Monday, January 23, 2012
Gatsby and Daisy
At this point in The Great Gatsby, we don't know yet if Gatsby and Daisy will end up together. We have been led to believe that Gatsby is more in love with the idea of Daisy than Daisy herself. Also on page 110, Nick describes Gatsby by saying, "He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy". It seems as if Gatsby is stuck in the past and cannot see his present situation for how it really is. He wants to go back to the time where his idea of his former self falls in love with his idea of Daisy. But many things have changed in five years, so how do you think Gatsby and Daisy's relationship will turn out based on this type of thinking?
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I think that they won't end up together. Both of them have changed a lot since they last saw each other. Daisy is married to Tom and has a baby and Gatsby fought in the war. Even if Daisy does leave Tom and they have a change to be together Gatsby won't be able to recreate the past. They could still be happy together but their feelings might have changed based on what they have been through. Neither of them are the same as they were 5 years ago. Though Gatsby wants the past Daisy she may not be their anymore so he either needs to love the new Daisy or leave and remember her as she was in the past.
ReplyDeleteI think that they will try to be together but I do not think that it will work out. It is clear that Daisy does have feelings for Gatsby and Gatsby has very strong feelings for Daisy. I could see it working out because Daisy is in an unhappy marriage and does not seem to care that Tom is cheating on her. I think that this will eventually lead Daisy to Gatsby. I also think that they will be together because as we learned When Gatsby perceives himself in a certain way he has a lot of drive and achieves his goals. In this case I can see Daisy being one of his goals. I do not think that there relationship will work out because you can not relieve the past so I think Gatsbys expectations of what his relationship with Daisy will not be the same as it once was.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that they will end up together either because now that Tom has lost his mistress, I think that he will try everything to keep Daisy. Also, after I read the last scene in chapter 7, I couldn't help thinking that something was going ton between Daisy and Tom that we don;t know about, especially when Nick says "There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together".
ReplyDeleteI do not think Daisy and Gatsby will end up together. Just as Lauren said, too much has changed in the five years that they haven't seen each other. On page 109, Gatsby says ""And she doesn't understand," he said. "She used to be able to understand. We'd sit and talk for hours-"" This line shows how Gatsby has realized that Daisy's life has moved on without him. She is no longer the same Daisy that he fell in love with. On the following page, Gatsby tells Nick how he will somehow revive his past with Daisy so they can be together again. I don't think they will be able to go back to how they were five years ago. It seems as though Gatsby's purpose of life has become to be with Daisy. So I wonder, when he realizes that Daisy has changed so much that she is too different to be with him, what will be his purpose?
ReplyDeleteI also agree that Gatsby and Daisy will not be together in the end. Even though they will try to make it work, they still won't be together in the end. Daisy and Gatsby are two different people now. I feel that Daisy know she can get any guy and she uses that toward her advantage. Daisy is not obsessed with Gatsby like Gastsy is with her. Since they were seperated when they were younger, Gatsby has fantized about being with Daisy and even buys a house right across the bay from her house. He can see everyhing that she is doing and shows he really is obsessed with her. But when they meet, Gatsby realizes this relationship is a little more complicated than he orginally thought. Daisy has Tom now and a baby. I dont think he loves the new Daisy but he loved the old Daisy. And Gatsby just wants everything to be the way it was. But the question is: does Daisy??
ReplyDeleteBoth Daisy and Gatsby have evolved and changed since they first met each other 5 years ago. I don't think either one of them will be able to go back to what they used to be, so their relationship won't end up working. Even though Gatsby believes that Daisy is the one who changed as Jayme said, he has as well. If there is any hope for their relationship working out they just need to accept each other for who they are now, and fall in love all over again. There is no need to hold onto the past when they could create a bright future.
ReplyDeleteI think that if Gatsby and Daisy do end up together it will not be a real relationship based on love but will be a relationship based on fake ideas and made up beliefs of the other person. I also believe it will be a relationship of not true love but of material things and money. I do not believe that if Daisy and Gatsby ever are together again that they will understand each other because over 5 years a lot of things happen and many changes occur with people. People change and if they want things to be as they were, that will never happen and things will never be the same and the way they see each other can never go back to the way it was.
ReplyDeleteNow that we have made it to the end of the book, we see that Gatsby and Daisy did not end up together, as most of us had predicted; Gatsby is actually dead. I think the simple facts that Daisy didn't attend his funeral, didn't make any attempts at contacting Nick, and didn't even bother to stay in Long Island at the time, prove the shallowness of their relationship. As we have discussed numerous times in class, they seemed to simply be "in love" with the idea of one another. As hard as he tried, Gatsby could never revert Daisy's feelings for him back into the form he recognized, from years before.
ReplyDeleteat the end of the book, gatsby and daisy don't end up together, which was very predictable. Gatsby's way of thinking was irrational as he was convinced that he and Daisy could live in the past. as oliver said, Gatsby seemed to be more in love with the idea of Daisy, who seems to represent the american dream. Maybe Gatsby and daisy's fate was a metaphor for the unattainability of the american dream?
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