How Does Daisy Create Happiness In The Great Gatsby

The fact that Daisy showing her love for him isn’t enough for Gatsby shows that he has devotion more to an idea the Daisy her self.

In the year of 1925 there was a group of so called friends that were fairly wealthy but they did not have the greatest mindset on money, what it was used for, or what it did for you and throughout this story it is a learning experience for the characters and will open your eyes as a reader. In the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the claim to me is Wealth is not the main factor in happiness. I believe this because all the wealthy people in this story are sad or force real action ships where they are both not happy, an example of this Gatsby moves from North Dakota to Rhode Island to make a dream home to impress daisy which works for a little bit until the next person comes with money. Another example is nick says that gatsby left

To Gatsby it is more than the money, it is the ambition to get what he desires, while to Daisy, it only resembles what she wants in life,

In F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, the rich and the poor lived privileged lives but were separated between new and old money and also the rich and the poor. These rich people always showed off their wealth and power by simply living their lives. These very privileged people seemed to live different lives from others which was easily perceived by the lower class and the readers. Daisy Buchanan displays these characteristics which is clearly evident.      

They seek wealth in all forms. Each person wants to be the happiest, the richest, and the prettiest. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is just another example of chasing an impossible dream. He goes to extreme lengths to prove his worth over Tom’s, and attempts to push away what he knows to be true, that they will never be together. Daisy and Tom are the epitome of superficial because neither act with any depth, and they do everything just for appearances.

The word selfish is defined as, “devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others” (Selfish). When people act selfishly they care for themselves and what they get out of everything. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Daisy's indecisiveness, selfishness, and longing for the past romance causes Gatsby's death. Daisy's selfishness is a root cause of Gatsby’s death. She is a very young woman that isn't well matured yet, and does not understand the concept of love and has many mixed feelings.

”(Fitzgerald 130). Gatsby knew that Daisy was self-centered and only cared about wealth, because if she truly loved him, she would wait for him to return back. Daisy believes that money resolves problems. This reflects on Tom’s and Daisy’s marriage. Even though, Tom treats Daisy poorly and betrays her, Daisy does not seem to care because of Tom’s wealth.

“Suddenly with a strained sound Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. ‘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” (98). Often, critics have simply inferred from this quote that Daisy is incredibly materialistic, and have left their analysis of her character barely brushing the surface. Daisy cries because the man who once looked at her like she was a person and indispensable is now trying to buy her, objectifying her once more in a way she never expected him to.

Gatsby gained feelings for this women that only wanted to get revenge on her husband. This action by Daisy is disgusting in the way that Gatsby loved this women so much that he was willing to die for her but all Daisy wanted was revenge on Tom for what he had did to her. Leading someone on, especially to the extent that Daisy does is utterly disrespectful. Daisy knows how in love Gatsby was for her and yet claims that she is in love with Gatsby also but is using him to get back at Tom. This shows how selfish Daisy actually is, she does not care about other people’s feelings and only cares about herself.

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about how the interactions between money and love have major effects on the relationships between Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby. The relationship between Tom and Daisy is built more on money rather than love, however, there is little bits of love. Daisy marries Tom because of his wealth, but throughout their relationship she does, fall in love with Tom at least once. Also, Tom uses his money to basically buy Daisy’s love showing that he wants to have love in his life. The relationship between Gatsby and Daisy is also built on wealth, but it also involves love, alike the relationship of Tom and Daisy.

Trusting they are socially equivalent, Daisy never again has any misgivings about drawing near to Gatsby, who soon begins to look all starry eyed at her. After finding Gatsby 's façade, Daisy quickly "vanishes… into her rich full life" (157), staying "protected and pleased over… poor people" (156). Her recusal into the extravagances of high society reflects both her dread of dejection and scorn for the penurious. For her, riches is a basic piece of any relationship, which means Gatsby, with his absence of material belonging, is not any more an alternative. Tom, then again, is an advantageous source "of adoration, of cash, of undeniable reasonableness" (159) who can supply her with the measure of social security important to pacify her.

Daisy is so distraught that Gatsby isn’t there for her when she needs him that she had decided to marry Tom. When she received Gatsby’s letter, Tom was nowhere in her mind and she wanted to give the pearls back to “whoever they belong[ed] to” (74). The letter was all she had left to hold on to in order to hold onto her love for Gatsby because he wasn’t physically there. After her bath, Jordan and the maid get her under control and the “next day at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver” (74). Daisy is forced to drown her pain down the drain and to go forward with marrying Tom because she knows that Gatsby can’t provide for her the way she needs.

Historically, the 1920s were a period of boundless economic growth and expansive consumerism in the United States of America. Amidst the vast forests of advertisements and streets packed bumper-to-bumper with Ford’s Model T, money rapidly became a symbol of societal power. Credit allowed United States’ citizens to develop a buy-now-pay-later mentality, inspiring the unwarranted augmentation of materialism. Despite this, the Jazz Age came quickly to an end upon the occurrence of Black Tuesday, in which the stock market crashed irrecoverably, leaving millions in poverty.

The love Gatsby feels for Daisy is unethical and the green light loses its enchanted qualities and instead it

She can’t free herself from the constraints of wealthy society in the past or now. Although Daisy loved Gatsby at one point, she ended up marrying Tom. During Tom and Gatsby’s argument, Tom sneers and makes snide comments at Gatsby’s background and upbringing, claiming how he knows that his newfound wealth from bootlegging is seedy, Daisy is affected and eventually concludes her rendezvous with Gatsby and chooses Tom over him