Daisy's Power In The Great Gatsby
What is it that can drive a man with so much passion? Maybe it's the lust of the flesh perhaps. And what
of a woman? What makes her heart flutter with indecision and pure pressure? In this story "The Great
Gatsby." By F. Scott Fitzgerald, we see a man by the name of Jay Gatsby who is still deeply in love with
a woman who is already married to someone else. Daisy Buchanan is a very wealthy pinup girl living in
the 1920's in East Egg New York with her husband Tom Buchanan. Little does she know of Gatsby still
being alive from serving in the military, nor does she know of her husbands whereabouts with other
women. Daisy Buchanan will have some hard decisions to face, but what will she do with them? Daisy is
smart and intelligent. …show more content…
Daisy is using her power over people to play dumb and say
something like she did about her daughter. Most people would think that she's strange and slightly
mentally off for her to say something like that, but when in reality she has it all under control. "You see I
usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that
happened to me." Gatsby is trying to forget his past from when he was poor and a nobody. He doesn't
want to be seen as a nobody, he wants Daisy to see him in all his glory with his extravagant parties and
large sumptuous house. Gatsby loves Daisy but nobody knows how Daisy truly feels about Gatsby. This
quote is great because the way it states that even though you (paraphrasing.) want life to go smoothly and
bend to your will, it won't always to do that or maybe not even aLOL. You can't go through life without
losses and scars it just doesn't work that way. "It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should
you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our
of a woman? What makes her heart flutter with indecision and pure pressure? In this story "The Great
Gatsby." By F. Scott Fitzgerald, we see a man by the name of Jay Gatsby who is still deeply in love with
a woman who is already married to someone else. Daisy Buchanan is a very wealthy pinup girl living in
the 1920's in East Egg New York with her husband Tom Buchanan. Little does she know of Gatsby still
being alive from serving in the military, nor does she know of her husbands whereabouts with other
women. Daisy Buchanan will have some hard decisions to face, but what will she do with them? Daisy is
smart and intelligent. …show more content…
Daisy is using her power over people to play dumb and say
something like she did about her daughter. Most people would think that she's strange and slightly
mentally off for her to say something like that, but when in reality she has it all under control. "You see I
usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that
happened to me." Gatsby is trying to forget his past from when he was poor and a nobody. He doesn't
want to be seen as a nobody, he wants Daisy to see him in all his glory with his extravagant parties and
large sumptuous house. Gatsby loves Daisy but nobody knows how Daisy truly feels about Gatsby. This
quote is great because the way it states that even though you (paraphrasing.) want life to go smoothly and
bend to your will, it won't always to do that or maybe not even aLOL. You can't go through life without
losses and scars it just doesn't work that way. "It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should
you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our