What Is Daisy's Love In The Great Gatsby

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Tom’s and Daisy’s is on an unstable foundation. Tom’s and Daisy’s love is support off Tom’s money. While on the other side, Daisy’s love is for Gatsby. In F. Scotts Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the characters of Tom and Daisy Buchanan convey the theme that when the foundation for a relationship is all about money, their marriage outcome is going to be hollow.
Daisy’s relationship with Gatsby was blissful. Daisy began to develop feelings for Gatsby again after their lips touched she “blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete” (Fitzgerald 111). When Daisy kisses Gatsby they fell in love again. The blossomed flower represented them because a flower dies then grows back later on like their love for each other but Gatsby
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Tom goes around to be with other girls rather than being with his wife, Daisy. After the honey moon, Tom went back to Chicago and “The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken — she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.” (Fitzgerald 77). Tom was probably out doing something with the chambermaid while Daisy was in the hotel. Girls who go with Tom seem to get in trouble, whether it's Daisy's bruised fingers, this girl's broken arm, or Myrtle's mutilated chest. Daisy is tired of doing rich people stuff and all she wants is love. While Tom was gone her daughter “was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where…You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow, I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” (Fitzgerald 17). Daisy's said that she is glad that she had a girl and how she hoped her daughter would be a beautiful little fool tells us that Daisy realizes that her life is shallow and she feels it has no meaning. It also reviled that Tom was cheating on Daisy because he was “God knows were.” When Daisy had her baby. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle. When Gatsby was heading to Myrtle’s party “She smiled slowly and, walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.” (Fitzgerald 25). Tom is probably tired of Daisy so he goes around having fun and it turns out that he has an affair with Myrtle which she also has a husband. Obviously Myrtle wants to get with Tom because he has money. Also Myrtle uses Tom to try to fit in with the old money upper class. Tom’s and Daisy’s marriage causes problems and unhappiness because Tom is cheating on Daisy and Daisy really doesn’t love Tom. She only married him for his money.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the characters of Tom and Daisy Buchanan convey the theme that when the foundation for a relationship is money in place of love the outcome