Daisy has lived a life of luxury, so to see her cry over some shirts is very odd. There obviously are some subconscious feelings that Daisy has to make to cry ‘stormily.’ As soon as she met Gatsby for the first time in five years a lot of emotions and memories would have returned to her. The amount of emotions that she would have had to deal with and control, as she was in Gatsby’s and Nick’s presence could have pushed her to break down.
Daisy knows that she is the only reason of Gatsby’s happiness and excitement in that moment, without her presence Gatsby would not have any unreasonable joy. She knows how much she means to him, and maybe she knows that she will not be able to live up to the very high expectations that Gatsby has of everything, especially her but even his shirts as even she who has lived this life of luxury has ‘never seen such beautiful shirts’.
Gatsby could also be seen as messing up Daisy’s life, as the shirts could represent the many beautiful fixed factors of her life, which became unstable the minute she met Gatsby again. She knows there a chance that they would run away together meaning she would have to leave her old life (the shirts) behind. She would have leave the now ‘coloured disarray’ of her life behind. She knows she has to choose between the many people, her home and basically her whole life or choosea man who she used and still loves. Anyone would cry over a decision like that. Also she knows from that very moment her life will be different. Huge life changes causes a build-up of emotions good and bad and we are shown in a short period of time from Daisy the effect that these emotions have, which is basically crying over beautiful shirts.
No comments:
Post a Comment