Relationships In The Great Gatsby

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Opposites Don’t Attract There are many things that cannot mix well. For example, oil and water cannot possibly combine, as well as peanut butter and horseradish. Just as food sometimes does not mix, not all people have the ability to integrate either. F. Scott Fitzgerld’s 1920’s novel The Great Gatsby demonstrates that greed and love are two things that can not allow two people to fuse together well. Greed is a trait that many people do not look for in others. F. Scott Fitzgerld demonstrates greed through the character of Daisy. The main priority for her is to be as high up on the social scale as she can get. Daisy’s happiness is a price she is willing to pay in order to have social status: “‘You see i think everything’s terrible anyhow,’…show more content…
He finds out that she had married into wealth and realizes that the only thing that will allow him to get closer to Daisy is to obtain wealth. He moves across the bay from Daisy in a very specific spot, one where he can see Daisy’s home: “‘It was a strange coincidence.’ ‘But it wasn’t a coincidence at all.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.’ Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor” (Fitzgerald,…show more content…
After Daisy visits Gatsby’s extravagant mansion, she become much more interested than before and Gatsby uses that to try and win her over. Tom later finds out about the affair and confronts him while at the hotel while Daisy is present. They argue over who she will choose, and Daisy’s decision goes back and forth, but she eventually chooses to stay with Tom. Gatsby retreats to his mansion, broken-hearted. He is later killed by a man who is sent by Tom. Towards the end of the novel, Nick runs into them as they are leaving for a long vacation, and finally realizes how truly ruthless and greedy Tom and Daisy are: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...” (Fitzgerald, 179). Nick doesn’t seem to have any desire to talk to them again, due to what they had done to Gatsby. He also doesn’t think it is fair of Daisy to, after all that Gatsby had gone through to show Daisy that he loved her, she wanted absolutely nothing to do with him after his death. She did not so much as send flowers or a sympathy card. As demonstrated
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