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Why did Daisy marry Tom? Why does Gatsby arrange for Nick to have lunch with Jordan Baker? How does Tom find out about the affair between Gatsby and Daisy? How does Gatsby make his money? Next, consider Daisy's response to Gatsby's wealth, especially the shirts — does someone in love break into tears upon being shown an assortment of shirts? For Daisy and Gatsby too, for that matter the shirts represent wealth and means. When Daisy bows her head and sobs into the shirts, she is displaying her interest in materialism.
She doesn't cry because she has been reunited with Gatsby, she cries because of the pure satisfaction all his material wealth brings her. He has become a fitting way in which to get back at Tom. When Tom and Gatsby have their altercation at the hotel in Chapter 7, Daisy's motivations are called into question: Her inability to deny having loved Tom speaks well for her, but at the same time, it suggests that her attachment to Gatsby has been purely business.
Tom also knows that after Daisy realizes Gatsby is not of their same social circles, she will return to Tom for the comfort and protection that his money and power bring.
Although Daisy's true self comes out more and more each time Nick encounters her, her final actions help show what she has been really made of. When she hits and kills Myrtle Wilson, and then leaves the scene, readers know as poor Gatsby still does not that she is void of a conscience. Perhaps all that white that has surrounded her isn't so much purity although Gatsby, of course, would see it as such , but perhaps the white represents a void, a lack as in a lack of intellectualism and a lack of conscience.
To Daisy, Myrtle is expendable. She is not of the social elite, so what difference does her death make? Gatsby maintained the lie, which allowed their relationship to progress. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy and the wealth she represents, and she with him though apparently not to the same excessive extent , but he had to leave for the war and by the time he returned to the US in , Daisy has married Tom Buchanan.
Who did Daisy really love in The Great Gatsby? Gatsby in not actually in love with Daisy either. He is in love with the idea of Daisy. Daisy is materialistic. She stays married to her rich husband even though she is aware of his affairs. Did Daisy die in The Great Gatsby? Dan Cody died years before the story began.
Is Nick in love with Gatsby? In that novel, Nick loves Gatsby, the erstwhile James Gatz of North Dakota, for his capacity to dream Jay Gatsby into being and for his willingness to risk it all for the love of a beautiful woman.
In a queer reading of Gatsby, Nick doesn't just love Gatsby, he's in love with him. Who kills Gatsby? George Wilson. What was in the letter Daisy got from Gatsby? Before Gatsby left for war, Daisy promised to wait for him.
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