An example of this is how Tom doesn’t even really like Myrtle, but he still cheats on Daisy with her. In this example, Tom is only using Myrtle as an escape from his life with Daisy, which isn’t as perfect as he wanted it to be. Therefore, he feels the need to cheat on Daisy, simply because he can get away with it. Another example of how the rich use the less rich, is when Gatsby uses Nick to get to Daisy. Gatsby wouldn’t have showed so much interest in Nick if he hadn’t known that Daisy was Nick’s cousin.
That means Gatsby’s origin of his money is mysterious. But Tom’s money definitely comes from his family. Daisy chooses Tom event if she is in love with Gatsby, because Tom is more socially desired, Gatsby doesn’t have the social status that Daisy wants. Gatsby uses his money to get everything that his thinks Daisy has always wanted in hope to get her back. Gatsby needs to lie to Daisy about his past to convince her that he is worthy for her.
While M. Lantins wife's has a different type of addiction an addiction that seems very strange to M.Lantin, her addiction to imitation jewelery. Even though M. Lantin with his salary could not buy real jewelery he was very critical about what was thought to be his his wife's fake jewelery collection “ you have the tastes of a gypsy” and often calling her collection “ Junk” ( Maupassant, 8). only to discover after his wife's death that the jewelery he mocked was worth a fortune and that she got those jewels from a third person. Both Hester and M. Lantin demonstrate how self absorbed in their own lives they did not realize what was happening to there loved
He is so obsessed hat he is willing to break up a family just to have his love. In Gatsby’s mind, he might believe that he is truly in love. However, in reality, its not love but is his obsession. He gathered all his wealth, power, and possessions just to impress Daisy. He intentionally bought a house in West Egg just so he can be close to Daisy and watch her every night.
Gatsby said, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me,” (130). In 1917 it would have been true that once was rich Daisy would have married him, but when Tom bring to the surface the illegal measures Gatsby went to earned his money, Daisy finds him less attractive, because his income could be lost very quickly or
Daisy, on East Egg does not desire money and has social standing. Gatsby only desires money in order to win Daisy but lacks social standing. While he lives on West Egg, he does so only in order to view his dream, Daisy, on East Egg. In fact, Gatsby’s father tells Nick that “Jimmy always liked it better down East” (9:176). Daisy, while she may love Gatsby, loves social standing more and so she remains on East Egg in a loveless relationship.
She says because I was on’y fifteen. But the guy says I coulda. If I’d went, I wouldn’t be livin like Hurley 2 this, you bet.” (Steinbeck 88) Daisy from the Great Gatsby dream was to be married to her husband because she lost the chance of becoming famous. Daisy was only married to her husband, because he was rich and he could provide for her. Both Daisy and Curley’s wife didn’t really truly love their husbands.
She suspects she should have married Edgar Adkins Teagarden because he was a wealthy gentleman, and therefore a “good man.” Supposedly people could be trusted in the past according to the grandmother and Red Sammy. Red Sammy states, “a good man is hard to find,” considering himself, known to be clumsy, to be one of a dying breed. Even the Misfit remembers things his father said and did as well as the unfairness of his punishment for crimes that he can’t remember committing. According to these characters, the present is filled with pain and unhappiness, and things were different long ago. In a way, this belief allows them to stop short of deeply exploring their own potential for greatness because they’ve allotted themselves that the world is not associated with it.
The Great Gatsby: Final Essay Assignment In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it gives an outsiders view point of how upper class society acts. The main character of the book, a young adult named Nick, is not used to the upper class way of living. Through his eyes you get a view point of high society’s financial, social, and even love life. Gatsby believes he is in love with Daisy and has been for many years, but when Gatsby explains to Nick all the reasons he is in love with her they don’t seem to be so true at heart. Gatsby is more in love with the thought of being with Daisy, than he is actually in love with her.
However the reality that daisy has loved more than just Gatsby crushed him since he had the illusion that she only ever loved him. It is clear that even if she loves Gatsby due to Tom’s social statues and old money daisy will not be leaving him. Although Gatsby considers daisy to be the most perfect women he has ever met, it becomes clear toward the end of the novel that daisy is a selfish woman who only cares about herself. This is shown in chapter seven when daisy hits myrtle with Gatsby’s car and does not stop or slow down the car. That night Gatsby, still in love with daisy, waits for her “all night if necessary” (Fitzgerald, pg.