The Great Gatsby Monologue Analysis

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“I was driving, Tom! Not Gatsby… I killed her! ”, she cries whilst anxiously pacing around with her fingers fumbling together.
I have never seen Daisy the way she is at this moment, so vulnerable and desperate for someone to take her out of this nightmare. Daisy needs me now more than ever…And I have her wrapped around my little finger.
“Oh Daisy, my darling Daisy”, I say to her with my arms open waiting for her to fall in to my embrace. She rests her head on to my shoulder as I pull her tighter against my body. Daisy’s soft blonde hair sweeps against my cheek. The feeling pulls me back to the first time we held each other this way. I knew when she held me then that she loved me, but the way she is holding me now wasn’t love, she needs me to save her. Daisy didn’t have to pretend, I know I’m the only one who can give her the life she wants.
“Everything will be fine, Daisy!” I say looking down at her shining teary blue eyes. “You didn’t kill her dear, Gatsby did!”, as those words depart my lips, I can …show more content…

“I don’t want to go to jail” she murmurs as her legs began to shake causing her to collapse to the floor. I race over to pull her rag dolled body off of the ground. She finally crawls in to my embrace as I lift her up to sit on the dinning chair. Our eyes meet for the first time tonight as I place my hand on hers. “Everything will be alright Daisy, we will talk to the Sheriff tomorrow and you can make a statement that Gatsby was the one who was driving his car.” I calmly stroke her hand as I say those assuring words. “Alright then”, she says in her croaky voice as she forces an unpleasant smile. The sound of those words was music to my ears, celebrating my achievement in winning against Gatsby. I suppose he wasn’t much of a competition anyways, Daisy wouldn’t have left me for him. I let out a silent chuckle as the thought of Gatsby stealing my wife was rather

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