How Does Daisy Lose His Time In The Great Gatsby

Gatsby ends up getting humbled in the end when he asks Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him and Daisy can not do so. Daisy loved Gatsby, but she also did love Tom and her memories with him still mattered to her. Tom offered Daisy stability and reassurance. Daisy did not think Gatsby had enough to satisfy her back then and she continues to have this same feeling now. Gatsby is hurt by this but he does not give up on his love for her until finally she gives up on it for the both of them.

Attaching oneself to a memory or dream can completely dictate the life one lives. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby represents a character who contends with a personal aspect of the past. In continuation, Jay Gatsby has an obsession with the past and focuses his life around the time he has lost. Moreover, Gatsby has the solid belief that he will marry a girl named Daisy Buchanan and they will live in his mansion together. To ensure this dream, Gatsby found ways to acquire copious amounts of wealth, purchased a mansion across from Daisy’s home, and hosted expensive and lavish parties in hopes she’d attend.

He spent years obtaining money to create a life that would exceed her expectations. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is what motivates him to gain wealth and status through illegal means ultimately leading to his downfall.

In a conversation with Tom, Gatsby points out, “Your wife doesn’t love you” (Fitzgerald 130). Gatsby is so convinced that Daisy is in love with him. Gatsby tries to convince Tom that Daisy loves Gatsby by stating how long the affair has been going

Gatsby pressures Daisy into telling Tom, her husband, that she has never loved him and that she is in love with Gatsby. Daisy reacts to this by feeling overwhelmed, she sees Gatsby as a man that is trying to use her and break up her marriage. Once she sees an argument brewing between Tom and Gatsby, she states ¨Even alone I can't say I never loved Tom, -- it wouldn't be true.¨ (Fitzgerald

Gatsby being idiotic and careless to reveal to tell Tom that he is having an affair with Daisy, his wife, is one of the most catastrophic and foolish decision Gatsby made. Another essential point is that Gatsby is delusional and a daydreamer who believes he can get everything he wants by reshaping it to his liking. In chapter 6 during a conversation with Nick and Gatsby, "You can't repeat the past," Gatsby replies, "Why of course you can"(110-6). Proving Gatsby being delusional and stubborn to believe he could reshape the past so that he could relight his relationship with Daisy, even if she married to Tom and also had a daughter. Gatsby being careless as well as delusional puts Tom over the edge because he feels threatened that some random bootlegger, know it all is trying to take away his wife from him.

“She never loved you, do you hear?” Tom was her husband, but Gatsby believes she never lost interest in him, and thinks she never loved Tom. Tom never truly showed that he loved Daisy so Gatsby has reason to believe his reasoning is true. He believes if he didnt take so long to get rich, then daisy would still be with him. “It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!”

Devotion and Misconstructions Love is complicated, messy, and often difficult to understand. Jay Gatsby did love Daisy Buchanan, but never for who she actually was. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, during various periods of their lives Gatsby’s love for Daisy was never true. Not the whirlwind romance in the first month they knew each other, not in the years they were apart when everything Gatsby did was for Daisy, and not when they found each other again when Gatsby was stuck in the past.

Interestingly, he doesn't seem so much bothered by the infidelity as by the fact that Gatsby is "Mr. Nobody from Nowhere. " Gatsby waits for Daisy to say her line, but she doesn't, so he tells Tom, "Daisy never loved you." Tom says that she does love him, and that in fact he loves her too, even though he's been banging everything that walks since they got married. Daisy tells Tom he's "Revolting" and asks how she could

(Fitzgerald 110). Gatsby tries to go around the truth by presenting his new illegally obtained wealth, in hopes of Daisy deciding to settle in with him but it isn't that simple. Gatsby can’t hide the fact he was always poor, and he even denies the fact that daisy has a child. His idealized version of the whole situation blinds him and creates obstacles for him to accomplishing his American dream. During the five years Gatsby was away from Daisy, he created a version of her and her future in his head.

Daisy also said: “ I never loved him” which is Tom “ I loved him once--- but I loved you too.” “Daisy is leaving you” said Gatsby “She’s not leaving me” said Tom Eventually Tom said “You two start on home,Daisy,” “ In Mr. Gatsby 's Car” As you can see, Tom actually really loved Daisy and so is Gatsby. But the way that Gatsby’s stealing other wife is just not right.

Once Daisy begins to see Gatsby on a regular basis, Gatsby begins to encourage Daisy to leave Tom and create a life with him. In the novel, Nick observes, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago.” Gatsby believes he can provide Daisy with a lavish and happy life that her unfaithful husband could never give

Gatsby truly believes that Daisy only loves him, and he can not stand the idea that she does not. During his fight with Tom over who Daisy really loves, he says, ““She never loved you, do you hear?” he crie[s]. “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!””(Fitzgerald 130).

“[Gatsby] put his hands in the coat pockets and turned back eagerly to the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight-watching over nothing” (Fitzgerald 153). It confirms that Gatsby will never truly get Daisy; she will never leave Tom for him. Since, Gatsby is blind to the fact that she does not love him the way he loves her, he believes that Daisy will leave Tom for him.

Gatsby was so obsessed with the past, and trying to recreate it, that it consumed him. His dream was to be with Daisy, and he tries everything in his power to recreate the love that was between them. Gatsby stated, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can” (117). This idea of him and Daisy being in love took control of his life because he could not let her go.