Daisy Fay In The Great Gatsby

In the novel, “The Great Gatsby”, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays a scene in which the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is trying to recreate his troubled past. Throughout the piece, Gatsby’s character is questioned in ways as if he was an actual Oxford man, and whether or not he was a German spy or an American war hero. In this work the protagonist, Jay Gatsby fulfils his destiny to have a second chance at his past.
In the novel, Jay Gatsby tries desperately to recreate the past in hopes to right all his past wrongs. Throughout the piece the reader learns of a Mr. Dan Cody who shows to be Gatsby’s late best friend and mentor. When Gatsby’s good friend Nick Carraway narrates, “When he saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor over the insidious

67). Despite all the controversy surrounding Gatsby’s past, everything seems to be confirmed, and Nick is led to believe that Gatsby is telling the truth. Among all this reluctance, the most important aspect is Daisy Fay. Daisy was a beautiful eighteen year old woman from Louisville, and at the time her and Gatsby met, he was just a young officer from Camp Taylor. At Gatsby’s request one day that he and Nick ventured into town, Nick later met Jordan for tea to unknowingly discuss Gatsby and Daisy’s past affairs. When she describes to Nick how engrossed in each other they were, she says, “‘the officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time… His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didn’t lay eyes on him again for over four years- even after I’d met him on Long Island I didn’t realize it was the same man.’” (Fitzgerald p. 75). When describing the love they had for each other, she tells the reader how entranced he was in her voice that he did not even notice Jordan’s presence. Portraying Gatsby as obsessed with Daisy, Fitzgerald sets the scene for the inevitable affliction. Being a mere officer in the American army, Gatsby has

On the way to New York one day, Gatsby describes his time in the war after Daisy left him at the train station. He says, “Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.” (Fitzgerald p. 66). When Gatsby exposes this information to Nick, he is appalled that Gatsby would take his own life for this girl. Although, we do not realize that Daisy is all he has in this world of despair. Since Gatsby survived the horrors of war, he believes that God kept him on the world for a reason. That reason being that he has to reunite himself with his old love. Later this day, Gatsby makes a large request of Nick to invite his cousin, Daisy, over for tea one day, and Being Nick’s neighbor, Gatsby will innocently walk over to say hello to his good friend and he and Daisy will be reunited, the way it should have been in the beginning. After waiting impatiently for Daisy to arrive, Gatsby gives up on his hopes in fear that she is not coming, and as soon as he gets up, Daisy’s car pulls into the driveway. When Nick and Daisy walk into the house together, Nick narrates, “To my overwhelming surprise, the living room was deserted. ‘Well, that’s funny,’ I exclaimed. ‘What’s funny?’ She turned her head as