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Daisy's choice at the end made no sense at all,just stupid


I didnt read the book,ı hope it is explained there cause ı am planning to read it,a women who met her first love and starts an affair with him for months,and tells his husband that she loves him and she is leaving him,tells Gatsby she wants to stay thay way forever,changes her mind in a couple of hours and leaves with his husband,it was totally dumm.

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Might want to work on your pronouns.

Let's be bad guys.

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The whole point is that she sacks off true love for wealth and reputation - the real villains of the story.

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Exactly

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And keep in mind SHE was driving the car that killed Myrtle

3 people knew the truth of it, Nick, Her, and Gatsby

Gatsby's dead, and the cars in his garage, so he's guilty, by default

And the super rich move on,

She was never going to leave Tom for Gatsby, old money stays with old money


You don't have to stand tall, but you do have to stand up!

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Well I mean the signs and hints were there from the beginning.

If she were a decent honest girl she would have waited for Gatsby and not marry Tom for a $350,000 diamond neklace, keep in mind that happened that afternoon after she got the letter from Gatsby.

But this movie is more about Gatsby trying to repeat the past and his grand vision for the future with a part for Daisy in it.

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Well in the book she was in love with Gatsby at first, however he left for war and never wrote her. She had to move on and went with tom. She however received a the letter from Gatsby that she was waiting for all along on her wedding night which reminded her she still loved him. She later went back with Gatsby. And the plaza hotel she did want to go with Gatsby, however when she ran over Myrtle she had to go back to tom as she had nowhere to turn to now. That and she didn't want to be held accountable for myrtle's death and preferred for Gatsby to take the blame. I agree she was very selfish and ignorant.

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