Discuss how Fitzgerald presents Gatsbys obsession with Daisy
Discuss how Fitzgerald presents Gatsby’s infatuation with Daisy and how his love for her becomes obsessive.
Fitzgerald presents Gatsby's infatuation and obsessive love with Daisy in a clear and upfront way, as if he isn't trying to hide it. Daisy, who is partially based on Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda, is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. She was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby.
Fitzgerald shows Gatsby's desperation for Daisy's love and approval in all the lies he tells to create a new persona that she will, hopefully, approve. However his lies do get out of control. Gatsby's past is fragmented throughout the book. However there are two versions of his history, the events attached to Jay Gatsby and the events of James Gatz. We first hear of Gatsby's past from Gatsby himself. He decided to tell Carraway his background as he didn't “want you (Carraway) to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear” but really he just wanted to show off and in the back of his mind he probably wanted him to pass on this information to Daisy. It's also ironic that Gatsby says he is going to tell him “God’s truth” despite the fact that it's all lies. Even with Gatsby's well rehearsed lies he doesn't completely convince Carraway as "for a moment I suspected he was pulling my leg" causing him to wonder "if there wasn't something sinister about him, after all". Gatsby's lies are excessive as he says he "lived like a young rajah", "educated in Oxford" as all his "ancestors have been educated there for years" and that during the war he was "promoted to be a major" and “every allied government gave me a decoration” including a medal for "for valour extraordinary". Although they are all based on real events in his life, for example- he did go to Oxford, except he was educated for only 5 months therefore never graduated and he didn't want to be there as
Fitzgerald presents Gatsby's infatuation and obsessive love with Daisy in a clear and upfront way, as if he isn't trying to hide it. Daisy, who is partially based on Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda, is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. She was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby.
Fitzgerald shows Gatsby's desperation for Daisy's love and approval in all the lies he tells to create a new persona that she will, hopefully, approve. However his lies do get out of control. Gatsby's past is fragmented throughout the book. However there are two versions of his history, the events attached to Jay Gatsby and the events of James Gatz. We first hear of Gatsby's past from Gatsby himself. He decided to tell Carraway his background as he didn't “want you (Carraway) to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear” but really he just wanted to show off and in the back of his mind he probably wanted him to pass on this information to Daisy. It's also ironic that Gatsby says he is going to tell him “God’s truth” despite the fact that it's all lies. Even with Gatsby's well rehearsed lies he doesn't completely convince Carraway as "for a moment I suspected he was pulling my leg" causing him to wonder "if there wasn't something sinister about him, after all". Gatsby's lies are excessive as he says he "lived like a young rajah", "educated in Oxford" as all his "ancestors have been educated there for years" and that during the war he was "promoted to be a major" and “every allied government gave me a decoration” including a medal for "for valour extraordinary". Although they are all based on real events in his life, for example- he did go to Oxford, except he was educated for only 5 months therefore never graduated and he didn't want to be there as