In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan emerges as a character that portrays the epitome of true love. The complexity of the character of Daisy subdues itself to simple form when it comes to her happiness. Her happiness is based solely on money and property alone, but this money also allows Tom to continually dominate her. Daisy's adoration for materialistic objects and stability prove her to be shallow and incapable of true love for Jay Gatsby. Daisy is identified as superior and so rich that she is incapable of being in love with anyone unlike or less than her. Daisy's lack of courage to leave Tom and genuine concern for their daughter, make it impossible for Daisy to commit into a relationship with Gatsby. Brian Sutton confirms, "Daisy realizes that she lacks the emotional clarity and fortitude to leave her husband in favor of Gatsby" (95). No matter how much money Gatsby has or whatever he does, he can never change Daisy and what happened ov!

Another foreshadow of Gatsby's downfall and cause of his death is the setting during the last part of the story. By the end of the story, the summer has begun to fall. Myrtle's death results in part from the fading of this summer light, which leads directly to Gatsby's death the next day. Gatsby's dream and life have been extinguished with the dying of the summer light (Sutton 106). The dying of the summer light, along with Gatsby, can capture how both Gatsby and Daisy feel about each other.

When Gatsby first meets Daisy and later in the story when they are reunited, he is profoundly dishonest and manipulative. In asking Daisy to leave Tom, he is being manipulative to get her to be with him. Gatsby lies to Daisy without the slightest bit of remorse because she is the idealized object of his dreams and, therefore, is not real. Daisy is considered a possession and Gatsby has to fight Tom for this possession. John Callahan illustrates this idea "When Tom and Gatsby are fighting over Daisy, Daisy is the prized possession to be fought over on the basis of social and economic conventions" (382). Daisy is a possession of material to Tom, while Daisy is an ideal possession for Gatsby. Either way, both are being manipulative and dishonest to Daisy. This shows that neither one of them truly care for or about Daisy's feelings. This false self leads to a fake relationship between him and Daisy in which they both want what they used to have in 1917.

Jay Gatsby has earned all of his money and lived his whole life, in hopes to win Daisy's affection. Gatsby's checkered past of bootlegging, shows that he would stop at nothing to have Daisy. Daisy's rare elegance offers Gatsby a difficult time of separating money and love. Jay's attempt to pursue Daisy fails due to her inability to leaver her past and his inability to lead a life without all the false glamour. John Callahan explains, "The experience of love deeply moves and changes Gatsby, but so pervasive is the culture of material success that his new reverence and tenderness toward her are inseparable from money and possessions" (381). As long as Gatsby cannot be himself and Daisy cannot love him for it, their affair is hopeless. Jay's struggle to be with Daisy is interrupted by her shallow wants and needs.

There are certain scenes in the story that can trace Gatsby's rise and fall as he attempts to recapture Daisy's love. The first meeting between him and Daisy shows Gatsby's brief moment of triumph. The meeting at Gatsby's house went smoothly with talk about further gatherings together. This time is soon reversed though, whenever Tom and Gatsby confront one another. This is the moment where Daisy finally crushes Gatsby's hopes and dreams of rekindling their love by telling him she cannot leave Tom. Gatsby's hopes are clearly dead after

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