The Great Gatsby

THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby highlights the relationship between characters Daisy Buchannan and Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel in selected memories and flash backs, the readers are informed of an intimate bond that Gatsby and Daisy shared so many years before the time that the story line had begun. Using descriptive scenery, analogies and imagery, Fitzgerald creates the beginning of a chaotic saga that lingers between the two characters. Their …

…it was before. shell see. However, Gatsby cannot ignore what stands before him, and it becomes blatantly obvious that Gatsby was never truly in love with Daisy at all: just the image that he had made up about her. Gatsby and Daisys relationship creates the conflict throughout the entire novel. Fitzgerald does a beautiful job intertwining the conflict with the reality of what it was like in the 1920s and how society worked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**