What Is Daisy's Ambition In The Great Gatsby

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the reader that many people would consider dreams to be positive motivators to achieve success,but they eventually lead to suffering. In the novel Gatsby, Daisy, and Myrtle come from different origins and all end up in a devastating position where their dreams are not fully complete. Gatsby is a person full ambition and has goals in his life to be able to be as powerful as Tom. He has always loved Daisy and changed his complete past. He transformed himself from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby without anyone knowing his past ¨I suppose he had the name ready for a long time, even then.¨ (pg 98) He rose from an unwealthy family of farmers, where he wished to have no type of association with them. Gatsby later on went to war and when he returned he came back with big dreams and showed off the money and power he had by throwing parties every weekend in the hope that he would see his lover, Daisy. Once they encountered he showed …show more content…
Her dream was to have a luxurious lifestyle filled with materialist objects. Daisy Buchanan was married with Tom and his wealth did not satisfy her enough. When she had a re encounter with Gatsby she was amazed by his property, ¨ I love it, but I don't see how you live there all alone,¨ she also cried at the beautiful shirts he owned. She didn’t know what love was and simply thought owning things would be a better life. Sadly she wasted her opportunity to be with Gatsby and she is to be blamed for his death. She was able to have all the money, but lived in misery with Tom. In The Great Gatsby all these characters were symbolized by their American Dream and it showed how if you try, you could succeed, but it will have a high cost. Myrtle and Gatsby full of ambitions were killed for loving others that weren't in their social classes. Meanwhile Daisy stayed in the same social class, but lived with Tom who didn't treat her