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thirty years?’ ”She even thinks that “the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”. That’s a girl that only a man like Tom can marry. Gatsby himself too believed that Daisy married Tom because he was poor and she was tired of waiting for him. Even though they reunioned five years later, their connection was still built upon money. Daisy was willing to see Gatz only because Gatz had owed abundant assets. It is before the five characters move to New York that Gatsby makes his famous remark to Nick: “‘Her voice is full of money’”. The connection between Daisy and Gatsby the unobtainable and the insubstantialis destined to founder in a material world. He died in the end in order to protect Daisy. That’s the consequence of wrong love. He wouldn’t die if Daisy wasn’t so nervous and freaked out after Tom revealed Gatsby’s criminal activities and didn’t run over Myrtle Wilson. He was made a scapegoat by Tom and shot by Myrtle’s husband at last. The most ironic thing is, Daisy didn’t even attend Gatz’s funeral.Fitzgerald’s real intent is to unveil the fact that because of different social position, people are treated unfairly even in the aspect of love. Love has preference to upper class. Even though Gatsby is rich enough, he can never have the equivalent social status. He will always be the humble guy who can not surpass his strata, let alone defeat Tom the aristocrat and marry Daisy.3. Causes from the main characterGatsby himself The Idealism of Jay GatsbyFrom Gatsby, one can see that a major contradiction intrinsic to American dream, the contradiction of idealism and reality. Ever since his childhood Gatz had displayed his talent of imagination and considered himself different from ordinary people. Naturally, he is motivated to pursue goodness and beauty.The whole effort that Jay Gatsby made is trying to get his love back, something he has lost for a very long time. He pictures everything to be good. To Gatsby, Daisy is the symbol of that ‘39。vast,vulgar, and meretricious beauty”(P97) which he aspires to. Daisy is his dream, a dream that is so pure and beautiful. He believes that as long as he is rich Daisy would e back to him. So five years later after Daisy left him and married Tom, Gatsby returned with huge wealth and intended to win Daisy back. He “bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.”(P61) Meanwhile, he host big parties everyday so that Daisy might be attracted to his party some day. For Gatsby, the Daisy Gatsby relationship has endured: He has loved Daisy for five years. Matthew J. Bruccoli(2007) once wrote in New Essays on the The Great Gatsby, “if their love is founded upon feelings from the past, these give it, notwithstanding Gatsby’s insistence on being able to repeat the past, an inviolability.” Some implications of the inviolability Gatsby does not see. When Nick told him that he can’t repeat his past, he cried incredulously, “why, of course you can!” and he “is going to fix everything just the way as it was before”. His very protesting, however ,shows his sense of the impossibility of returning and makes at once more poignant and more desperate his effort to win Daisy a poignancy further increased by the futility of his money in achieving this end. He sees that the pursuit of his money is a substitute for love. He knows himself well enough to see that his own attraction toward wealth is tied to his love for Daisy. What Gatsby buys he buys for a purpose: to win Daisy. But there is a danger for Gatsby in this redeeming purposefulness. When he buys his fantastic house, he thinks he is buying a dream, not simply purchasing property. This direction makes Gatsby a more sympathetic man than Tom, but it is a sympathy he projects at the price of naivete。 he is pletely innocent of the limits of what money can do.Nick gathered that “he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was…”(P109) Gatsby does not see that the corruption at the base of his fortune in effect promises his vision of life with Daisy. You cannot win the ideal with the corrupt, and you can not buy integrity or taste with dollars. He was doomed to end in tragedy when he started his illusory quest for Daisy Buchanan. The influence of money upon Jay GatsbyAdmit it or not, Gatz had changed a lot at the specific moment when he saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor on Lake Superior. Having been exposed to Cody’s extravagant life, his values about money were greatly affected. “To young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, the yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world.” He was impressed by the importance of money. It arouse his self esteem and gave him the ambition of stepping into the upper class and being a rich man some day. So the first time he saw Daisy, who is noble, charming and rich, he couldn’t help loving this girl. She was the first ‘nice girl’ he had ever known. He tried to marry for love into a class higher than the one he es from. In fact, he had e in contact with such people in various unrevealed capacities, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. He found her excitingly desirable. And it excited him too that many men had already loved Daisyit increased her value in his eyes. But he knew that however glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past. So he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security。 he let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as herself that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities he had no fortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.(p145) In the end, D