Jordan in The Great Gatsby demonstrates women who are objectified by men and treated as their trophies‚ while also showing how these women have no substance of their own; they are empty shells‚ meant for beauty and entertainment. Daisy Buchanan‚ wife of Tom Buchanan and former lover of Jay Gatsby‚ is a woman who is selfish‚ cowardly‚ whose feelings ran shallow‚ and who lacked a moral conscience. A way that the reader can see that Daisy is extraordinarily shallow is how she reacted when Gatsby showed
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Jay Gatsby can be characterized as a war veteran who is simply desperate to regain his young love‚ Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby has spent many years changing his life in order to win Daisy back‚ but when they finally meet again‚ “… Daisy tumbled short of his dreams” (Fitzgerald 95). Gatsby spent years building up an elaborate imagination of what he thought Daisy would be like when he finally met with her again. Not only does he spend many years thinking about her‚ he uses his time becoming the man he thinks
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Chapter five of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby focusses on the afternoon tea in which Jay Gatsby is to reconnect with Daisy Buchanan as planned in chapter four. The chapter begins with Nick coming home to West Egg seeing his neighborhood in “ablaze” and leading him to fear his home had caught on fire (Fitzgerald 86). It turns out the “fire” was simply Gatsby’s monstrous mansion illuminating light which highlights the actual multitude that is the Gatsby estate. As the chapter
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After World War I‚ people’s lifestyles‚ values‚ culture‚ and faith went through drastic changes. The new trends opened up new aspects of life and destroyed the Victorian era values. Such values include sexual self control‚ low tolerance of crime‚ and a strict social code of behavior. The devastation left from WWI‚ the absence of hope and faith and the loss of values contributed to many authors’ feelings that the world lacked purpose. This is visible in literary works: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
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hire to attend and perform during his parties. His real name‚ however‚ was James Gatz. He changed it on his own will to essentially get a fresh start from his old life. Throughout the novel we learn that Gatsby is in love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan and would do anything to win her heart. To combat this‚ he turns to bootlegging‚ an illegal activity‚ to build up his wealth to attempt to attract the attention of Daisy. Nick Carraway – Nick is the man who’s eyes the story is written through.
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The Great Gatsby appear to adore the freedom of the 1920s‚ their lives reveal the decline of happiness that results when wealth and pleasure swallow them. Specifically‚ through the wealth-greedy lives of three characters‚ Jay Gatsby‚ Tom Buchanan‚ and Daisy Buchanan‚ Fitzgerald portrays that a materialistic lifestyle does not lead to happiness and causes a decline of the American Dream. A character who holds
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who intimidate not only to his wife in the way he behaves‚ but also to his lover‚ Myrtle Wilson because he has a strong personality. And Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville (Kentucky). She is Nick ’s cousin. She chose to marry Tom Buchanan‚ a man who belonged to a solid‚ aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy
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appears pure in a world of cheats and liars‚ but in reality‚ she shares the deficiency of morals just as every other faulty character in the novel. Regardless of her love for Jay Gatsby prior to him leaving for the war‚ she still chose to marry Tom Buchanan because he promised her a wealthy lifestyle. After she realizes Gatsby has become incredibly rich over the past 5 years‚ she bends her head into his pile of shirts and cries‚ “they’re such beautiful shirts. It makes me sad because I’ve never seen
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However‚ the behavior and presentation of The Buchanans disproves this statement that the lower social classes were crude and vulgar. Daisy is presented by Fitzgerald to be a shallow and “careless” character‚ who easily can manipulate people to her own advantage. The most obvious event which depicts this presentation is the fact that she did not attend the funeral of Gatsby‚ of whom she “loved…too”‚ she didn’t even send a “message or a flower”. Tom Buchanan disproves the statement because ultimately
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while neighboring East Egg is home to the insular‚ narrow-minded denizens of the old aristocracy. Nick’s house is next door to Gatsby’s enormous‚ vulgar Gothic mansion. One night‚ he attends a dinner party in East Egg; the party is given by Tom Buchanan and his wife‚ Daisy. Daisy is Nick’s cousin‚ while Tom was Nick’s classmate at Yale. Tom comes from a wealthy‚ established family‚ and was a much-feared football player while at Yale. A friend of Daisy’s is also in attendance. This woman‚ whose name
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