Why couldn't Gatsby just get over Daisy?

[MalikReloaded]

I'm a big fan of the book/movies but, that's just one thing that irks me.

Dude gets rejected by the love of his life (eventhough they only knew each other for a summer) for being unsuitable (poor) and he's so hurt by it, it motivates him to build his empire.

Dude goes on to make a fukk ton of money. And he still pines after the same girl from before I mean, it's so hard for me to suspend my realism. You really expect us to believe someone who's made $100 million, truly traveled and conquered the entire world and been exposed to the highest echelon of women that mega success can warrant would still be grieving over a high school crush I wish I would still be thinking about girls I dated from 17-22 if I hit the lottery or made billions. This is like some dot com billionaire wanting to marry the girl who rejected him in high school. You can't be serious.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Cause he was a simp.

 

[MalikReloaded]

Cause he was a simp.

But you'd think making millions and being around thousands of girls who're 100x more attractive than Daisy would have knocked it out of him

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

I'm a big fan of the book/movies but, that's just one thing that irks me.

Dude gets rejected by the love of his life (eventhough they only knew each other for a summer) for being unsuitable (poor) and he's so hurt by it, it motivates him to build his empire.

Dude goes on to make a fukk ton of money. And he still pines after the same girl from before I mean, it's so hard for me to suspend my realism. You really expect us to believe someone who's made $100 million, truly traveled and conquered the entire world and been exposed to the highest echelon of women that mega success can warrant would still be grieving over a high school crush I wish I would still be thinking about girls I dated from 17-22 if I hit the lottery or made billions. This is like some dot com billionaire wanting to marry the girl who rejected him in high school. You can't be serious.

It wasn't about Daisy at all, it was more about what she represented which was high society and the good life which he had never known. Daisy was the unattainable for him because he had ambition and he believed in himself but he had nothing in terms of money or prestige so when he met her and she bruised his ego and made him realize he wasn't anything special it hurt him psychologically. The idea was that if he was able to get Daisy he would finally prove to himself and society at large that he deserved to be looked upon as more than his circumstances but rather his abilities.


























Or you prescribe to the more appealing theory that he's a fukkin simp.

 

[satam55]

I'm a big fan of the book/movies but, that's just one thing that irks me.

Dude gets rejected by the love of his life (eventhough they only knew each other for a summer) for being unsuitable (poor) and he's so hurt by it, it motivates him to build his empire.

Dude goes on to make a fukk ton of money. And he still pines after the same girl from before I mean, it's so hard for me to suspend my realism. You really expect us to believe someone who's made $100 million, truly traveled and conquered the entire world and been exposed to the highest echelon of women that mega success can warrant would still be grieving over a high school crush I wish I would still be thinking about girls I dated from 17-22 if I hit the lottery or made billions. This is like some dot com billionaire wanting to marry the girl who rejected him in high school. You can't be serious.

Didn't you already do a similar thread like this?

 

[Colin X]

If he got over Daisy he wouldn't have moved to West Egg

He wouldn't have put his house right at the spot so Daisy could see the light every party


He wouldn't have gotten Nick to invite her over


Him and Daisy would have never met again


Tom wouldn't have gotten mad about it


Daisy wouldn't have ran over Myrtle



Tom wouldn't have blame Gatsby



Gatsby wouldn't end up




F. Scott woulda had no story and die a broke ass, lame fukkboi one book wonder.

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

If he got over Daisy he wouldn't have moved to West Egg

He wouldn't have put his house right at the spot so Daisy could see the light every party


He wouldn't have gotten Nick to invite her over


Him and Daisy would have never met again


Tom wouldn't have gotten mad about it


Daisy wouldn't have ran over Myrtle



Tom wouldn't have blame Gatsby



Gatsby wouldn't end up




F. Scott woulda had no story and die a broke ass, lame fukkboi one book wonder.

Tragically enough F. Scott Fitzgerlad never experienced literary fame, sold very few copies and died believing he was a failure.

 

[Nobodyknows]

Because Daisy is

 

[mr x]

book/film has a some parallels to The Little Giant. Which I can see as it was made 8 yrs after the book.

Edward G. was king simp in that film

 

[Arris]

I'm a big fan of the book/movies but, that's just one thing that irks me.

Dude gets rejected by the love of his life (eventhough they only knew each other for a summer) for being unsuitable (poor) and he's so hurt by it, it motivates him to build his empire.

Dude goes on to make a fukk ton of money. And he still pines after the same girl from before I mean, it's so hard for me to suspend my realism. You really expect us to believe someone who's made $100 million, truly traveled and conquered the entire world and been exposed to the highest echelon of women that mega success can warrant would still be grieving over a high school crush I wish I would still be thinking about girls I dated from 17-22 if I hit the lottery or made billions. This is like some dot com billionaire wanting to marry the girl who rejected him in high school. You can't be serious.

she was responsible for him turning out like that though. you know how in successful marriages/pairings they say you bring the best out of me/you make me want to be a better man. well she brought him to his hugely successful status and he feels a woman like that is the absolute best.

at least thats my romanticized view. the more realistic reason is that maybe he placed her on a pedestal so high that his eventual achieved success was what he felt was on her level. crazy and delesional but plausible

 

[obarth]

Human emotion, breh

 

[Abstract83]

Yea i dont get that. A man can conquer everything money can buy except the upper class lonely thot that turns heel and keeps it moving once ur killed. Sadly simptry over p*ssy be getting us killed over dumb shyt.

 

[MalikReloaded]

Didn't you already do a similar thread like this?

it bombed though

 

[MalikReloaded]

It wasn't about Daisy at all, it was more about what she represented which was high society and the good life which he had never known. Daisy was the unattainable for him because he had ambition and he believed in himself but he had nothing in terms of money or prestige so when he met her and she bruised his ego and made him realize he wasn't anything special it hurt him psychologically. The idea was that if he was able to get Daisy he would finally prove to himself and society at large that he deserved to be looked upon as more than his circumstances but rather his abilities.


























Or you prescribe to the more appealing theory that he's a fukkin simp.

but couldn't he have just married a girl from an even higher place in society after he was wealthy to prove to himself that he "finally made it". it just feels unrealistic to me, given that im grown now, to be pining after someone from ten years ago. its the same reason the Notebook seems unrealistic. Noah dated a girl for 6 weeks (a blip in time) and still thinks about her 7-8 years later. Come on man. Maybe a year or two later he might've. They barely dated. Just like Gatsby and Daisy barely dated. In real life, he would have met other women and moved on. If anything Gatsby should have saw Daisy for the entitled, privileged slutbag she was after he was self made.