In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby goes from rags to riches and during his rise, he takes some people with him like Nick and Daisy. This leads Nick, Daisy, and Gatsby on an emotional, mental, and physical journey. Fitzgerald's character, Daisy, was created as a sweet girl with the intent of helping Nick out of the world and a traitor because it goes against romance. side that Fitzgerald created for her (Washington). Daisy enjoys being surrounded by masculine men, who move her away from a lower class life towards a higher status in society, which puts her in a position where she is unable to control who she is around or what she looks like physically (Washington ). She soon meets a man, Jay Gatsby, who also finds interest in her. Gatsby thinks Daisy is one of the best things he has ever heard (Fitzgerald 128). Gatsby has been very interested in her ever since he laid eyes on her. Daisy is the wife of Tom Buchanan, a man who has a similar class status to her (Roulston). Daisy was with Tom until she met Jay Gatsby and started to have feelings for him. James Gatz, who was once poor, transforms into Jay Gatsby, joins the army and becomes an officer, and later meets the love of his life, Daisy Fay (Roulston). Jay pursues Daisy despite knowing that the only way to please her is to have money so she can buy anything she wants (Callahan). Gatsby was poor and dissatisfied with what he had. Gatsby wanted more money and eventually got it. Determined to win over Daisy, Gatsby becomes a rich man, buys a large house on Long Island, on the bay, and almost convinces her to divorce Tom (Rouldston). Ironically, the image Gatsby portrays brings him close enough to Daisy to fool... middle of paper... tzgerald and James Baldwin. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. 35-54. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. vol. 157. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 16, 2014. Schiff, Jonathan. “Pain and otherness displaced in the Great Gatsby.” Ashes to Ashes: Mourning and Social Difference in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press, 2001. 100-117. Rpt. in Children's Literature Review. Ed. Jelena Kristovic. vol. 176. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 16, 2014.Szumskyj, Benjamin. “Are there echoes of Bloch and Fitzgerald in Ellis's American Psycho?” Notes on Contemporary Literature 37.2 (2007): 5. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 16, 2014. Fitzgerald, F.S. NP Network. 5 February 2014. .