... in great detail. Jay Gatsby's dream and hope is to win Daisy back, as Gatsby seems to think that she is the perfect girl for him. Daisy appears to be a rich, beautiful girl who has a perfect life, but in reality all she cares about is money. Gatsby also appears to be rich and charming. However, ... is ruined by the hunt for wealth and materialism. First, Gatsby's dream and hope is to win Daisy back, as Daisy appears to Gatsby as the perfect girl for him, so he is blindly in love with her. He even compares her to money when he says, "Her voice is full of money" (The ... to repeat the pas...

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... who hide from reality and put-on an affectation as airheads; which is what Daisy's character is. This is evident when she says, "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she's a fool – that's the best thing a girl can ever be in this world, a beautiful little fool" (22). Regardless of her cheerful character, Daisy is usually described in the colour white; a colour ... happiness. "'Go ahead,' answered Daisy genially, 'and if you want to take down addresses here's my little gold pencil. 'She Looked around after a moment and told me the girl was 'common but pretty', and I knew that exc...

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... Davis). The author and his character both attended a prestigious university but failed to graduate, then enlisted in the army, where they each met their "golden girl" (Davis). Although both Gatsby and Fitzgerald achieved financial success, the motivation for acquiring their fortune was their love for a woman who represented wealth. In ... made promises that they did not keep. Davis indicates this similarity in his article and writes, "They both meet a southern girl who requires a man of means and substance and both set out to become that for her. Both man and character achieve that succe...

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... meet with Ginevra after a twenty-year absence, 2 he proclaimed to his daughter, with mixed feelings of regret and nostalgia: "She was the first girl I ever loved and have faithfully avoided seeing her up to this moment to keep the illusion perfect, because she ended up by throwing me over ... true love, she certainly was not his last. In July 1918, while stationed in Montgomery, Alabama with the military, Scott met a gracious, soft-voiced girl named Zelda Sayre at a country club dance. Scott recalled that night that, "she let her long hair hang down loose and wore a frilly dress ... Zel...

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... a remarkable exception to this pattern. His hope was not forged as a result of possessions and luxuries. His hope was shaped by love; aspirations of achieving his desires of earning one girl's affection. Through each day, it was this that kept Gatsby trying gallantly, although nonetheless futilely, to reach his goal; it was this that dictated who Gatsby was. "Gatsby believed ... most inconvenience possible. It undoubtedly seems this way when we look at Gatsby's situation with Daisy. He could've had any girl in the world: they would be easily swooned by his wealth alone. However, Gatsby ...

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... presence did not grace it. Although she has a beautiful exterior her inner soul is draped with grief and suffocated by her selfishness. She deceives people into believing she's a sweet, innocent girl, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Color plays a major part of the symbolism in the novel. Ironically, Daisy is associated with the color white. In a conversation between Tom ... and Gatsby it's discussed that daisy seems to live, "High in a white palace." (Pg. 127) This is symbolic because it shows how this upper-class girl never had to work a day in her life. The white represen...

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... as Daisy, pushed morality aside in the purist of personal gain. One thing that really caught me was when she said she hoped her little girl would be "a pretty little fool". She wanted her little girl not to have strong opinions, to go with the flow of the social elite, and to be ignorant to what she really wants and rather do ... what society tells her she wants. It is a girl like this who passes up true love, allows her husband to cheat on her, and goes only where the money is. Sadly not only does she want this type of ... ...

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... to fix everything just the way it was before . She"ll see" (117). This statement by Jay Gatsby optimizes his drive and desire to recapture the love of his dream girl. After 5 years away from his darling Daisy Fay, a stunning, privileged woman, Gatsby is brought back to her in The Great Gatsby. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the tale of Gatsby ... 's return from war to the girl he left behind and the effects of his devotion to return to the way things were before. A simple dream of love began when a youthful Jay Gatsby met a young blonde who ... Tom's back and connected as they h...

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... ;making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand"[Fitzgerald 37]. When Myrtle, his mistress, gets startled at the fact that she is just a worthless girl to Tom, she rants about Daisy creating a vast scene with a fierce conclusion and a broken nose. He hits a woman like it is nothing and does not think twice about it, showing ... wasn't ready to raise a daughter because she is immature herself. In respect to her daughter, she says: " 'And I hope she'll be a fool – That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool "' (Fitzgerald ...

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... you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry" (105). Alongside, when Tom left the dining table to take a call, Jordan quickly identified "that that's Tom's girl on the telephone" (92). Myrtle knows that her husband, George Wilson, is a poor man that fills up gas for customers and lives in a trashy place. Myrtle and Tom's relationship ... and show his Oxford manners to everyone. At one of Gatsby's parties, Daisy and Tom arrive for the first time and are amazed of all the exciting entertainment. Daisy spots a girl that is "common but pretty" (42) and tells Tom, "if you want to take...

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... Gatsby's dream exists on borrowed time. Fitzgerald perfectly understood the inadequacy of Gatsby's romantic view of wealth. At a young age he met and fell in love with Ginevra King, a Chicago girl who enjoyed the wealth and social position to which Fitzgerald was always drawn. After being rejected by Ginevra because of his lower social standing, Fitzgerald came away with a sense of ... social inadequacy, a deep hurt, and a longing for the girl beyond attainment. This disappointment grew into distrust and envy of the American rich and their lifestyle. These personal feelings are expresse...

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... People- 70). After that she officially broke off the relationship (Lehan "Careless People- 70). Fitzgerald came away from Ginevra with a sense of social inadequacy, a deep hurt, and a longing for the girl " beyond attainment- (Lehan "Careless People- 71). Fitzgerald ties Ginevra in with the character of Daisy and many other women in his novels. Kenneth Eble is quoted as saying, "the details ... , rhyme with his name, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Fay and Ella Kay- (qtd. in Bruce Stark 61). A daisy like Daisy Fay is white on the outside; her clothing, white roadster, white girl hood, and yellow on th...

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... be a part of it. She understood that Daisy's popularity was not based solely on her good looks, but rather on what her family's money made her to be: a beautiful rich girl. However, to be a part of that society one has to sacrifice certain things - moral values and feelings. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald shows the reader that Jordan Baker succeeded at that ... money---that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals" song of it . High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl ." (127). Since Daisy never had to strive for anything in...

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... she is jaded from her excessive lifestyle and subsequently striped of a moral conscience. When notified of her daughter's birth, Daisy states: "All right, I"m glad it's a girl. And I hope she"ll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool (21)." From this passage it is inferred that Daisy cares not for character but for status. She ... ...

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... it reveals a soft spot in the great man's life. This is an important part due to the fact that we see Gatsby as a filthy rich guy, that can have any girl he wants, but yet he is hooked on a married woman. We also find out what the green light on the other side of the harbor is, showing that Gatsby is ... real name was James Gatz. He was born to a North Dakota farmer and was sent to a small Lutheran school called St. Olaf College. One day, when he was on Little Girl Bay, he saw the yacht of millionaire Dan Cody in danger of being broken up by a storm, and rowed out to warn him. Cody was ...

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... " lives Tom Buchanan's mistress...Myrtyle. Myrtyle and her husband live at her husbands place of work...a mechanic's garage.....Tom Buchanan previously made great efforts to get Nick to "see his girl." Wilson is interested in purchasing Toms car....There home is rather drab and does not seem to be fitting to a person as extravagant as Myrtyle...Myrtyle even dresses extravengently in ... a letter and some pearls from the guests which she does not wish to adorn. However after their honeymoon, all seems fine and soon after they arrive back, Daisy has a baby girl. The family then traveled Eu...

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... because she is a compulsive liar. Gatsby: I think he is a good man and he also fights for what he wants, I admire him for that, because most men don't fight for the girl they want and love anymore. * Detailed Description: The biggest impression someone and their house has ever left on me has to be my friend Rhia. Their house is so dirty ... think Nick is a little bit more of an individual than I did in the first chapter. Differences: One scene is when Nick and Jordan are sitting down at a table with a drunken girl and man about Nick's age. When Gatsby had shown his face at the table. An...

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... through life, not really feeling or understanding anything. She is extremely superficial in her thinking. Talking to Nick she says "I hope she'll be a fool "that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool-[Pg 22], when referring to her daughter, this gives the reader an insight into the way she thinks about society. She is ... is Daisy. He is consumed by this obsession to attain and have Daisy, but on the way he forgets that she cannot divorce Tom, that she is no longer the girl he loved many years ago and that she has changed to the extent that she would not ...

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... was in the 45th Infantry and Gatsby was said to be in the Seventh Infantry. Both are said to be Lieutenants of their Division. During the war Fitzgerald also met a girl with whom he fell in love with. Her name was Zelda Sayre. She had a reputation for being wild, and like Daisy she too had many suitors. Shortly after falling in ... of their involvement in the war they were shipped out and lost their "true" love. They are both the "poor boy" who must somehow reach success to win back the girl of their dreams. In the end Fitzgerald fails to keep Zelda by his side. Many say this is portray...

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... names of Jordan and Nick who they are so openly speaking with."Do you come to these parties often?' inquired Jordan of the girl beside her."˜ The last one was the one I met you at, answered the girl in an alert, confident voice. She turned to her companion: Wasn't it for you Lucille?' It was for Lucille too. I like to come ... ...

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... already won him over effortlessly. Therefore leading him to describe her as "the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in ithigh in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl" (120). She is the one. Except, he doesn't have her. What he does have is money, and money has always been something in his life. Gatsby has always been ... ...

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... as a more approachable, harmless man. Jordan Baker recounts how one morning in 1917 she met Daisy and an unknown admirer, a military officer, who watched Daisy "in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at" (75). By looking at Daisy in this loving, admirable way, Jay reveals his tender and affectionate personality. Not to mention, Tom and Jay's social aspects ... ...

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... the negatives of an unwavering hope in love rather than a mantra or belief as shown in the previous stories. Jay Gatsby struggles the entire story with an incredible love for a girl named Daisy, with whom he had once been in love. Nick points out the hope that Jay has for Daisy when he cites his extraordinary efforts by saying, "The ... ...

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... of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbal's of it high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl" (127). For Gatsby, Daisy epitomizes his desired lifestyle of wealth. The fact that Daisy has wanted nothing in her life is conveyed through her voice. Nick becomes aware of ... ...

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... a soul who wasn't lost like the others, he wasn't a fool lost for money, but lost for love. Jay Gatsby, a lower class gentleman has his thoughts and intentions bewildered by the girl he thought was the one. Gatsby didn't quite cleanse the fact that this new generation post war was a brand new, set of people. Daisy had moved on, leaving Gatsby behind ... ...

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