Why doesn’t Daisy choose Gatsby?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I'm writing someone's 11th grade English essay for them right now lol

It's still interesting somehow! Today, Daisy WOULD leave Tom for Jay. She would know the courts would protect her parental rights. And Jay's social capital would be just as good as Tom's old money society. She would be on the cover of Vogue, and start a fashion line. No losses for her. But we still wouldn't know who she really loves!

That would be an amazing novel - a retelling of the story in today's world. Nick could be out as gay, Daisy could run off with Gatsby. What else would be different?

The hamptons sink underwater due to global warming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like I'm writing someone's 11th grade English essay for them right now lol

It's still interesting somehow! Today, Daisy WOULD leave Tom for Jay. She would know the courts would protect her parental rights. And Jay's social capital would be just as good as Tom's old money society. She would be on the cover of Vogue, and start a fashion line. No losses for her. But we still wouldn't know who she really loves!

Today Jay would be a drug dealer. Tom would use that against her in court.

Please be more specific. You mean like a Sackler family member or Pfizer C-suite or some $100M+ medical doctor who owns a handful of pill mills in flyover country?

Or would be a new age casino/gambling mobster like Dave Portnoy and whoever the hell owns most of the shares of FanDuel and DraftKings online betting sites?

Probably like Fauci- sr govt job for life, personally invests in tons of stuff, talking head for Big Pharma and the administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Daisy doesn’t love Tom or Gatsby! She only loves her daughter. She loves to be loved. And she’s a weak, pathetic creature.

Do you really think she loves her daughter? She just seems so narcissistic and self centered I got the impression she had a child because she was supposed to, likes her enough but doesn’t really love her or want to raise her.

[Anonymous]

Danish would have ended up in a mental hospital. She had a very tenuous grip on her mental health.

[Anonymous]

Daisy, not danish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Danish would have ended up in a mental hospital. She had a very tenuous grip on her mental health.

Well, that's Zelda, F. Scott's wife.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been re-watching the Leo DiCaprio movie of Great Gatsby and realize Daisy’s an enigma. She seems to love Gatsby but choose to continue to stay with her philandering brute of a husband.

Why? Is it the material comfort? If so, Gatsby is rich too.

Family status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like I'm writing someone's 11th grade English essay for them right now lol

It's still interesting somehow! Today, Daisy WOULD leave Tom for Jay. She would know the courts would protect her parental rights. And Jay's social capital would be just as good as Tom's old money society. She would be on the cover of Vogue, and start a fashion line. No losses for her. But we still wouldn't know who she really loves!

That would be an amazing novel - a retelling of the story in today's world. Nick could be out as gay, Daisy could run off with Gatsby. What else would be different?

Haha, I remember DS was reading First Love by Turgenev in high school. He was so frustrated: what was the point? Why don't Zinaida get married with the father already So many romantic novels would have lost all the drama without the constraint of time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Danish would have ended up in a mental hospital. She had a very tenuous grip on her mental health.

Well, that's Zelda, F. Scott's wife.

Exactly. I didn’t want to give too much information to the 11th grader, haha. They ought to do some of the research themselves.

[Anonymous]

Ugh having to analyze every inch of that book in high school made me hate it.

"What does the green light represent?"

WHO CARES?

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Lol.

This is why I like DCUM entertainment. We can review and conduct literary analyses in books, movies, series, directing.

It’s like a little live book club of cool people. Maybe we can all meet up and chat outside at open city in this stuff. No high schoolers allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh having to analyze every inch of that book in high school made me hate it.

"What does the green light represent?"

WHO CARES?

Honestly, it is not taught well. I hear this from people who would otherwise appreciate the themes. You can't make a high school kid notice the green light. That is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like I'm writing someone's 11th grade English essay for them right now lol

LOL love this

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Daisy doesn’t love Tom or Gatsby! She only loves her daughter. She loves to be loved. And she’s a weak, pathetic creature.

Do you really think she loves her daughter? She just seems so narcissistic and self centered I got the impression she had a child because she was supposed to, likes her enough but doesn’t really love her or want to raise her.

Actually, you are correct. I was trying to give some redeeming qualities (motherhood love) to Daisy. But, alas, she fails there, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh having to analyze every inch of that book in high school made me hate it.

"What does the green light represent?"

WHO CARES?

I remember this - all the color analysis

I am pretty sure my paper about it was some theory about the colors

I was so good at BSing