Hayley’s Blog

Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately—and the decision must be made by some force—of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality—that was close at hand”

1. After Gatsby is gone Daisy almost instantly goes back to the way her life was before him. It shows that society tries the utmost to keep us in our place and to break out of that pattern is nearly impossible. It also illustrates that it is almost easier just to stay where you are and accept it, it may be safer too.

It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete

1. Fitzgerald is arguing that there is no escaping what you come from. you must either return to the life that you once came from or everything as you know it will come to an end.

2. Daisy is a typical example of somebody who allows her life to be controlled by others. Her dream is whatever someone persuedes it to be. Perhaps that is why she is never content because she doesn’t now what she wants. She tries to break out by having an affair with Gatsby but will most likely be thrust into what is familiar to her. Whoever has the most power of Daisy is who controls what and how she thinks although she is unaware that she is a trade piece of meat.