wants, Tom was the person who could do that. "Daisy marries and stays with Tom because of the...
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...After daisy and Gatsby meet she fell in love with him again but after he dies ”Nick tries to hold a large funeral for him, but all of Gatsby’s former friends and acquaintances have either disappeared—Tom and Daisy, for instance, move away with no forwarding address “this show how women go with whoever is beneficial for them. Gatsby plan was to live with daisy in his house but after daisy is too scared and lie to tom and there love. So after daisy leaves with tom because she is dependent and all along she want to live with him because she did love him and her daughter...
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...Alexis Marques PSC 168 Extra Credit In Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, the book starts out in the year of 1967 and introduces an eighteen year old Susanna Kaysen who is in session with a doctor she never seen before; who tells her she has a “pimple and that she has been picking at it.” (pg 7) He then asked her if she has been picking at herself in general and Susanna nods (she agrees to anything that the doctor asks her). The doctor repeats that she has been picking herself and then says “you need a rest.” (pg 7) Before Susanna knows it the doctor makes a call, a taxi comes and he tells the driver to take her to McLean Hospital. Once at McLean, Susanna introduces a girl name Polly who had set herself on fire at one point, and that she was never unhappy, she was kind and comforting and never complained. Susanna describes Polly’s suicide attempt as one having courage and being dangerous at the same time. She compares danger and defeat to when one puts a gun in their mouth and is not able to pull the trigger, which is expressed in this quote: “But you put it there, you taste it, it’s cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you’ve been planning, when you’ll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You’ll have to find another way.”(pg 17) Susanna then reavles her suicide attempt, which she swallowed fifty aspirins and then went outside and fainted , while...
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...alcohol it made people desire it more. Going to imply that the same goes for Gatsby having the desire to have more money to get Daisy's attention towards him to make him notice and more appealing when his achievements. But it backfires on him and Daisy stays with Tom and doesn’t care a damn. I know you didn’t mean to, but you did do it. “That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big hulking physical specimen of a-”- Daisy. The center of the book is Jay Gatsby coming from a dirt poor family, being a big dreamer, and also a big risk taker. Like for example doing anything to win Daisy back for himself. Keeping his past behind him and others that he meets along the way. Deceiving...
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