I had this sickening lurch in the pit of my stomach. I couldn’t believe that Daisy was so unhappy with me she had never loved me and was going off with a man she had recently met. But then that feeling just disappeared. She wouldn’t look at me and say it. And when she broke down and began crying in front of Gatsby, I realized how deep her indecision really ran. She had loved me, and Gatsby’s pushing her to confront me about it ultimately was his undoing. All the same, this event taught me that I needed to stop fooling around with other women and focus on this one love that had brought so much joy to my life. I realized that the passion Daisy felt for Gatsby wasn’t real, simply something she was remembering. Gatsby’s love was a carefully nurtured obsession that he fed every day, and so he was ultimately doomed to heartbreak a second time.
Alyssa Goheen (Daisy)
ReplyDeleteIt's true, I was very indecisive. I couldn't exactly say that I didn't care about you, but I couldn't say I didn't care about Gatsby either. Gatsby was a big part of my past, and he wasn't easy to forget. But it's not true that I didn't love Gatbsy, and I know you think that Gatsby was someone I met recently, but he meant a lot to me in the past. Gatsby was asking too much from me, and I knew you would never ask so much of me. I couldn't say I never loved you, because it wasn't true, Gatsby saw me as the same person I was in the past and I couldn't be that, I changed with you, but Gatsby couldn't see it.