Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man, Jay Gatsby, loves Daisy and dreams of her loving him back. Though Gatsby does not have much justification for believing Daisy will leave her husband, Tom, to be with him, he continues to hold onto his dream. The biggest blow to his dream occurs during Gatsby's confrontation with Tom when Daisy tells Gatsby that she actually loves Tom and does not want to leave him. Although Daisy is in love with Gatsby and has an affair with him, she chooses to stay with Tom because he is wealthy and the relationship is convenient for her. The reason Daisy chooses not to leave Tom for Gatsby is because Tom reveals Gatsby is involved in the illegal business of bootlegging. When Daisy hears this, Daisy feels insecure about staying with Gatsby and goes back to Tom. Gatsby involves himself in illegal business to attain Daisy as his lover, but she betrays him; therefore, the theme of the …show more content…
Gatsby admits “with surprising consciousness, [...] that Daisy’s charm is allied to the attraction of wealth” (Lewis 50). Daisy wants to be with whoever has more money, and Tom had more wealth and authority so Daisy left Gatsby for Tom—she is a gold digger. When Gatsby first met Daisy, “he was too poor for her tastes, and when he was an officer overseas, she married Tom Buchanan, a wealthy but careless man” (Bloom 137). Gatsby is too poor for Daisy’s taste, so she marries Tom for his wealth. When Daisy and Gatsby first met, Daisy was a beautiful rich girl and Gatsby was just an officer who was waiting his time to serve in the war. Gatsby’s main goals in life are money, luxury, and social status, and as he fell more in love with Daisy and got to know her, he understood that those three things are a necessity for him to get Daisy by his side. However, no matter how much Gatsby loved Daisy, she never belonged to him because he was too