Gatsby Loves Daisy
Jay Gatsby. The mysterious man of West Egg. "I heard he killed a man." "He once told me he was an Oxford man." Are all of these rumors true? James Gatz fled from his North Dakota home in poverty and met Dan Cody off the coast of Lake Superior. For five years, Cody had taught Gatz proper language, right morals, and gave him fashion updates. After he died, Gatz found the perfect time to change his name to erase his past and eventually replace it with his shining future. He was now Jay Gatsby, and had fallen in love with a lady ten years younger than himself. She was Daisy. They had met when Jay was a young military officer and he was about to flee to fight in World War I. He fell in love with her gentleness, luxury, charm, but lied about his background to make herself interested into him.
It's the first time that Gatsby and Daisy see each other in five years. Tension is built up in between awkwardness and happiness. There has always been a clash between West Egg and East Egg. West Egg was the "new money" and East Egg consisted of the "inherited and old money". Between these two forces are where Jay starts his rumors, his own heresy, but mostly expressing his ideals. Gatsby will always be the outsider, trying to fake his way in to the "secret society" among the East Eggers. At one time, Tom and his friends leave Gatsby at his house alone, even when telling him that they should go out for an afternoon. This shows the shallowness of the "secret society", but also shows what money can do to one person. Compared to Walter Lee, the money makes him blind and somewhat cruel, and in this case, the money shows how people like Tom show their shallowness, their cockiness, and their cruel heart. They know what Gatsby is made of.
As Gatsby tells his background to his trustworthy friend Nick, narrator of The Great Gatsby, the rumors and heresy had dissolved into millions of pieces. He develops a less boring life, so maybe Gatsby does like the rumors that display him. Anyway, what makes him idealistic is his view for Daisy. He had waited all of these years waiting for her and now's the perfect chance to win her back. He has his own idealistic Daisy Buchanan: never loving Tom and always have loved Gatsby. Even though Gatsby may be in love with Daisy, he's in love with ideas of her, too. He had believed in the green light at the end of Daisy and Tom's dock, where he could see it from his West Egg Lawn. The green light had represented his hopes and dreams for Gatsby's future, but what Gatsby doesn't realize is that his overconfidence blinds him from the real world. His over confidence is what makes him flawed. But even more so what's wrong with Daisy is that she may not be in love with Gatsby himself, but rather what he owns, his materials. She is as materialistic as Willy Loman is. Even Gatsby is materialistic himself because he tries to please all of Daisy's heart with his belongings, his wealth, and his home.
When they are seen together dancing, Nick describes Daisy as falling short of Gatsby's illusions, "not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time." Nick even knows that the the ideals for Daisy are impossible, but he knows the due to Gatsby's loyal and warm heart, he'll do anything to make her fall in love with him again, which makes him flawed. He comes far too ambitious when Daisy says, "You want too much. I love you now, isn't that enough. I can't help what's past."
It's the first time that Gatsby and Daisy see each other in five years. Tension is built up in between awkwardness and happiness. There has always been a clash between West Egg and East Egg. West Egg was the "new money" and East Egg consisted of the "inherited and old money". Between these two forces are where Jay starts his rumors, his own heresy, but mostly expressing his ideals. Gatsby will always be the outsider, trying to fake his way in to the "secret society" among the East Eggers. At one time, Tom and his friends leave Gatsby at his house alone, even when telling him that they should go out for an afternoon. This shows the shallowness of the "secret society", but also shows what money can do to one person. Compared to Walter Lee, the money makes him blind and somewhat cruel, and in this case, the money shows how people like Tom show their shallowness, their cockiness, and their cruel heart. They know what Gatsby is made of.
As Gatsby tells his background to his trustworthy friend Nick, narrator of The Great Gatsby, the rumors and heresy had dissolved into millions of pieces. He develops a less boring life, so maybe Gatsby does like the rumors that display him. Anyway, what makes him idealistic is his view for Daisy. He had waited all of these years waiting for her and now's the perfect chance to win her back. He has his own idealistic Daisy Buchanan: never loving Tom and always have loved Gatsby. Even though Gatsby may be in love with Daisy, he's in love with ideas of her, too. He had believed in the green light at the end of Daisy and Tom's dock, where he could see it from his West Egg Lawn. The green light had represented his hopes and dreams for Gatsby's future, but what Gatsby doesn't realize is that his overconfidence blinds him from the real world. His over confidence is what makes him flawed. But even more so what's wrong with Daisy is that she may not be in love with Gatsby himself, but rather what he owns, his materials. She is as materialistic as Willy Loman is. Even Gatsby is materialistic himself because he tries to please all of Daisy's heart with his belongings, his wealth, and his home.
When they are seen together dancing, Nick describes Daisy as falling short of Gatsby's illusions, "not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time." Nick even knows that the the ideals for Daisy are impossible, but he knows the due to Gatsby's loyal and warm heart, he'll do anything to make her fall in love with him again, which makes him flawed. He comes far too ambitious when Daisy says, "You want too much. I love you now, isn't that enough. I can't help what's past."