The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Analysis over chapter 7 pages 129-145
Everybody in this book is a hypocrite. Everybody in this book is selfish. And everybody in this book is dumb.(Except for Nick, then again he doesn't really matter though). Tom and Gatsby go all out in this section of chapter seven. Battling over Daisy's love, both men claim that Daisy never loved the other, which is ultimately false. Gatsby claims,"Your wife doesn't love you, she never loved you. She loves me," but Tom replies,"Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now,"(Fitzgerald,130-131). Although she always did love Gatsby, she did at one point love Tom as well. This fact just makes matters worse because the fight basically becomes a battle of who can provide more Daisy. Tom pretty much wins the battle though when he takes a stab at Gatsby's bootlegging. Tom knows Daisy would never want to stoop low enough to be with a criminal, especially when her other option is a wealthy, aristocrat. It's rather hypocritical for Tom to make this comment though, given the fact that he is having an affair with a girl from the Valley of Ashes. In the end, Tom and Daisy are just selfish, snobby, rich people who couldn't fathom to live a life other than the one that has already been bestowed upon them. It is truly Daisy's wealth that makes her so alluring to Gatsby. She was born into her wealth, something Gatsby will never be ever to obtain no matter how wealthy he is. Gatsby will ultimately loose Daisy for the same reason he loves her. He can't be the aristocrat Tom is. It's Daisy's negligence that leads to her downfall. She hits and kills Myrtle with Gatsby's car, and now it's Gatsby who is going to take the blame. Will Daisy ever be punished for her own actions?
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