Essay On Daisy's Ambition In The Great Gatsby

Are you in love or rather obsessed with your significant other? In the great Gatsby by Fitzgerald there is once a poor man in love with a women who he hasn’t seen in five years. Once they reunite he wants to relive the past, but there are obstacles in between them two. Gatsby has always been obsessed with his achievements. Therefore his love for Daisy is another obsession rather than true love. Gatsby was a poor man, his goal was to be rich. “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people”. Accomplishing his goals, then turned his achievements into obsessions. Jay Gatsby is a dreamer. “Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God”. Gatsby then met the innocent and pure version of a girl. Daisy belonged to a different social status from Gatsby. Gatsby then went to war and pursuit his goal of becoming wealthy for Daisy. …show more content…
Her name represented her. A daisy that is white from the outside implying that she is pure and innocent. “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen”, a promise that she had done gay, exciting things…” But yellow in the inside showing she has the desire of wealth. ‘ They were careless people Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” Daisy had always been in a higher social status. In those five years being away from Gatsby, she married a wealthy man without loving