Clearly interwoven into both pieces are similes and metaphors, which put Daisy and Gatsby on a parallel level allowing them to be collated within the mind of the reader. The sentences in Daisy's passage are long and drawn-out revealing her dramatic yet cheerfully snobby personality. Yet the sentences in Gatsby's passage are short and incomplete until the end when Gatsby is incarnated. This reveals that Fitzgerald used his sentence structures to convey the mood and reflections of both Daisy and Gatsby.
In Daisy's passage, the orchids and roses symbolize the disappearance of Gatsby and the creation of Tom allowing Daisy's unsteady thoughts to be complete. While Gatsby becomes complete with the kiss from his one true love Daisy. However "at his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complet
Daisy is more demanding and assertive as "she wanted her life shaped now, immediately - and the decision must be made by some force" projecting an impatient motif. She was constantly struggling within herself to make her dreams a reality but she didn't take action instead she waited for some outside force to act upon her. While Gatsby is undoubtedly an utopian at heart he is the one that actually reaches out for his erratic dreams. Both Gatsby and Daisy are dreamers, contemplating their thoughts through their fallacies and solidified conceptions of themselves. However Gatsby with "his heart in a constant, turbulent riot where the most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him at night" displays a conceited mood closer to reality, Daisy's mood is evidently erroneous and unreal. Daisy was constantly living for today, worrying
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