What Is Daisy's Relationship In The Great Gatsby
The book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald had several relationships. One relationship that shouldn’t be is with Tom and Daisy. What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more (What is Love by Haddaway). This is the book’s theme because clearly, Tom and Daisy have no idea what love is. All they do is cheat on each other, and hurt each other with emotions revolving around who loves who. Tom and Daisy don’t belong together because Daisy doesn’t love Tom and they don’t have the same values, but they only stay together because money keeps them together, and Daisy is attracted to Tom’s money. Daisy loving Tom’s money is a problem, she doesn’t love Tom for who he is, but for what he has. The book supports the fact that Daisy
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Proof that Daisy doesn’t love Tom was shown on chapter 7, Tom and Gatsby fight over whether or not Daisy loves him or Gatsby. “Your wife doesn’t love you,” said Gatsby. “She’s never loved you. She loves me.”(Fitzgerald 130). Later in the passage, Gatsby tells Tom that she only married him because he, Gatsby, was poor at the time, and that he was busy fighting in the war. She couldn’t wait for him, so she married Tom because he was wealthy. The ultimate proof that Daisy never loved Tom was when she said, “I never loved him”(Fitzgerald …show more content…
She is all about money. The book provides many examples that prove that she is all about wealth. “Her voice is full of money,” “that was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it…. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl….”(Fitzgerald 120) This quote says a lot about Daisy. It basically says that the only thing she cares about is money. When Tom says that her voice is full of money, it means that whenever she talks, she talks in a way that rich people would talk, like in a fancy-like way, because she has money. Tom loves himself. Tom likes to think that he is better than everyone else. Tom calls Gatsby a nobody. He also thinks that blacks and white shouldn’t be together because he thinks that white people are too good to be with black people. The two value completely different things. Basically, Daisy is all about money, and Tom is all about
Proof that Daisy doesn’t love Tom was shown on chapter 7, Tom and Gatsby fight over whether or not Daisy loves him or Gatsby. “Your wife doesn’t love you,” said Gatsby. “She’s never loved you. She loves me.”(Fitzgerald 130). Later in the passage, Gatsby tells Tom that she only married him because he, Gatsby, was poor at the time, and that he was busy fighting in the war. She couldn’t wait for him, so she married Tom because he was wealthy. The ultimate proof that Daisy never loved Tom was when she said, “I never loved him”(Fitzgerald …show more content…
She is all about money. The book provides many examples that prove that she is all about wealth. “Her voice is full of money,” “that was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it…. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl….”(Fitzgerald 120) This quote says a lot about Daisy. It basically says that the only thing she cares about is money. When Tom says that her voice is full of money, it means that whenever she talks, she talks in a way that rich people would talk, like in a fancy-like way, because she has money. Tom loves himself. Tom likes to think that he is better than everyone else. Tom calls Gatsby a nobody. He also thinks that blacks and white shouldn’t be together because he thinks that white people are too good to be with black people. The two value completely different things. Basically, Daisy is all about money, and Tom is all about