The Great Gatsby: Past Events Of A Character's Life

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The Great Gatsby Summer Reading Essay Past events of a character’s life can give the reader a solid idea of their identity, personality and whole meaning. It provides a reader with a backstory that they can use to make connections, make inferences, ask questions. The past of a character, Daisy Buchanan, in The Great Gatsby, is a solid example of how one’s past largely contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Fitzgerald uses Daisy’s past for the reader to later in the text, compare and contrast, and early on to get a picture of her wealthy and easy lifestyle. She was practically born into wealth and Gatsby was attracted to not only her but her lifestyle, as well. It was the lifestyle he’d always longed for and her enjoyed how she was highly desired by many men. Daisy’s easy upbringing basically foreshadowed her easy, careless life as an adult. Daisy’s younger life is almost an example of the life of aristocratic women in the twenties; carefree, although, limited, and normally controlled by a man. Men were the bread winners always in those times and the wives were to worry about nothing but taking …show more content…

Gatsby goes off to war expecting Daisy to wait for him but Daisy offs and married Tom, a wealthy man who her parents approve of and can take care of her. The reader expects Daisy to have never really loved Tom due to the infidelity and intense personality but the reader comes to learn that he wasn’t always so bad. Him and Daisy did share some beautiful memories. Although, Daisy’s desperately to keep up an aristocratic, classy image is what will always keep her from leaving Tom and pursuing anything real with Gatsby. Tom is that hard-working man, born into riches, that man Daisy’s parents would love for their daughter. No matter her true feelings, Daisy will always put her image before anything which contributes to the shallowness of all the wealthy characters in the

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