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Light vs Dark love Fitzgeralds The Great GatsbyThroughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, relationships developed and the inevitable happened. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby rekindled their love, or so it seemed. Daisy Buchanan has an unmistakable snarly quality about herself. Fitzgerald correlates Daisy with the sun because of this quality. Fitzgerald also correlates Gatsby with darkness. Darkness can not survive where there is light, therefore Daisys and Gatsbys love can not survive. Within the first three chapters of the novel Fitzgerald prepares the reader for the rest of the book by foreshadowing. One of the most memorable foreshadows in the beginning was when Daisy snapped out the compact disc after hearing Gatsbys name mentioned by Miss Baker. This is an important part in the book because Fitzgerald associates Daisys affections for Gatsby with sunlight. (Sutton) The snapping out of the light foreshadows that Daisys affections for Gatsby confound disappeared just as the light from the candle has. Due to the fact that Gatsby is correlated with darkness, he attempts to attract Daisy through a dazzling display of artificial light. When he throws his huge extravagant parties, his attempts show. Nick explains one of Gatsbys parties by saying there were enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsbys awful garden. (Fitzgerald 40) But, No matter how brightly his lights shine, he can not halt the passage of time as embodied in the changing of seasons. (Sutton) By the changing of seasons, from autumn to fall, mostly all light will cease to exist, so will Daisys love for Gatsby. Another attempt Gatsby tries to attract Daisys tending is in chapter five. The lights coming from Gatsbys house were ... ...ut the light. (Fitzgerald 147) That was a very important part in the plot due to the fact that her love for Gatsby is symbolized by light. once she turned off the light, it do it clear that she no longer has feelings for him. Nor will she ev er. Even more proof to show that they were not in love is when tom turkey goes to kill Gatsby. He succeeded. Nobody ever found out that Tom killed Gatsby. Daisy and Tom continued to live their life. Fitzgerald never stated if Daisy struggled with the fact that she practically killed devil people. Only can assume that she did not even care. Overall, Daisys and Gatsbys love was doomed from the start. Fitzgerald associates Daisys love for Gatsby with sunlight. From the start, Daisy had been putting out that sunlight. Fitzgerald also made it clear that their love would not survive when he choose to place the novels setting in autumn.