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The Great Gatsby: Daisy's Love


In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the character of Daisy
Buchanan has many instances where her life and love of herself, money, and
materialism come into play. Daisy is constantly portrayed as someone who is only
happy when things are being given to her and circumstances are going as she has
planned them. Because of this, Daisy seems to be the character that turns
Fitzgerald's story from a tale of wayward love to a saga of unhappy lives.
Fitzgerald portrays Daisy as a "doomed" character from the very
beginning of the novel. She seems concerned only of her own stability and is
sometimes not ready to go though what she feels she must do to continue the life
that she has grown to know. She tells that she only married Tom Buchanan for the
security he offered and love had little to do with the issue. Before her wedding,
Jordan Baker finds Daisy in her hotel room,

"groping around in the waste-basket she
had with her on the bed and pull[ing]......

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