She married Tom Buchanan for his wealth and his rank within the social class. Before she married Tom, she was in love with Gatsby. She promised Gatsby when he got back from war they would get married, but she did otherwise. ... This proves that she only married Tom for his money. ... "she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round " (Fitzgerald 57) Nick notices that she bends the truth not only to get ahead in golf, but to get ahead in life. ...

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Before Daisy and Tom are married, Daisy and Gatsby meet, and start seeing eachother. ... Gatsby us forced to go off to World War I before Daisy and him can be wed or get any further involved with their romantic relationship. ... When Gatsby comes home from the war, he finds out that Daisy is married. ... Everything that Gatsby owns has been attained for the only purpose of fulfilling his dream to get Daisy back. ... She was very much in love with Gatsby, but because he wasn't wealthy, she married someone else. ...

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Now for one of the first times, the newly married couple Jay and Daisy Gatsby are announcing their marriage. ... They spent many captivating years together before getting engaged and now finally getting married. ... It is easy to tell that they will live a long happily married life together in their beautiful home. ... Tom and Myrtle Tom and Myrtle are two opposites that attracted but they work and balance each other out once they started to get to know one another. ... Myrtle helped run a car repair place and they met when Tom came to get his car fixed. ...

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(pg.137) Daisy and Gatsby fell in love during their youth, and she promised to wait for Gatsby until the war was over, but during that time she married Tom Buchanan because of his power and wealth. Since Daisy was married to Tom, it was forbidden for her to be with Gatsby, but she did it anyway. ... It is obvious that Daisy did actually love Gatsby, but highly unlikely that it was true love because if it was then she would have sacrificed her life of money and power, and married Gatsby instead. ... Gatsby came from poverty, and knew that a girl like Daisy would not marr...

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"'I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.' ... Daisy is married though, and his life's ambition of having Daisy fails. ... Tom is unfaithful, and has been involved in several affairs, yet Daisy remains married to him. ... Instead she married the wealthy Tom Buchanan. ... (Fitzgerald, 80) Right from the beginning Daisy had already had second thoughts about the marriage, getting completely drunk the night before and crying, but she went through with the marriage regardless. ...

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"'I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.' ... Daisy is married though, and his life's ambition of having Daisy fails. ... Tom is unfaithful, and has been involved in several affairs, yet Daisy remains married to him. ... Instead she married the wealthy Tom Buchanan. ... (Fitzgerald, 80) Right from the beginning Daisy had already had second thoughts about the marriage, getting completely drunk the night before and crying, but she went through with the marriage regardless. ...

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The book focuses on Gatsby and his foolish attempts to get a married woman. ... Gatsby convinced Nick, to formally introduce Gatsby and Daisy, who Nick knew was married – she was his cousin! As a result of Gatsby's actions to get closer to Daisy, by way of Nick, the, "brakes," that Nick claimed he became faulty. ... Nick and Gatsby both are aware that Daisy is married, yet neither of them stop before pursuing Fitzgerald uses George Wilson, a naive car shop owner in the "valley of ashes," similarly to how Nick was used (p. 20). ...

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His obsession is evident in that he gets satisfaction in not seeing Daisy, but merely looking at a place where he knows she is near. ... Gatsby first resolves to reunite with Daisy after organizing a get together at the home of his neighbor, Nick Carraway, where Daisy will be unaware of his presence. ... He does not analyze the situation and thinks that his confession of unrequited love will easily win over the married Daisy. ... He felt married to her, that was all- (157). ... The stunning truth for Gatsby was that Daisy was married and that no amount of money or flattery could win her b...

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He is afraid that she will scream or think he is trying to get too familiar if he offers to help her. ... Before Daisy got married to Tom, she was in a relationship with Jay. ... She was wealthy and Tom was also wealthy, so they got married. ... She sees that Jay is rich and can afford anything and now she regrets that she married Tom instead of Jay. ...

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The Resemblance of Colors The novel The Great Gatsby was written in the 1920's, after the World War I. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald did a good job obtaining the atmosphere of the time period. He uses many techniques to make the book understandable about the people at the time. He uses colo...

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That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a – '" (17). ... For this, and not the love, Daisy and Tom are married. ... Daisy gives an expression that she would have married Gatsby had it not been that he was initially poor. ... This is because, with a woman of lower social stations, Myrtle, Tom can resort to violence and drunkenness and get away with it. ... "The only crazy I was was when I married him. ...

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He is so intent on getting Daisy it seems he will doing anything to win her love; including doing illegal things to get money. ... Generally, when people get married it is because they love one another, but in The Great Gatsby, the upper class' weddings are mainly for social purposes. ... It is obvious that they are not truly in love but they are married because their social standings make them perfect for one another. ... We see when Myrtle asks Tom to buy her a dog, "I want to get one of those dogs...I want to get one for the apartment" (31). ... Now, since she married Tom, she live...

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Tom was seen driving Gatsby's car the day before so, Tom had to make sure that he did not get into any trouble. ... Tom saw this as a perfect opportunity to get back at Gatsby for taking both of the women in his life away from him. ... Gatsby was the one who pursued a relationship with Daisy, a married woman. "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. ... "after she was free, they would go back to Louisville and be married from her house- just as if it were five years ago" (Fitzgerald 116). ...

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We are expected to act like adults but yet we don't get the full advantages of being an adult... I don't think he likes to get involved in other peoples business, he would rather stick to his own business... The reason I say she is a bad girlfriend or wife is because while she is still married to Tom she is out fooling around with Gatsby. ... The way if affected Gatsby is he was jealous because he used to have something with Daisy and he comes back to her to find out that she is married to Tom. Even though she is married he wants her. ...

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Gatsby is in love with Daisy, who is now married to another man, Tom Buchanan. ... Daisy broke up with him years before because he was poor, as he points out to Tom when he reveals his and Daisy's affair: "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me- (p.137). Gatsby's hope to obtain wealth takes him down several paths of dishonest get- rich- quick ways of making money, all in hopes of speeding up process of getting Daisy back. ...

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From that time on she presented herself to be happily married but in truth she felt trapped in her marriage. ... Myrtle Wilson is married to George but having an affair with Tom Buchanan. ... Appeared to be kind but not afraid to be unscrupulous to get what he wanted. ... He was willing to do whatever it took to get money in hopes of being with Daisy again. ...

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However, Nick is only person pursuing a better and larger life who doesn't get caught up in the shallow, materialistic notions of most people doing the same thing. ... After getting settled, Nick visits the Buchanans and meets Daisy Buchanan "whom I scarcely knew at all" (p. 11) and Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. ... One week after Fitzgerald achieved notoriety by publishing This Side of Paradise in 1920, however, Zelda and Fitzgerald were married. ... Myrtle Wilson vehemently denies being "crazy in love" with George, but rather, that "[t]he only crazy I was was when I married him"...

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We briefly get a description of Gatsby. ... We do not really get a good look at him, just an outline of his figure. ... Towards the end of the chapter, we get our first meeting with Gatsby. It occurs when Jordan and Nick go outside to get away from the party. ... Gatsby knows that Daisy is married, but yet he still tells her about his dream and how he stares at the green light at the end of her dock every night. ...

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The setting of this paperback is in the get-rich-quick decade, this is when the American dream blossomed. ... In addition, Nick stated that everyone he knew was in the bond business meaning it was a secured method to start getting money. ... The love from Daisy to Gatsby was long lost when she married Tom Buchanan, her other unsympathetic half. ...

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I get the feeling that she doesn't really care about her daughter which was backed up when she says, "I"m glad it's a girl. ... She tells that she only married Tom Buchanan for the security he offered and love had little to do with the issue. ... "Next day at five o"clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver and started off on a three months" trip to the South Seas"(81). 3. ...

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Deanie visits Bud, who is married to Angelina and has a child with her. ... The point of the movie is that we don't always get what we want in life, but we can cope with the outcome. ... So, he decides to let go and forget it all, hoping to get an inner hush. ... I read this essay a few times and failed to get to the point. ...

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He is staring intently at a small green light across the water, and the reader gets a distinct feeling that Gatsby is longing for something. ... As the novel progresses, we discover that everything Gatsby does "the reason he moved out East, the reason he throws elaborate parties, and essentially everything he works for "is an attempt to get back together with Daisy, his girlfriend back before the war. Since that time she has moved on and married Tom Buchanan, but Gatsby refuses to accept that she is no longer an integral part of his life. ... As the novel nears its conclusion, a seri...

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The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. ... Instead, his main...

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The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. ... Instead, his main...

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The American Dream was essentially a dream of money, wealth, prosperity and the happiness that supposedly came with the booming economy and get-rich-quick schemes that formed the essential underworld of American upper-class society. ... She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." (Pg. 37) She dreams being a part of the elite group of the idle rich, a desire she satisfies through an affair with Tom Buchanan, a married man who is extremely wealthy. ... Instead, his main...

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