The Great Gatsby Daisy Selfish

Gatsby’s one goal was to live a happy life with Daisy, just like he did all those years ago. This doesn’t end up happening since Daisy doesn’t leave Tom to go and get back with Gatsby. During Gatsby and Tom’s argument Daisy pleads with Tom to take her away and for them to leave, saying, “Please, Tom! I can’t stand this any more”(Fitzgerald 134). This was the moment where Gatsby’s dream life with Daisy began to slip out of his hands, as Daisy chose to stay with Tom.

Firstly, Daisy shows her unhappiness with her own life when she starts to sob when Gatsby is throwing his beautiful shirts down at her. As Daisy cries, "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). As this Scene plays out, Daisy lies to Gatsby telling him false reasonings for her tears. This is because she doesn't want to admit that she is realizing that she missed a life to be with Gatsby and that she is unhappy and maybe even unsatisfied with her choices.

During an outing in town, Gatsby confronts Tom hoping that Daisy will leave him and confess her true feelings, however she hesitates and “[realizes] at last what she [is] doing—and as though she [has] never, all along, [any intention in] doing anything at all” (Fitzgerald 132). Gatsby is unable to receive the confession he desires, as Daisy merely views him as an affair rather than a true potential lover. Despite Gatsby’s ambition, Daisy prefers Tom’s inherent wealth and luxury over Gatsby’s own self-made success. Since Tom’s wealth is more financially stable, Daisy is unable to confess any attraction towards Gatsby and risk losing the materialistic value from Tom. After the argument over Daisy’s affection between Gatsby and Tom, Nick Carroway, a mutual friend, observes Tom and Daisy noticing the two share “an unmistakable air of natural intimacy…and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together” (Fitzgerald 145).

Daisy does not care for others, and she values Tom 's money over Gatsby 's love. The materialistic values that Daisy holds, therefore, ultimately corrupt her. Her corruption is further proven when Gatsby later describes to Nick Daisy 's car accident, "Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and lost her nerve and turned back... Daisy stepped on it." (151).

In the book, Tom says, “And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart, I love her all the time” (Fitgerald 131). Their relationship isn’t close perfect and they both know that, but it fills them both with an odd sense of comfort. This sense of comfort is what causes Daisy to stay with him; therefore, she feels that if she leaves him she won’t feel that same comfort. Also, when Gatsby would plan things to do with Daisy, she usually did not act like it was as big of a deal as Gatsby acted.

Daisy cuts Gatsby off and marries Tom. Tom and Daisy's… enthusiasm to maintain their glamorous, entitled lives makes the people in their lives expendable. Though Daisy seems to have loved Gatsby in her own way, “[...] her mother had found her packing her bag one winter; and say goodbye to a soldier...” (76) she still gives him the boot. When he enters her life once again, she again sacrifices him to secure her own comfort.

Daisy cries in regret over Gatsby's shirts. In chapter 5 Daisy and Gatsby rekindle by Nick's help, 5 years ago Daisy and Gatbys were supposed to get married but Daisy broke it off because Gatsby didn't have any money. IGatsby thought it would be a good idea to rekindle with Daisy. Gatsby shows off his house to Daisy and his shirts. Gatsby is throwing his shirts one by by showing them to daisy,As gatsby pulled out many shirts daisy begins to cry she thought gatsby had the most nicest shirts and beings to cry in regret

She acknowledges her feelings but doesn’t stop to think about anyone else's emotions. In addition to her love for Gatsby, she is extremely encouraged to act due to anything related to wealth. When she is in Gatsby’s house, she cries over the shirts, saying “‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before” (92). Daisy was crying because she lost what she could have had, which was a happy marriage with Gatsby and a wealthy lifestyle. She left Gatsby because he couldn’t provide for her, but she had once loved him.

It was too late. ‘I never loved him,’ she said, with perceptible reluc-tance.” So here, Daisy admitted that she never actually loved Tom, but she was still with him just because of his assets and his wealth. This is another indication of her personality, that even though she really loved Gatsby, Daisy just couldn't take a risk with him and possibly be a lower-class citizen. She chose money over somebody who genuinely cared about her and loved her up until his death, unlike Tom, who was cheating on her

(99) In this moment, Gatsby makes it clear to Daisy that he could easily provide her with the same lifestyle she shares with Tom. Once Gatsby captures Daisy’s affection, he becomes full of greed and doesn’t want to believe she ever gave any of her love to Tom. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” (118) When Daisy states “‘Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,’ (142), Gatsby begins to feel a “touch of panic” (142). All of his parties, stories, and entire persona were all fabricated to win Daisy back.

In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed as a modern woman; she is sophisticated, careless and beautifully shallow. Daisy knows who she is, and what it takes for her to be able to keep the lifestyle she grew up in, and this adds to her carelessness and her feigned interest in life. In all, Daisy is a woman who will not sacrifice material desires or comfort for love or for others, and her character is politely cruel in this way. Daisy’s main strength, which buoyed her throughout her youth and when she was in Louisville, is her ability to know what was expected of her and feign cluelessness.

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After all the arguing, at the end she turns to Tom so the whole situation can be over. She fails Gatsby and doesn 't do the one thing she had to do to make Gatsby happy. All she had to do was tell Tom she didn 't love him and everything would go as planned. She is so dumb, Tom cheats on her all the time but she had the decency to stay with him and still tell Gatsby to his face that she loves Tom too. Tom is a pig and the things he does are disgusting, but Daisy had a chance of retaliation and she didn 't take it.

Daisy is deeply influenced by the conventions of the upper class and has been groomed to marry into wealth and privilege. Her character is revealed when her voice is described to be "full of money” (128). Daisy is a woman whose very being is defined by her beauty, and she accepts that her role in life is to acquire money through marriage and to maintain that beauty. However, after acquiring both of these things, her life is far from satisfactory. When Gatsby and Daisy first started seeing each other, Gatsby states how the idea that many men “already loved Daisy” only “increased her value in his eyes” (158-159).

The novel and movie portrays Daisy as allowing everyone to talk to her, and possessing a childlike innocence. In chapter 7, Tom and Gatsby argue in the hotel room, on that very hot day, about who Daisy truly loves. Gatsby tells Tom, “She never loved you do you hear? She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.