I wouldn't say he is obsessed with her. Just deeply in love. Gatsby believes that Daisy deserves better then Tom because Tom is ignorant and cheats on Daisy. Daisy loves Gatsby, but I don't think she is in love with him as much as he is in love with her. But at the same time Gatsby can always just be in love with her because she’s high society.
The Great Gatsby, was written by F. Scott Fitzergerald. This book is about a man named Jay Gatsby, who is in love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. The characters in this book are all superficial. They’re all cheaters and are denying something that’s wrong in their life. The superficial nature of Daisy is that she’s pretending she’s in a happy marriage with Tom, when she’s not.
Tom is portrayed in an extremely negative light throughout the novel; is this fair? Tom and Gatsby are each others love rivals in the book, they both vie for Tom’s wife Daisy whom Gatsby met before Tom and fell in mutual love with. However since Gatsby went to war, Daisy married Tom and it is clear that they have or had strong feelings for one another despite Toms extramarital affair and Daisy’s. The actions of the book show the moral difference between Gatsby and Tom, Tom is portrayed in a negative light, for an example bringing up the racist book by Goddard (Though this may have been more acceptable in the 1920’s) and being very open about his affair with Myrtle. Gatsby however is shown more positively even though he represents everything that Nick, our narrator, is not.
Daisy, on East Egg does not desire money and has social standing. Gatsby only desires money in order to win Daisy but lacks social standing. While he lives on West Egg, he does so only in order to view his dream, Daisy, on East Egg. In fact, Gatsby’s father tells Nick that “Jimmy always liked it better down East” (9:176). Daisy, while she may love Gatsby, loves social standing more and so she remains on East Egg in a loveless relationship.
They might be corrupt in different ways but both have almost the same characteristics. To begin with, both Daisy and Tom have their own affairs during the story which are different in certain ways. Daisy is involved in an affair with Gatsby but also loves Tom at the same time. This creates confusion at certain times during the novel. At one point she understands that she can only be with one.
For example he lets people that are complete strangers to him attend his parties. Gatsby resides in West Egg which contains people who have “New money”. Also unlike Tom He is a loyal, caring and good hearted man and he wants Daisy for True love and he is willing to do whatever it takes. Gatsby cares for Daisy more than Tom ever will but unfortunately Daisy still chooses Tom. Gatsby cried to Daisy “Can’t repeat the past?...
An example of indecency was Gatsby’s memories and moments with Daisy. Back then, as he remembered and as Nick recalled, Gatsby was poor, working hard but drafted into the army for World War I; but as the departure prolonged, their love dissipated due to financial crisises. Naturally, Daisy married a rich man, Tom Buchanan but began to regret such marriage when Gatsby returned with popularity and wealth beyond anyone’s dreams. Daisy’s quick exchange between the two men was only because of order, who saw who first, and wealth, who was richer. Gatsby fulfilled both those choices and more; thus, Daisy logically would regret her “love” for him.
The thoughts he has shaped are not what the actual reality is. This quote describes Daisy “tumbling short of his dreams” signifying that his high standards are something she can’t reach. The flawlessness he has created for her is nothing like the genuine Daisy that she is and in the novel you have an insufficient idea of her actual personality. This is not her fault; but because of the enormous development of his “creative passion” it is nothing she can become. The “ghostly heart” means a lonely or dark heart.
The Great Gatsby In the book,” The Great Gatsby “By F. Scott Fitzgerald the author compares and contrasts the difference and similarities between Tom and Gatsby and their own intimate relationship between Daisy. Throughout the story Gatsby thrives to reach his life goal to be with Daisy but what lies between the both of them is a brick wall, which represents Tom. Tom Buchanan is represented as a self-centered, arrogant man in the story and not many people like him in the book besides Myrtle. The difference between Tom and Gatsby is that he is a wealthy hulking man who lives in East egg where all the old money is at metaphorically speaking. Tom was part of the social club at the University Of Yale with Nick Caraway.
Pidgeon explains why Gatsby pretends to be having a great life. “Fitgerald makes it clear that Gatsby does not enjoy these things for himself. They are merely being used to realize his dream...the acquisition of Daisy” (181). As Nick gets to know Gatsby more closely we as the readers begin to think that, despite Gatsby’s enriching stories, things don’t add up. Gatsby did it all for Daisy.