Daisy's Wealth In The Great Gatsby

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Jay Gatsby is a very wealthy man in the booming city of New York in the 1920s. He did not always start out wealthy, he was a poor boy in North Dakota for his childhood, but he always had high hopes of being wealthy and sophisticated. After dropping out of college, he joined the Army and whilst in the Army, he met Daisy Buchanan. After they were in love while he was in the Army, he went away and they drifted apart. What drove him to be wealthy was Daisy’s love for him. His drive to get through the war and survive was the thought that Daisy would be waiting for him when he was decommissioned. Gatsby was completely in love with Daisy while he was in the Army. But then, when he got out of the Army, she had married someone already rich named Tom …show more content…
Gatsby gets rich for Daisy and wants her to notice him again so they could meet for a second time out of “coincidence”. In a quote by Jordan she states. “ 'I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night,” (Fitzgerald 84). He bought the house so Daisy may see that he throws parties and maybe she would get intrigued by these parties so she would come to one so they could meet again. He wants to show her that he is not poor anymore, that she can be happy with him again and not Tom. Gatsby believes that she is just with Tom just for his money but Daisy says “Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom, it wouldn’t be true.” (140). This shows that Daisy is actually in love with Tom and she actually did want to marry him because she loved him, not just for the grand amount money his family had. Gatsby believes that Daisy needs to be with the best, that she deserves the best man to take care of her and marry her. Gatsby thinks that he is the best man for that, he thinks he can take care of her better than Tom can. This is crazy because Tom, even though he cheats, is a good man, he does not treat Daisy bad, he just treats other women good as

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