In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby rises from rags to riches, and during his rise, he raises people such as Nick and Daisy with him. This leads Nick, Daisy, and Gatsby to experience an emotional, mental, and physical journey. Fitzgerald's character, Daisy, was created as a sweet girl with the intention of helping Nick get out of the world and a traitor because she goes against the romantic. side that Fitzgerald created for her (Washington). Daisy enjoys being surrounded by masculine men, who accompany her from a lower class life to a higher status in society, which puts her in a position where she is unable to control who she is or what she looks like physically (Washington). She soon meets a man, Jay Gatsby, who is also interested 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 having feelings for him. Once poverty-stricken James Gatz transforms into Jay Gatsby, joins the army and becomes an officer, then meets the love of his life, Daisy Fay (Roulston). Jay pursues Daisy while being aware that the only way to please her is to have money so she can buy whatever she wants (Callahan). Gatsby was poor and unhappy with what he had. Gatsby wanted more money and he finally managed to get it. Determined to try to get Daisy, Gatsby becomes a rich man, buys a large house on Long Island, above the bay, and almost divorces her from Tom (Rouldston). Ironically, the image of Gatsby that he portrays makes him close enough to Daisy to fool ...... middle of paper ...... tzgerald and James Baldwin. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. 35-54. Rep. in 20th century literary criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovsky. Flight. 157. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 16, 2014. Schiff, Jonathan. “Displaced mourning and otherness in The Great Gatsby.” Ashes to Ashes: Grief and Social Difference in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2001. 100-117. Rep. in Youth Literature Review. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Flight. 176. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 16, 2014. Szumskyj, Benjamin. “Are there echoes of Bloch and Fitzgerald in Ellis’ American Psycho?” Notes on Contemporary Literature 37.2 (2007): 5. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. January 16, 2014. Fitzgerald, F.S. No. Internet. February 5 2014. .