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Daisy Does Not Love Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is based upon three characters involved in a love trigon. ( However & # 8230 ; intending behind this ) Daisy, a beautiful yet insecure immature adult female is married to Tom, but besides accepts the wooing of Gatsby, her first true love. Set in the 1920s, tangled into the web of lovers are complications such as philistinism, greed, criminal conversation, and power hungriness. Though Gatsby and Tom have confessed their love for Daisy, she is incapable of returning her love to either character. Because she per se desires to be the centre of attending she focuses her energy on scoring work forces. The boundless love of merely one adult male can non convey Daisy contentment. Thus Daisy is non fulfilled by Gatsby s love and does non in return love him back.

Daisy s incessant demand to be loved by everyone around her thrusts Daisy s ( really ) first action. Nick describes her

looking up into my face, assuring that there was no 1 in the universe she so much wanted to see… ( I ve heard it said that Daisy s mutter was merely to do people thin toward her ; an irrelevant unfavorable judgment that made it no less capturing. ) ( 13 ) Daisy is a maestro of the art of flirting. She instinctively ( is trained to instantly ) works to achieve the attending of any adult male that enters her life. She employs tactics such as talking quietly doing people to tilt toward her and direct their concentration entirely towards her. Her facial look and tone of voice are clearly exaggerated as she speaks to Nick because he has such a strong reaction to it. He infers from her idiosyncrasies that there was no 1 in the universe she so much wanted to see. Daisy s behaviour has a hypnotising consequence on her victims. It is no surprise that Gasby has deathless love for Daisy ; nevertheless, she has forgotten about him for about five old ages.