Gatsby loves Daisy because she is beautiful, cultured, and represents the kind of life he wants for himself. However, as the book reveals, he does not really know her. He does not understand her hopes or dreams. He shows no interest in learning about her fears, her insecurities, or her past experiences.
To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota and that first attracted him to her.
Gatsby fell in love with Daisy and the wealth she represents, and she with him (though apparently not to the same excessive extent), but he had to leave for the war and by the time he returned to the US in 1919, Daisy has married Tom Buchanan.
Even though she was still in love with Gatsby, Daisy most likely married Tom because she knew he could provide her with more material comforts.
He clearly loves her with all his heart, moreover, he is obsessed with Daisy and unable to imagine his life without her in it. Daisy's real feelings remain confused and unclear. But if we think a bit more about it, we'll see the other side of Gatsby and Daisy relationship. He is obsessed with her, he idolizes her.
Their love affair makes Gatsby optimistic that Daisy is his true love, but he really only sees and loves an idealized version of her that he has carried for years. In the end, Daisy chooses to stay with her husband even when knowing he had also had an affair.
Daisy accepts her objectification and abandonment it causes, and doesn't wish a better life for her child. Gatsby feeds into this objectification, seeing Daisy as a thing to be acquired so his life will be complete.
Daisy, like her husband, has an affair but, she cheats on Tom with Gatsby. She slowly starts to lose faith in humanity and starts to see the world as a very bad place. She wishes for her daughter to not see the world for what it is.
Daisy is a beautiful fool, she knows about Tom's affair, but doesn't say anything just so to keep that image of an ideal happy family. Daisy thought she had love when she married Tom, but in reality it was for his money.
Daisy chose to marry Tom over Gatsby because Tom was wealthier and more powerful than Gatsby. Gatsby grew up poor and never had money as Tom did. Daisy promised he would wait for Gatsby while he went to war, but she knew her mother would never let her marry a poor man.
This is at the very end of the novel. Of the late Gatsby, Tom says, “That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust in your eyes just like he did in Daisy's….” And that's why it matters that Nick is gay and in love with Gatsby: because Tom's assessment is spot-on, but Nick will never admit it.
Daisy Buchannan is made to represent the lack of virtue and morality that was present during the 1920s. She is the absolute center of Gatsby's world right up to his death, but she is shown to be uncaring and fickle throughout the novel.
Daisy isn't really talking about—or weeping over—the shirts from England. Her strong emotional reaction comes from the excitement of Gatsby having the proper wealth, and perhaps remorse over the complexity of the situation; he is finally a man she could marry, but she is already wed to Tom.
Another example of sexism is shown in the relationship between Daisy Buchannan and Jay Gatsby. Although Gatsby loves her, he believes Daisy to be materialistic and thinks that his massive wealth will lead her to leave her husband in order to be with him.
Daisy cries because she has never seen such beautiful shirts, and their appearance makes her emotional. The scene solidifies her character and her treatment of Gatsby. She is vain and self-serving, only concerned with material goods.
The main problem of the novel is the fight for Daisy's heart. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, and their love is fading away. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, while later on Daisy is having an affair also with Jay Gatsby. The Buchanans come from old money, while Gatsby comes from new money.
In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is obsessed with Daisy Buchanan, he is clinging to the past, desperately trying to relive the romance of his youth. His obsession is demonstrated on multiple occasions throughout the novel.
Gatsby tells Nicks about the magical past that he wants to recreate. It was encapsulated in the moment of Gatsby and Daisy's first kiss. As soon as Gatsby kissed Daisy, all of his fantasies about himself and his future fixated solely on her.
Daisy shows a certain amount of affection for Gatsby throughout the book, proving that she had to have felt certain amount of agony over his death.
The love he thought he had for Daisy was his imagination and the reality he had constantly pictured in his head. She had evolved into a different person over the years and was not what he had expected. He is not truly ready to accept that fact that Daisy moved on and is living a different life that is not with him.
(Which, of course, is part of the point of the novel.) And perhaps Daisy realizes that Gatsby's love is as fake as his name. At the end, she's left with a man who thinks too much of her and a man who thinks too little of her. She chooses the latter, since she can't measure up to the former.
Why is Daisy's daughter a symbol? She is a symbol of time passing and things changing. What is the Vally of Ashes?
Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby conveys to the reader the idea of corruption through illustrating people's lust for parties, their obsession to be wealthy, the difference between people who are newly rich and those who inherited their money on one hand, and the class contrast between the upper class and the lower class.
First, Luhrmann made the curious decision to begin the story with Nick Carraway (our first-person narrator played by Tobey Maguire) writing in a patient's journal after ending up in a mental hospital due to “morbid alcoholism, fits of anger, insomnia.” According to Mike Hogan's (Executive Arts and Entertainment Editor ...
He sees both the extraordinary quality of hope that Gatsby possesses and his idealistic dream of loving Daisy in a perfect world. Though Nick recognizes Gatsby's flaws the first time he meets him, he cannot help but admire Gatsby's brilliant smile, his romantic idealization of Daisy, and his yearning for the future.