This is made clear by the fact that Tom is having an affair and Daisy barely pays any mind to her daughter. Daisy and Tom’s family life shows how the American Dream has changed from people striving for a good family life to just having a family for image. Gatsby shows how the American Dream has changed from wanting to live comfortably to having the best or better things than others around him. Because of the industrial boom, there were new inventions being made and it persuaded people to compete for being the best. This boom allowed Gatsby to be better than people.
Why did Henry VIII Break from Rome? King Henry VIII broke away from Rome for a number of reasons, including the succession, power, money, Henry’s desire for a son and the state of the Church. I believe the most important reason is Henry’s desire for a son. He wanted to annul Catherine of Aragon since the chances of her giving Henry a son where very small and Henry also had doubts that their marriage was unlawful in the eyes of God. However, Catherine loved Henry and was loyal to their marriage, so she didn’t want the annulment to happen.
Tom likes Daisy not for true love but because she’s makes a good trophy wife. Tom cheats on daisy with Myrtle and he doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings, he doesn’t strive for daisy’s love as he knows that his wealth will keep her. Tom’s money and the lifestyle it offers are what attracts daisy and she is nothing but an object to Tom. Whereas Gatsby longs for Daisy’s love and will do anything to achieve it, this is proved when Daisy kills Myrtle with his car Gatsby loves her so much that he takes the blame for her. Gatsby is a nostalgic person as he says to daisy ‘can’t repeat the past?'...
Gatsby throwing his “shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel” is him trying to show Daisy how wealthy he is enough to afford such beautiful shirts. This shows Gatsby chasing the illusion of the American Dream because he is trying to dress the part of a living a wealthy lifestyle. Another example through imagery is when Nick first attends one of Gatsby’s large, extravagant parties and sees “the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors” (40). People attend Gatsby’s flashy parties to enjoy the glamour and wealth of the mansion, which they believe to be the American Dream. Hundreds of people fill up Gatsby’s “halls and
In other words, she takes it for granted. She marries a very rich man and automatically all Tom’s wealthy also become Daisy’s wealth. She makes a
Gatsby’s dream is to be with Daisy, he uses his wealth, the wealth that he never has when he first met Daisy. Gatsby throws crazy, lavish parties on the weekends that most wealthy people in the area attend, and buys his mansion that comes with an amazing view of the bay and East side; all this was done for Daisy. Gatsby uses his wealth as a reason of why Daisy should leave Tom, by doing so he is showing he has a better materialistic life, instead of showing that he has a better personality and character. If Gatsby showed that he matured and developed as a person, she would probably leave Tom because he can’t replicate Gatsby’s personality. Everything Gatsby does is for Daisy, and in the end it all goes to waste.
Gatsby wanted this life since he was a kid. He also wants the girl of his dreams, Daisy, in his life, only he can’t have her because she is in love with Tom. Gatsby makes Daisy a symbol of everything he wants because of her beauty, wealth, and worry-less attitude. There are also small symbols and themes in the story as well. The color of daisy’s white dress, for example, sets the mood for the scene.
Why so? Well, one of the most evidence tells that, every week, he always throws lavish parties that well prepared with foods, liquors, services and entertainment. In every party that he has, there will be “at least once a fortnight a corps caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of his enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening horsd’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors...The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher,…” (44).
As the novel proceeds, it is quickly revealed that the reality they live differs from their appearance to their fellow high society members. Firstly, Gatsby’s wealth is not genuine because he does illegal activities to distinguish himself from the poor. Secondly, Daisy is not an ideal wealthy housewife because she is deceiving and unfaithful. Lastly, Tom wants to have the perfect image of a happy family but his lust prevents him from actually having one. Humankind want to be something they are not so which causes reality to be an
Mr. Gatsby lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every weekend. Nick is unlike the others in Wrest Egg; he was educated at Yale and has connections in East Egg. East Egg in populated by inhabitants with not only wealth, but style too. One night Nick drives out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom and Nick’s old class mate from Yale. Nick is introduced to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom