The Great Gatsby Deserve The American Dream

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“And I hope she’ll be a fool that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”This is a quote that daisy used to say that what she wants her daughter to be. Daisy reach the American Dream half way what I mean is by she has most of what a girl wants which is marriage, family, and a white picket fence, but she doesn’t have what a true woman deserves which is respect, loyalty, and excitement. Daisy reached her American Dream as she imagined it. First part of a girl's dream is marriage, Daisy found love when she met Tom sometime during the years when they were younger than they got married, but someone from her past came back into her life his name his Gatsby and she thought he was dead because he went to the Civil War she loved him so much that she cried on her wedding day because she got the letter that he was dead. Then she had found out that Gatsby was Nick neighbor, but Gatsby knew that Daisy lived at East Egg which is …show more content…
In chapter 1 page 15 Tom and Daisy came out of the living room from a phone call which have been made by Tom’s mistress in New York as Miss Baker said and when they came back she was mad and embarrassed and disrespected because the woman called in the middle of the day. In chapter 7 page 126 Tom snap at Daisy because she was complaining about the heat in front of Jordan Gatsby and Nick and Gatsby try to protect her and tell Tom to take it easy on her, like the heat brings out the worst in people. Another thing that Daisy wants is loyalty, in chapter two Tom and Nick went to New York to meet Myrtle who is Tom's mistress, but Myrtle was also married to George Wilson. Daisy knows about the affair but in a 1920s women didn't have the same rights as women do

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