Relationship Between Blanche Dubois And Jay Gatsby
Blanche and Gatsby Desire plays a large role in the lives of Jay Gatsby and Blanche DuBois. Gatsby has the desire to be with Daisy Buchanan and to feel her genuine love. Blanche has the desire to be loved and to feel young again. Yet the desire of both Gatsby and Blanche is unattainable. Gatsby could never fulfill his dreams with Daisy because of the fact that she is married and has a child. Blanche lies so frequently that her lies are keeping her from being truly loved. Desire begins to take over the lives of these two mysterious characters throughout the stories. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is trying to build an ideal lifestyle so that he can impress Daisy, hoping to win her heart back. He throws elaborate parties at his mansion
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with hundreds of guests, many of whom he has no association with at all, “half expecting her to wander into one some night, but she never did” (The Great Gatsby 79). The location of his mansion is in view of Daisy, “but it wasn’t a coincidence at all. Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Gatsby 78). He began asking around casually about her, seeing if people knew her. He even went to the extent of reading the Chicago newspaper every day, hoping to just catch a sight of her name. Gatsby wants to see Daisy again, face-to-face, but he does not want to be upfront about it.
He tries seeing her through other people, hoping to make it seem like a coincidence when they meet up. That is why he denied the idea that Jordan Baker gave him about inviting Daisy to lunch. Instead, he incorporates Nick into his scheme. He asks Nick to invite Daisy to tea at his house. While she is there, Gatsby would go over to Nick’s house to see her, acting as if he had no idea of her whereabouts. He wanted Nick to have her over at his house so that he could show her his house. In Gatsby’s mind, he believes that he needs to show off in order to impress Daisy and to win her back. He shows off his car, his house, his butler, and every other detail inside and outside his house. It seems to work for Daisy. As she looks at his shirts, though, she begins to cry. “’They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen-such beautiful shirts before’” (Gatsby 92). Daisy isn’t crying because the shirts are beautiful, though. She is crying because she realizes everything that she could have had, she cannot have anymore. Gatsby, on the other hand, still has not come to realizations that he and Daisy being together is
unfeasible. Just as Gatsby had gone out of his way to impress the love of his life, Blanche DuBois lies about her past, hoping to protect her future. When Blanche arrives in New Orleans at her sister’s two bedroom apartment, she begins to lie from the start. Her sister, Stella, had asked about her reason for arrival and she answered saying that she was on vacation. The truth was that she had been fired from her teaching job because she had an affair with a 17 year old student. Later on, other stories begin to get revealed about Blanche’s past, but no one knows whether or not they are true. Blanche was supposedly banned from a hotel called The Flamingo because of her provocative way with men there. She had been previously married to a man who committed suicide because he was gay. Since then, to cope with the trauma, Blanche would put herself out to men. She would have sex with many young men for two main reasons. She wanted to feel loved and the only way she could fill that hole was to have sexual relations with men. Blanche also longs to be forever young, so when she is with younger men, it makes her feel younger also. When she arrived at Stella’s apartment, she was quick to put up a paper lantern over the light to create a dim look. Being in indistinctive lighting made her seem younger, not showing the aging on her face. Blanche’s clothing even lies about her. Her wardrobe is full of fine-looking furs and pearls of jewelry, but if looked at close enough, one will see how cheap they really are. She has the hopes of getting married again, hoping to escape her bad reputation of the past, but the Southern beau she was wanting to capture, Shep Huntleigh, is inexistent. Even though he is far from her ideal man, Blanche tries to settle for Mitch. She realizes that he is her last chance for commitment, but her lies prevent her from receiving Mitch’s love. Stanley destroys Blanche’s final ounce of self-esteem by raping her. “Oh! So you want some rough-house! All right, let’s have some rough-house!” (A Streetcar Named Desire 162). He later sends her to an insane asylum. When she leaves her sister, she leaves calmly. “Whoever you are-I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” (Streetcar 178). The drive of desire that both characters had, was vital to the stories. Gatsby loved Daisy so much that he would go out of his way just to see her and to make her happy. He wanted her unconditional love. Blanche just wanted to be loved again and to fill the empty space in her life. Her desire for love drove her crazy to the point where her life was based off of lies. Both characters’ lies make them seem as if they have a better life than what they had hoped for.
with hundreds of guests, many of whom he has no association with at all, “half expecting her to wander into one some night, but she never did” (The Great Gatsby 79). The location of his mansion is in view of Daisy, “but it wasn’t a coincidence at all. Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Gatsby 78). He began asking around casually about her, seeing if people knew her. He even went to the extent of reading the Chicago newspaper every day, hoping to just catch a sight of her name. Gatsby wants to see Daisy again, face-to-face, but he does not want to be upfront about it.
He tries seeing her through other people, hoping to make it seem like a coincidence when they meet up. That is why he denied the idea that Jordan Baker gave him about inviting Daisy to lunch. Instead, he incorporates Nick into his scheme. He asks Nick to invite Daisy to tea at his house. While she is there, Gatsby would go over to Nick’s house to see her, acting as if he had no idea of her whereabouts. He wanted Nick to have her over at his house so that he could show her his house. In Gatsby’s mind, he believes that he needs to show off in order to impress Daisy and to win her back. He shows off his car, his house, his butler, and every other detail inside and outside his house. It seems to work for Daisy. As she looks at his shirts, though, she begins to cry. “’They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen-such beautiful shirts before’” (Gatsby 92). Daisy isn’t crying because the shirts are beautiful, though. She is crying because she realizes everything that she could have had, she cannot have anymore. Gatsby, on the other hand, still has not come to realizations that he and Daisy being together is
unfeasible. Just as Gatsby had gone out of his way to impress the love of his life, Blanche DuBois lies about her past, hoping to protect her future. When Blanche arrives in New Orleans at her sister’s two bedroom apartment, she begins to lie from the start. Her sister, Stella, had asked about her reason for arrival and she answered saying that she was on vacation. The truth was that she had been fired from her teaching job because she had an affair with a 17 year old student. Later on, other stories begin to get revealed about Blanche’s past, but no one knows whether or not they are true. Blanche was supposedly banned from a hotel called The Flamingo because of her provocative way with men there. She had been previously married to a man who committed suicide because he was gay. Since then, to cope with the trauma, Blanche would put herself out to men. She would have sex with many young men for two main reasons. She wanted to feel loved and the only way she could fill that hole was to have sexual relations with men. Blanche also longs to be forever young, so when she is with younger men, it makes her feel younger also. When she arrived at Stella’s apartment, she was quick to put up a paper lantern over the light to create a dim look. Being in indistinctive lighting made her seem younger, not showing the aging on her face. Blanche’s clothing even lies about her. Her wardrobe is full of fine-looking furs and pearls of jewelry, but if looked at close enough, one will see how cheap they really are. She has the hopes of getting married again, hoping to escape her bad reputation of the past, but the Southern beau she was wanting to capture, Shep Huntleigh, is inexistent. Even though he is far from her ideal man, Blanche tries to settle for Mitch. She realizes that he is her last chance for commitment, but her lies prevent her from receiving Mitch’s love. Stanley destroys Blanche’s final ounce of self-esteem by raping her. “Oh! So you want some rough-house! All right, let’s have some rough-house!” (A Streetcar Named Desire 162). He later sends her to an insane asylum. When she leaves her sister, she leaves calmly. “Whoever you are-I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” (Streetcar 178). The drive of desire that both characters had, was vital to the stories. Gatsby loved Daisy so much that he would go out of his way just to see her and to make her happy. He wanted her unconditional love. Blanche just wanted to be loved again and to fill the empty space in her life. Her desire for love drove her crazy to the point where her life was based off of lies. Both characters’ lies make them seem as if they have a better life than what they had hoped for.