"'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. ...

• Word Count: 892
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"'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. ...

• Word Count: 897
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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). ...

• Word Count: 782
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 792
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 559
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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). ...

• Word Count: 931
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 773
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 848
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 528
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

First of all materialistic importance is seen in Tom's attitude to getting Daisy to marry him. Tom gave Daisy a beautiful $350,000 dollar pearl necklace to get her. ... This relationship is an affair, because Tom is married to Daisy. ...

• Word Count: 497
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Daisy promised to wait for him when he left for the war, but while Gatsby was studying at Oxford after the war in an attempt to gain an education, daisy married tom Buckingham. ... Jay Gatsby didn't get his money honestly, he was in organized crime, by distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen goods. ... I think that he never really got his chance in life to prove to people that he could turn around his life, get along with his dad and win the girl over. ...

• Word Count: 599
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• Grade Level: High School

Tom Buchanan is a rich man married to Daisy who is the second cousin once removed of the narrator Nick. ... After Gatsby came back from the military where he met Daisy and fell in love with her, he always worked on getting her back and making things perfect like they were when they first met. ...

• Word Count: 549
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• Grade Level: High School

We know we won't forget those wonderful parties he gave with the fancy orchestra, wonderfully delicious buffets, and finger foods where we would get acquainted with one another. ... She married a enormously wealthy man named Tom Buchanan a former college football star. ...

• Word Count: 449
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Daisy Buchanan has married Tom, but Jay lives in the hope that she will return to him one day. ... Throughout the novel, the reader gets the impression that Nick likes himself and enjoys the trust of many people. ...

• Word Count: 598
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Since then she had married a fellow named Tom and all Gatsby wants is to regain her love. ... He is biased towards Gatsby and acts like his puppet at times; allowing Gatsby to use him to get closer to Daisy. ...

• Word Count: 521
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• Grade Level: High School

Changing Places "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone- -just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had-(5). Authors use different symbols to represent the personalities of characters. In the novel, The great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses diffe...

• Word Count: 546
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• Grade Level: High School

Marie and Daisy are both married and both their husbands are becoming distanced from them. ... When Gatsby left for war, Daisy reluctantly married Tom Buchanan. ... You'll have to get some other little boy to play with you don't help things any by pretending. ...

• Word Count: 916
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel, Daisy leads Gatsby into thinking that she is still madly in love with him, even though Gatsby clearly knows Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. ... This is ridiculous she is married! ... He tries so hard and all he ends up getting is an affair that lasts a few days. ...

• Word Count: 964
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

[Gatsby] didn't get it" (100). ... After Gatsby left for the war Daisy met and married Tom Buchanan. ... Gatsby saw, but did not truly believe that Daisy has gotten has gotten married and had a child, "Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. ...

• Word Count: 1201
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• Grade Level: High School

His cousin is Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom Buchanan, a powerfully built wealthy man who can not keep from dating other women while he is married. ... As such, I would recommend this book to my friends because many of them are around the marrying age of their mid-twenties, and no few of them are getting married. ...

• Word Count: 1215
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• Grade Level: High School

His cousin is Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom Buchanan, a powerfully built wealthy man who cannot keep himself from dating other women while he is married. ... As such, I would recommend this book to my friends because many of them are around the marrying age of their mid-twenties, and no few of them are getting married. ...

• Word Count: 1176
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, as the story unfolds, troubling events befall Gatsby, preventing him from getting what he always wanted. ... Daisy could last so long awaiting Gatsby's arrival, and in this time she met Tom Buchanan whom she fell in love with and married while Gatsby was away. ... He managed to pry his way back into her life and get in between her and Tom. ... Gatsby still fervently believed that no matter what Tom said about him, that Daisy still held love in her heart for the name Gatsby, and that he still had a chance to get her back. ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

After her beau left for the army, she married a rich man from Chicago, Tom Buchanan. ... When she decided to leave him for the wealth of Tom, his mind told him that money was the only way to get her back. ... The poor animal was blind, ignorant and had little chance of surviving. " She really ought to get away from him, resumed Catherine to me. ... Myrtle was unsatisfied with love and committed adultery to get the money she wanted. ...

• Word Count: 723
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• Grade Level: High School

But sadly, he is so hung up on his dream that he refuses to see reality and continues his plans for him and Daisy to be married. ... After Gatsby is shot and killed and his funeral is over, you get uplifted although it is a sad time. ... This story really brings that whole idea out; the idea that you can't always get what you want. ...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School