Jay Gatsby Everything Analysis

To Jimmy Gats aka Jay Gatsby everything is an object to be acquired. Throughout jimmy’s life he wanted to be wealthy and of a high social class. It was because of his desire to be rich that he started seeing things as objects, he began to obsess over acquiring what he needed to be “Gatsby.” After the war Jay started to become wealthy but even when he started to get everything he wanted, there was a prize he had let slip through his fingers many years before, Daisy Fay or Daisy Buchanan as she was known by after marrying wealthy Polo player Tom Buchanan. Jay met Daisy when he was a young officer, before he was stationed in France. I believe that when Jay met Daisy he was infatuated with her and might have blossomed into a young love. But he did eventually leave to France and lost touch with Daisy until five years later. During those five years he stopped being truly in love with her but desired her more than anything. He desired her in a similar way that Myrtle desired the puppy that she bought in New York. All Daisy was, was an object. Jay built up a fantasy in his head of who she was and she no longer was truly a human in his head.
To prove that Gatsby thought of Daisy as an object there is evidence of it when Gatsby states that Daisy’s voice sounded like money. A man in love would not compare a woman’s laugh to …show more content…
There is an example of that when everyone is at one of Gatsby’s lavish parties. Gatsby and Daisy sneak away to talk. Daisy says “Why can’t we just run away?” Jay in this scene shows that he prefers his objects over love. A man in love wouldn’t think twice about what he has over a woman, but Jay immediately thought of his possessions such as his car, house, money, status, and “friends.” Jimmy/ Jay is exactly who they want to be. He would not put love over that showing again that he doesn’t actually love Daisy and that he doesn’t truly love in