The Great Gatsby Daisy's Legacy

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about a new money man, Jay Gatsby, and his pursuit of acceptance into the upper class as well as to gain the love of Daisy. Daisy Buchanan is the cousin of the Nick and married to Tom Buchanan and she is one of Gatsby’s old friends. As a result of Gatsby’s past being so materialistic and goal oriented, he is unable to keep relationships, causing him to objectify his “love”, Daisy. He is a new money man whose money has come to him recently. As opposed to the Buchanans, who are old money and where they have a family legacy of being rich. In this society of West and East Egg, two peninsulas of Long Island, New York, legacy comes out to mean everything. Legacy essentially determines whether

The recurring theme in all of his friendships is that Gatsby always gets some sort of personal gain out of the friendship. Gatsby is only friends with Nick because he is Daisy’s cousin, so that is his portal to her. He even has Jordan ask Nick "if you'll invite Daisy to your house...and then let him come over"(63). This puts Nick in an awkward situation, does he invite Daisy, his engaged cousin over to fulfill Gatsby's dream of meeting, or does he turn Gatsby down and save his cousin the pain. Gatsby only has one genuine relationship, with Dan Cody. Even though Gatsby still gets something out of this relationship, Cody is more of an inspiration for Gatsby than someone for Gatsby to use and take advantage of. Gatsby looked up to Cody so much that Nick says “I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby’s bedroom”(100). This indicates the importance of Cody to Gatsby because his bedroom is the most simple room in the house. Unfortunately for Gatsby, when Dan died, he was supposed to leave twenty-five thousand for Gatsby, but “what remained of the millions went intact to Ella

Gatsby is a very goal oriented man so “he could hardly fail to grasp it”(180), unfortunately “he did not know that it was already behind him”(180). His goal is to have Daisy as his wife and his strategy is to devote everything he will ever do to Daisy. He thinks this is love but it is certainly obsession. He becomes so obsessed that he objectifies her by thinking she's just another thing he has to obtain and call his own. Gatsby shows his obsession for Daisy when he tries to degrade Tom by saying, “your wife doesn't love you… she's never loved you. She loves me”(130). Gatsby is so obsessed that he finds it necessary to emasculate Tom by putting himself on a pedestal and saying that Tom’s own wife has never loved him. His obsession eventually leads to objectification. Gatsby says “oh you want to much”(132), which is ironic because Gatsby has the problem of being materialistic and he then says that Daisy wants to