The Great Gatsby And Daisy's Relationship

The Great Gatsby is told by Nick Carraway, who was Jay Gatsby’s neighbor in West Egg. Across in East Egg were Tom and Daisy Buchanan who had one daughter and lived in a nice home, which looks like what the “American Dream” is like but it’s really not. Gatsby had enormous parties at his house every weekend. The parties were to get Daisy’s attention but no one knew that. Gatsby and Daisy loved each other but Gatsby had to leave her to go to war, years past by and eventually Daisy met Tom and got married. They have an unhappy relationship because Tom is cheating on Daisy and Daisy still loves and thinks about Gatsby. This all ties in with Scott Fitzgerald’s life who is the author of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald and Gatsby had a lot of in common they dreamed of success. The other similarity is their love lives. Gatsby and Fitzgerald had to spend much time to try to try to impress the ones they love but unlike Gatsby, Fitzgerald succeeded in earning Zelda’s heart and marrying her. Because of the similarities of Fitzgerald and Gatsby’s lives it’s obvious that Fitzgerald tied in his life with Gatsby’s. The theme in The Great Gatsby is the “American Dream is elusive.” There are a lot of important literary devices that Fitzgerald uses in The Great Gatsby. To develop the theme one of literary device is characterization, the main characters are Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Tom and Daisy Buchanan. The main settings in the novel are East Egg, West Egg and the Valley of Ashes. West Egg is where Gatsby lived across from him lived Daisy who is Gatsby’s motivation, that’s why he is rich so he can impress Daisy. The green light on Daisy’s dock represents Gatsby’s hope to reunite with Daisy, it also represents foreshadowing. He also uses irony Tom and Daisy’s relationship is an example of irony because their relationship looks like the “American Dream” but in reality its not. Characterization is very important in the novel. Jay Gatsby is the main character in the book, he is a rich man living in West Egg. He’s originally from North Dakota. Before he was rich Gatsby met and fell in love with Daisy. Gatsby had to leave Daisy to go to war, after the war Gatsby knew that Daisy wouldn’t want him poor. So Gatsby became a bootlegger during prohibition. With the money he had he bought an enormous house in West Egg across from Daisy in East Egg. Gatsby’s neighbor is Nick Carraway who is the narrator of the novel. Nick is from Minnesota, after attending Yale with Tom Buchanan and fighting in World War I, he moved to New York City. Nick is Daisy Buchanan’s cousin. Daisy is a young beautiful woman, …show more content…
He worked as a bootlegger for many years just to impress Daisy. He went from being one of the poorest men to one of the richest men. All he wanted was to be with Daisy and he did almost anything that he could just to impress her. On the other hand, Daisy’s motivation was money, she married Tom for his money, not to say that she didn’t love Gatsby but she might have loved money even more. Even though she knows that Tom is cheating on her or have an idea that he’s cheating on her she still stays with him for his money. Tom may even know that Daisy loves him for his money that’s why he is cheating on her. “They 're such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I 've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.” (Fitzgerald 92). These quotes don’t only show that Gatsby is showing how rich he is but it also shows that Daisy is a gold digger. Its not very clear why Daisy starts sobbing but she realizes that Gatsby is showing her his shirts to impress her and that makes her want him even more. The thing to realize is that women in the 20s liked men for their money, not all women but most of them because they wanted to live the “dream”. Like Myrtle she was cheating on her husband with Tom because her motivation was money