Daisy's Love In The Great Gatsby

Gatsby and Daisy hide under the term ‘love’ to justify their own demons. Gatsby uses Daisy as an umbrella to cover his own ambitions and insecurities. We see Gatsby jumping from not having money to being a rich man, he states that everything he does is for Daisy, but inside he is just feeding his ego. It is his own way to prove to the world that he is capable of the unthinkable. On another hand, Daisy is capable of killing a person and lets Jay Gatsby take the blame just in the name of Love. She is protected by the love of Gatsby and she does not bother to send flowers to Gatsby when he dies. “Daisy has not sent a message or a flower” (pg. 165 Ch. VII). The author amplifies that trait when he writes “The death car as the newspaper called