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=Gatsby and Daisy: Instant Love Affair=



==="She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. All day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night. When I came opposite her house that morning her white roadster was bedside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before. They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me. The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me, I remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby." (__The Great Gatsby__, pg. 75)===

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===//Nighthawks// by Edward Hopper is a painting of two men and a lady in a diner called Phillies. This painting connects to the book __The Great Gatsby__ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In __The Great Gatsby__, Jay Gatsby comes back to find that the love of his life, Daisy, has married another man, Tom Buchanan. Jay, who has never seemed to get over Daisy, seems very alone and vulnerable, just like the man sitting alone at the diner in the painting. While Daisy is sitting at the other side of the diner with Tom, Gatsby dreams of a day when he and Daisy will be together. Though Daisy confesses her love for Gatsby, she cannot hide her love for Tom. Daisy feels torn by the situation, but in the end she ends up with Tom. //Nighthawks// represents Gatsby’s struggle to find himself and desire to win Daisy back.===



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