Women In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In the end, their destruction of character differed due to the fact that Gatsby’s wish to be with Daisy abolished his happy persona, whereas Lucas’ dream to keep his business strong extinguished his aura immorally because of his illegal ways. Gatsby was emotionally destroyed because of his greatest and final ambition was to win Daisy’s heart once again. As he went through the process of attaining her love and goal to marry her, he was put through events that destructed him emotionally. While Gatsby and Tom fight for Daisy’s love, she cries to Gatsby, “Oh, you want too much! … I love you now – isn’t that enough?

Daisy soon takes control over their relationship. In the quote, Gatsby waits for an approving look from Dai... ... middle of paper ... ... cannot keep it because they are incapable of providing all the essential things a woman needs in life, money, security, and masculinity; however, only one man can provide it, Tom. In Fitzgerald’s view, the only way to win a girl’s love and to keep it is through money. Fitzgerald shows the reader that together, love and money are the key to obtaining a satisfying relationship.The idea that people choose to be in a relationship for the money is sickening. Those who choose this way of life care about popularity and use rich and glory to be loved.

As we read Daisy talking to Jay on page 132: “I love you now — isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once — but I loved you too.” A little later in the book Tom describes Jay’s illegal past and that scares Daisy to choose Tom and his money over the love of her life. So we can see that again the greed for money left Daisy without her true happiness the one

Clarrisan Vaughan spent so much time planning for a party that Richard did not want to attend. It is obvious that the women will keep themselves unhappy just to satisfy the needs of the men they are involved with. The only person who went against the grain was Laura Brown when she left her son . According to Ebert, Roger "Virginia and Leonard Woolf loved each other, Clarrisan treasures both of her lovers. But for the two in the movie who cannot love, The price is devastating"(3).The effect is shown in how Richie, the little boy became Richard, the man that finally committed suicide to save himself from aids.

She is manipulating Gatsby throughout the whole novel until he ... ... middle of paper ... ... her wealth as well as appearance, She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except for me. (130) Despite her affection for Gatsby, Daisy still chooses to stay with Tom because of Gatsby’s shameful past and his connection to bootlegging and crimes, even though she’s also aware of Tom’s affair, which implies her lack of intellectualism. Tom and Daisy don’t care enough about their relationship emotionally to be bothered by indefinites, which establishes the lack of values they embody. Daisy is presented in a manner where she lacks morality and proceeds without conscience; she is selfish and doesn’t value others.

That is why Tom has a gruesome affair with his undeserved mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Even though Daisy knows Tom does not give her the respect she deserves, she stays with him because she will never have the drive or courage to divorce him. In addition, Daisy does not want to divorce Tom because this was an unspeakable act of the time era. Daisy Buchanan knew that people would murmur and whisper about the situation if something did come about, as in a divorce (Baker, C.). According to Charles Baker, “[Daisy] seems to be held in her marriage by sheer laziness, not love, as if remaining in a comfortable and familiar position, regardless of Tom’s brutish behavior and infidelities, is preferable to exerting the energy it would take to leave it” (Baker, C.).

Curley’s wife is in a failed marriage, she often whines and tells everyone around that her husband is a brutish man; She also often says that she is bored with her life. Curley 's wife need for excitement was her downfall, she threatens to have the black stable worker lynched if he complains about her to the boss. Her constant flirting with Lennie seals her unfortunate fate. John Steinbeck world is no place for

Neither one are really satisfied with what they have, and are always longing for more. This incomplete and lonely feeling lead them both to cheat on their husbands in torrid affairs. Daisy Buchanan is married to Tom Buchanan who is an arrogant and aggressive man. Readers are sympathetic towards Daisy because Tom is having an affair right under Daisy’s nose. Daisy knows what her husband is doing, but she still stays with him for the fact that they have a daughter together and for his wealth.

Gatsby says to Tom in the hotel suit, "Your wife doesn 't love you. She 's never loved you. She loves me... She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart, she never loved anyone but me! (Fitzgerald 137)" At this point time Gatsby is thinking completely delusional thoughts about how Daisy has always been his, she was just using Tom as a filler until she could be with him, but what Gatsby wasn 't expecting was that Daisy truly loves Tom more than she loves him.

Estella also gets married to a man that loves her, Bently Drummle, but does not return his love, and chooses to marry for profits only. Love plays a large part in this story, binding some of the characters together, and ruining other’s relationships. When Pip was very young, he was confused at what love should really be. It is no surprise that Pip has a very odd point of view about women at this point in the story. He’s met so many harsh women, he must think at his young age, that most women are like that.