Coming from a rich family seems like a great thing. But you’re parents want you to marry someone who is also rich. Before WW I, i was very popular with the soldiers that we going to go into the war. There was one in particular that changed my life. Jay Gatsby, he did everything in his power to capture my heart. Which he did, we had a fun night before he left, I promise to wait for him.
Though,in 1919 I married Tom Buchanan. Whom gave me a beautiful little girl, named Pammy. Tom is an aristocrat soldier, he promised to give me a very rich lifestyle and he has my parents on his side. But, my heart belonged to Jay. While I am happy with my marriage, it changed me. Tom changed me, i’ve become careless and shallow. As well as making sardonic comments,
Jay Gatsby is a mysterious businessman from the nineteen twenties that is an ideal example of the American Dream. He falls in love with a young and vibrant woman by the name of Daisy Buchannan. Their admiration for each other enforces a luminous spark of determination upon themselves. This subsidizes their relationship under struggling circumstances, and changed their lives for the better. Daisy and Gatsby are the only two that truly prospered from their “American Dream” in this novel.
In life, we ask ourselves the question what we are? In addition, we also ask ourselves how our perspectives allow us to see this world? These questions are an opening idea’s, which requires the person answering it, to be fully aware of his or her life, and then have the ability to judge it without any personal bias. This is why, in the book that was and is in a sense is still talked about in class, The Great Gatsby, which is a book that follows a plethora of charters all being narrated by, Nick Caraway, a character of the book The Great Gatsby. Nick Caraway is the character in the book which judges and describes his and other character’s actions and virtues. Now we speak of a character whose name is Jay Gatsby or other whys known as James Gatz, which is one of the characters that Mr. Caraway, seems to be infatuated with from the start of the book. This character Jay Gatsby develops a perspective, which in his view seems to justify his actions by the way that he saw the world that he was living in. In this essay, I will explain why the ambitions of a person, can lead them to do things that are beyond there normal character.
In the Great Gatsby, we are faced with two extremely wealthy men, a beautiful wife, and a mistress. Jay Gatsby, a very mysterious man, who is extremely wealthy and well known for his parties, is very interesting as well as spontaneous. Tom Buchanan, a man made wealthy by being a professional polo player as well as having a gracious inheritance, is very bitter and somewhat cynical. Daisy, a beautiful young lady and the wife of Tom, is very light hearted but is also in love with Gatsby, almost as much as she loves Tom’s money.
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“In choosing Tom Buchanan over the absent Gatsby, Daisy has allowed her life to be shaped forever by the crude force of Tom’s money” (Dickstein 258). She decided that she needed money more than she needed love.
Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are very similar; they are both put in the position of being with Daisy. Gatsby tries to win her over while her husband, Tom, tries to turn her away from Jay Gatsby in order to have her for himself. However, despite the fact that they are both very wealthy, well settled and living very luxurious lives Daisy chooses to be with Tom over her long lost love; Gatsby, because she and he are better suited for e...
To begin with, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are both corrupt individuals. Tom Buchanan’s personality represents the higher social class of America in the 1920s. Notably, when Nick Carraway goes to visit the Buchanan family, Tom bluntly explains to Nick, “I’ve got a nice place here, showing off his opulent estate”(7). Tom is
Daisy Buchanan’s American Dream is to be filled with true happiness and love, but her unwillingness to take a risk reflects on how her American Dream is just an illusion. For instance, when she was pressured into choosing between Tom Buchanan or Jay Gatsby, she said “I did love you once - but I loved you too” (140). From what she is saying, this proves how unwilling she is to be with Gatsby. She was conflicted in this situation, but she proves that she did love Tom at some point in her life and will most likely pick him over Gatsby because knowing Daisy, her primary concern is her social class, wealth, and how her future will play out. Tom’s character, wealth, and social class was another reason why Daisy is unwilling to take a risk. Nick Carraway
2. Imagine if you were Daisy Buchanan. What would you do when you found out Tom had ‘ another woman’?
My father was a banker, and worked downtown. He made $100,000 a year, an assurance that his wife would never have to work. (Hypothetically of course, he’d never let her work, even if we were starving.) He lived in a big house in Cherry Creek, Colorado, and had 5 well-rounded, successful children. (Well, almost. I had a retarded younger sister who lived in a sanatorium upstate. Speaking about her was a strict taboo.) He had everything he could ever want, and was content with life. He couldn’t understand the obsession with war. War was not a concern for him. All my father was concerned with was raising his family, and running his business. He believed those were the essential aspects of life, not running off and shooting guns in foreign lands....
Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the rich couple, seem to have everything they could possibly want. Though their lives are full of anything you could imagine, they are unhappy and seek to change, Tom drifts on "forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game"(pg. 10) and reads "deep books with long words in them"(pg. 17) just so he has something to talk about. Even though Tom is married to Daisy he has an affair with Myrtle Wilson and has apartment with her in New York.. Daisy is an empty character, someone with hardly any convictions or desires. Even before her relationships with Tom or, Gatsby are seen, Daisy does nothing but sit around all day and wonder what to do with herself and her friend Jordan. She knows that Tom is having an affair, yet she doesn't leave him even when she hears about Gatsby loving her. Daisy lets Gatsby know that she too is in love with him but cant bring herself to tell Tom goodbye except when Gatsby forces her too. Even then, once Tom begs her to stay, even then Daisy forever leaves Gatsby for her old life of comfort. Daisy and Tom are perfect examples of wealth and prosperity, and the American Dream. Yet their lives are empty, and without purpose.
He comes from a wealthy family and is quick to use his money against others. Buchanan often changes locations to escape situations caused by his reckless behavior. Abusive, masculine, and arrogant, Tom boasts about his power over others. Comments suggesting his mistrust of Daisy fly from his lips, but he has an ongoing affair with Myrtle Wilson. A party leaves her with a broken nose because Buchanan, thinking he is superior, punches her in the face. He barks contemptuous remarks toward those of other races. Furthermore, Buchanan, ”a brute of a man“, delights in dominating others (Fitzgerald 7). Boisterous and pompous, he parades Myrtle around the city, right in front of her husband, and speaks to her on the phone in front of his wife and guests. Later, he blames Gatsby for the tryst with her, and Wilson shoots Jay and himself. Tom’s personality fits all the mentioned traits in the article. As elucidated, these characteristics are harmful to society because individuals like Gatsby and the Wilsons end up dead due to Tom’s negligence. Nevertheless, Tom sheds a tear when his girlfriend dies, and he becomes increasingly nervous when he finds Gatsby and Daisy in love. Moving on, he masks his anxiety with snide commentary and egotism. Wealth and deceit buy freedom, so this egregious man continues an impulsive cycle that repeatedly results in
As I sit in my cozy, victorian home located Minnesota, I can not help but reminisce the life of one of my greatest friends, Mr. Jay Gatsby. It has been two years since his funeral. I often wonder why his life was taken so soon; why I deserve to find love with my wife, Sarah, and he was killed by loving too much. I had always wished Gatsby and Daisy would have found the love they deserved. Now, Gatsby is dead and Daisy is in an emotionally abusive and loveless marriage with her cheating husband, Tom Buchanan.
While the Buchanans continue to live together, Daisy benefits from the money. With the description of their house, a white palace with windows reflecting gold, it seems that Tom and Daisy want to fool people into thinking that their relationship epitomizes perfection and purity, but in reality, the only support of their relationship develops from the money. The money acts as a frame, holding everything together because Daisy acknowledges Tom’s affair but does not want to ...
Gatsby hasn’t just lost his morals but also his sense of family because he has created such an elaborate illusion. Catherine scrutinizes the couples of the story, "Neither of them can stand the person they're married to" (Fitzgerald pg 37). The marriage had become very weak when Daisy "had told [Gatsby] that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded" (Fitzgerald, pg 125). More than his morals, Gatsby loses all sense of family, his wealth has metaphorically become it. He relies on his money rather than a family to bring comfort and security to his life. Gatsby takes advantage of his wealth to replace his deteriorated spirit and emotions. As a result of shallow family relationships, all love for that matter becomes based on social status.