How Does Daisy Change Throughout The Great Gatsby

When Nick comes home, Gatsby startles him by approaching him from across the lawn and inviting him to come with him to Coney Island or to come and swim in his pool. Nick realizes he just wants him to agree to make plans for him and tells Gatsby that he will help by inviting Daisy over for tea. Gatsby is delighted and says he wants someone to cut Nick’s grass and that he can also help him earn some money by joining him in a suspicious sounding business he does on the side, but Nick declines both offers. The next day, while is it raining, Gatsby sends someone to cut the grass and sends many flowers. When Gatsby arrives, he is noticeably extremely nervous. He checks to make sure everything is perfect and after waiting for an hour, he believes she won’t show up. Daisy finally arrives, but when Nick brings her in, Gatsby is gone. After a few moments, he enters after having walked around the house. Their reunion is very awkward at first and Gatsby tells Nick that it was a mistake. However, when Nick leaves for a while, he comes back to find both of them happily sitting. Gatsby invites them both to his house, which Daisy admires greatly due to the luxury. They walk to his room, where Gatsby takes out his collection of shirts, making Daisy cry. They go outside and Gatsby tells Daisy about the green light. Back inside, Gatsby calls Klipspringer, a strange character who plays the piano. While Klipspringer is playing, Nick quickly realizes that Gatsby and Daisy have forgotten that he is there, so he gets up and leaves them alone together. In the sixth chapter, when Nick tells about how the rumors about Gatsby have continued to spread, he tells the readers about who he really is. Gatsby was born as James Gatz and is the son of unsuccessful farmers in North Dakota. He attended St. Olaf’s in Minnesota but dropped out after two weeks because he despised the janitorial work he needed to do in order to pay tuition. During one summer, he worked on Lake Superior fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day, he met Dan Cody and became his personal assistant. While traveling, Gatsby fell in love with wealth and luxury. One of his jobs was to look after Cody when he was drunk, which led to Gatsby not becoming a drinker himself. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody’s mistress …show more content…
I relate to this scene because I have just started communicating with someone I haven 't seen in ten years. However, unlike the novel, due to the technology today, we are able to remain in contact through social media and don’t have to go through an awkward reuniting phase like Gatsby and Daisy. This scene shows parts of the two characters that hadn 't been seen before. Daisy is no longer the talkative woman she was earlier in the novel and Gatsby is now forced to communicate to rekindle the relationship. Their meeting causes Daisy to no longer be represented by the green light and to no longer just be a part of Gatsby’s perfect dream, but instead is a component of his flawed reality. Prior to that day, the green light represented a dream filled with hope, youth, and love, but now that his desires have been fulfilled, the light has lost its