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Ø In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust and
obsession, through the character of Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and
obsession with love
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The author interconnects the
relationships of the various prominent characters to support these ideas
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studymode
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html - Lust, Love and Obsession in the Great Gatsby – studymode -
October 1999
Ø Fitzgerald uses empathy in order to sway the readers to his way of
thinking
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The ‘trembling’ (Page 16)
detailed in the statement shows the depth of emotion he is feeling and he
may even be crying
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He is reaching towards something so far away
and out of his reach
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Gatsby
is reaching forwards, but he is actually reaching back into the past,
towards a Daisy that doesn’t exist anymore
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They share a forbidden love because they are from completely
different social backgrounds
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So much so, in fact, that he moves
all the way to Long Island in order to live across the bay from her and her
husband, Tom
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Gatsby feels like he would do
anything for Daisy and in the end he even takes the fall for her when she
kills Myrtle, resulting in his own death
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"Here, deares'
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"Take 'em down-stairs and
give 'em back to whoever they belong to
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Say: 'Daisy's change' her mine!'" (Page 49)
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To Daisy, it was more of a love that
will shield pain away while Gatsby was gone to Oxford and to live
satisfyingly
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On the one hand it could
represent her guilt in choosing Tom over Gatsby, but on the other hand it
could represent the pain and agony she is feeling when she chose money
over love
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Throughout most of the novel we only feel that Daisy is attention-

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seeking and childish, but when she is drunk another side comes out, one
that feels guilty for the decisions she made and wishes to change them
even though it is already too late
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When she’s drunk she wants to change her mind and marry the man she
truly loves, but in the light of day she does what she was born to do:
marry the rich Tom Buchanan
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Tom could not marry
below his station and therefore ‘the relationship with Daisy was a way to
maintain his position as an East Egger and keep his money’ (Jae, 2008)
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Daisy, on the other hand, used her marriage in
order to take away the pain from Gatsby’s leaving for the war and in order
to ‘live satisfyingly’
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Therefore, even though she may have loved him, she would have never
married Gatsby because he was below her station
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He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued
everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew
from her well-loved eyes
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Once he nearly toppled down a
flight of stairs
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Ø Daisy may not love Tom as much as Gatsby, but she cannot bear the
thought of living in the low class world of "new money"
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com/homework-help/chapter-7-why-do-youbelieve-that-daisy-staye-400042 – The Great Gatsby – bigdreams1 – May
22, 2011
Ø Fitzgerald uses periphrasis in order to emphasis the depth of Gatsby’s
feelings for Daisy
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Simply saying ‘he was
astounded by her presence’ wouldn’t have had the same sort of effect
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However, she left him once and she could do it
again
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Their love would never
work because she was not committed to it
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Daisy ‘cannot bear the thought of living in the low class
world of ‘new money’ (bigdreams1, 2011)
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However, she loves being the
centre of attention
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“‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously
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He
believes that if Daisy were to leave Tom and go away with him that the
two of them could pick up exactly where they left off before Gatsby went
to war and totally ignore the years that have passed and the lives that
were lived in those years
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On the surface this statement – ‘can’t repeat the past’ … ‘why of course
you can!’ (Page 70) – seems simple and plain
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He wants to
make sure that Daisy felt that he was rich and powerful enough to marry
and that he was worth her love and affections
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Gatsby has not
moved on from his past and is obsessed with trying to recreate it because
that was the time in which he was happiest
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Without Daisy there to ground him, Gatsby feels
that his life has no purpose and that he has lost a significant part of who
he is
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Unless Gatsby
lets go of his past he will never be able to be happy with his life in the
present
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She is no longer the young, naïve girl she was
when they first met and fell in love
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She didn’t feel that
she could leave Tom, no matter whether Gatsby now had the same
amount of money
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“…Eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he
had no real right to touch her hand
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The pleasure of the rich, “careless people,” as a character calls them, came
at a cost to the rest, especially the middle class, the small people, mere
ants in black tie to be trampled by giants like Gatsby at their parties
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com/2013/06/01/the-myth-ofgatsbys-suffering-middle-class/?r=0 – The Myth of Gatsby’s Suffering
Middle Class– Amity Shlaes – June 1 2013
Fitzgerald uses empathy in the novel in order to make the reader
sympathize with the characters, namely Gatsby
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Gatsby feels unworthy of Daisy
because he comes from a poorer background than her and Tom and he
had to make his money through shady deals rather than inheriting it like
Tom did
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Gatsby knows that he doesn’t have the ‘right’, class and economic
standing, to possess Daisy
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Even ‘new wealth’ – like that of Gatsby’s – was looked down upon by the
titled nobility
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In the novel Tom and Daisy Buchanan believed
themselves to be above the lower classes – the middle class and the poor
– and therefore they did not have to answer to them
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This shows the contempt the upper class,
especially those living in the East Egg, had for the lower classes
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“…But he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her
believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself
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Although prohibition has made alcohol illegal, Gatsby always has a
surplus available at his wild social gatherings
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The story that unfolds
truly highlights the scandalous and risky nature of the Roaring Twenties
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The title itself – The Great Gatsby – has one view of
Gatsby’s personality, in that he was ‘great’
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He thought that if he made a lot of money, no
matter how he got it, Daisy would fall straight back into his arms
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This makes it seem like he is deceiving
Daisy in that he is not telling her the truth about his life
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However, the primary reason Gatsby worked so hard to
change himself is because he knows he intrinsically does not belong or fit
into the same social world that Daisy belongs in
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This quote seems to suggest that,
although he was trying to convince Daisy of his competency as a partner,
he was also trying to convince himself into believing that he is worthy

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enough to have her
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Gatsby
is mysterious and before he decides to tell Nick of his former life there is
little known about him except for the rumours that have already spread
about how he came into his money
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He throws the
parties in the hopes that the beautiful Daisy Buchanan would turn up and
could see how he had risen from the penniless James Gatz to the rich,
wealthy Jay Gatsby
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This shows that he is
wealthy because he can afford to import that amount of alcohol on an
almost monthly basis
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“Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth
imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy,
gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor
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Ø She’s warm, feverish, thrilling, intoxicating—a siren, an enchantress, a
blossoming flower
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She’s the quintessential Southern belle, cool in her white dress with her
white mansion and her little white mobile
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thedailybeast
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html – The Problems
With The Great Gatsby’s Daisy Buchanan– Katie Baker – May 10 2013
Ø Fitzgerald uses pathos in order to make the reader feel sadness and pity
for Gatsby because he is massively in love with Daisy but she would never
even look at him because he was not rich enough
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He sees Daisy as a tool that he can use to be a
part of the old wealth section of the upper class
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Not only that,
he describes Daisy the same way he would an aware – ‘gleaming like
silver, safe and proud’ – objectifying her while he claims to be in love with
her
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That is why their love is forbidden and was doomed from the start
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Daisy is ‘a siren, an enchantress, a blossoming flower’ (Katie
Baker, 2013)
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The colours’ of the flower she
represents reinforces this view
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White symbolizes innocent and purity, and yellow and gold

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symbolizes the money that Daisy is so in love with
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In ‘throughout this twilight universe
Daisy began to move again with the seasons’ (Page 96) we get the
impression that Daisy is not ready to settle down with just one man and
does not wish to have the white picket fence and loads of kids
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Her affections cannot be relied
upon because five years ago she said that she would wait for Gatsby until
he returned from the war but she got married to Tom Buchanan anyway
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Daisy’s spirit moves with the
season, which means that she doesn’t want to settle down
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Daisy was
not really ready to settle down and this is part of the reason why she
started the affair with Gatsby; she was scared of her current marriage
getting boring
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Gatsby
was so sick in love with Daisy that he would do anything to gain her
attention, even spending thousands of pounds on an almost monthly
basis
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” (Page 96)
Gatsby reinvents his identity and fortunes all to win back the girl he loved
from afar in his youth — Daisy Buchanan
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For example she ‘want[s] her life shaped
now’ (Page 96) whereas before she was flighty and unable to settle with
just one man
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Even if she wished to settle down it
would never have been with Gatsby because he did not have the social
status and power that she needed
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However, due to Gatsby’s absence, she was caught in a
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return, or move on
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He was wealthy and
able to provide the lifestyle she was ready to live
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This statement by Christopher Stevens shows the
pain Gatsby went through in order to prove his love and dedication to
Daisy
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’ ‘Don’t do it
to-day,’ Gatsby answered
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Ø In Gatsby, with its insider's view of the hollowness at the heart of the
modern American world, we have a world where money, status and
progress have become the new "savage gods", the new "green lights",
where the sense of religious vision has become reduced to an advertising
hoarding and the bespectacled figure of the now forgotten oculist T J
Eckelberg
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glyndwr
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uk/rdover/between/gatsby
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For example, ‘leaves’ll start falling pretty soon, and then there’s always
trouble with the pipes’ (Page 97) gives the impression that the West Egg
has a lot of trees and would be very green and lush in summer
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Gatsby tries to defy the passage of time and cling on to the
past; even as the autumn leaves are beginning to fall, he won’t let the
servant clean the pool, and instead decides to go swimming as though it
were still the height of summer
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Gatsby gives the ‘insider’s view of the hollowness at the heart of the
American world’ (glyndwr, 2013)
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Many of the inhabitants lived alone in
massive mansions and they owned more money than they knew what to
do with
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” (Page 68)
Ø Gatsby’s life is centered around his lost love, the beautiful Daisy, for
whom he throws lavish parties in the hope that she will hear of them and
be impressed, and they will someday reunite
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It is merely because
the only reason he threw these parties was so that Daisy might make an
appearance at one of them
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However, neither Daisy nor
Gatsby are allowed to act as they wish to because of the watchful eye of
Tom Buchanan, who will not allow himself to be cuckolded
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Daisy would not leave Tom because he was the epitome of what she had
been brought up to marry – wealthy and handsome – and she would
never leave him for Gatsby, no matter how much she professed to loving
him
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He ‘throws lavish parties’ with the
hope that she will hear of them and decide to show up
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” (Page 69)
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3), she loves to
exaggerate and extemporize
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5), and
Daisy enjoys being the center of attention (15,1
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She also hopes to be
liked and popular among the men around her
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html – Daisy
Buchanan – arbeit – 2013
Ø Fitzgerald uses hyperbole to show Daisy’s disgust as West Egg even
though, in reality, it is only slightly less fashionable than her own home
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The word
‘appalled’ makes it sound like West Egg is a rough, dilapidated area and
no one in their right mind would consider living there
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This
describes Daisy’s prejudice’s against ‘new money’ and the culture from
the West Egg, especially Broadway and the culture of rich people that
come from there
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She was
‘appalled by West Egg’ and yet Gatsby lived there
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Their love was doomed to failure right
from the start because she couldn’t ever live in West Egg as she deemed it
little better than a ‘fishing village’ in comparison to her extravagant home
in East Egg
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“And she doesn’t understand,” he said
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We’d sit for hours –” (Page 70)
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Before they separated,
they were in love
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http://hiltongatsbyproject
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com/No+longer+any+need+for+dr
eam+and+green+light+(92-96) – HiltonGatsbyProject –
HiltonGatsbyProject – 2013
Ø Gatsby is struggling to accept that things and people can change in five
years
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Gatsby is so set on recreating 1917 and the love
he and Daisy had before he went to war that he is almost detached from
reality
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Their
love is a forbidden one because he cannot let go of the past and she
doesn’t wish to revisit it
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‘Such a
long time apart has altered their perceptions of each other’
(HiltonGatsbyProject, 2013) and they both, Gatsby especially, are unable
to move on or get over what happened
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He references Daisy and Gatsby’s
meeting ‘five years next November’
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“‘You resemble the advertisement of the man,’ she went on innocently
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Ø Fitzgerald uses allusion to show Daisy’s innocence and incorruptibility
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‘You resemble the advertisement of the man’ is her way of
changing the subject from her and Gatsby’s affair, although none of them
are fooled and Tom has already realised that, just like him, she has had an
affair
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He believed that the only way he could have
her back was by impressing her with his wealth
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Gatsby stopped at
nothing to gain his assets
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uk/2009/08/great-gatsby
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She is portrayed as a flirt for much of the novel but she can also be quiet
and unsure
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Here, Daisy admits that Gatsby’s facade has worked
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She relates him to the actors and models that you see on the
billboards in the city, and those people are amongst the wealthiest of the
wealthy
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However, she
is in love with a lie because he is not really from her world and can never
truly belong
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However, she never did and eventually he grew desperate and
begged Nick to introduce them once more
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It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one
except me!’” (Page 83)
Ø She is a rich socialite who married an equally rich man, and they quite
deserve each other
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http://www
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com/homework-help/book-great-gatsby-what-oneadjective-quote-daisy-461780 – The Great Gatsby – scout40147 – October
31 2013
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This is how Gatsby
rationalized Daisy marrying Tom to himself, so that he could keep the
dream of reuniting with Daisy alive
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He
never asked Daisy about any of this, he just assumed it to be true
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Daisy is ‘a rich socialite who married an equally rich man’
(scout40147, 2013) and she has been brought up to believe that she
should not marry anyone below her own station
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Gatsby’s line of ‘she only married you because I
was poor’ accurately describes the flightiness of Daisy Buchanan

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