In the scene where gatsby shows nick nd daisy his shirts why is daisy so emotional? Is it because she is seeing that the man she once loved and could not stay with because he had no money now has beautiful and expensive shirts, or it is just because she is amazed by his wealth, I mean ina materiaistic way.
shareIn some way, that is the point in the movie where either there is a turning point, a huge emotional release.
Before then, Gatsby was just building up to the big reunion - throwing parties hoping she'd show up, gathering wealth, obsessing. He doesn't know what's happening or going to happen. He is so focussed, he doesn't think about what happens after they meet.
Daisy has had a roller coaster day...so much to take in in one day, a big surprise.
When they get to the shirts, he perhaps realises all his wealth and possessions that he accummulated to impress her - they didn't matter, she still loves him as Jay Gatsby or Gatz, or as much as she allows herself to love anyone. The shirts and parties ...have no meaning now.
Like two people who are in love sees the skies bluer and the roses more fragrant , the shirts take on more beauty to both of them and are also useless at the same time.
She cries at the beauty and he throws them as they mean so much less now but were a symbol of his previous obsession.
My 2 cents
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Daisy did not want to be with Gatsby because he was poor. She loved him but rich girls don't marry poor boys as she stated.
going to Gatsby's house and seeing all those beautiful shirts that he gets BOUGHT FOR HIM in England makes her emotional because the present Gatsby is who she wanted. If she would have stayed with him, that is what she could have. But instead she moved on to Tom who she wasn't even sure she loved more than Gatsby. She made a foolish choice, and she missed out. That was the turning point when she realized it.
As "MoviesInTheBuff" stated, Daisy was releasing pent-up, overwhelming emotion. The emotion, I think, was the result of her realizing how unhappy she was in her current situation, what she could've had in place of it and the unfortunate timing for the two of them. However, it was only unfortunate because Daisy couldn't get past her prejudices and social programming as a girl; of course she couldn't have married Jay then. Had he been wealthy and she'd married him, it would've been enough of a rebellion--he wasn't from a well-known, prestigious familial line, afterall--but it was impossible for her to have ignored his lack of wealth. Daisy required the means to a certain lifestyle and would've eloped and evaded her family's wrath to be with Gatsby, as long as she was languidly and romantically pouting in someone else's estate and familial and societal reconciliation was still a possibility (sort of like how French aristocrats played at pastoral life in the 1700's).
Do you think Daisy could've handled living in a studio apartment in an unglamorous part of the city, scraping pork fat off the bone and making dinner for her blue-collar husband (watch "The Crowd", a silent film from the 20's that accurately depicted how most Americans lived during that time)? I don't think so. Daisy was crying into the shirts for Daisy and noone else, since Gatsby only existed in her mind in terms of what she wanted from him; she put him out of her mind quickly when he no longer could provide it, like following his death. She cried for the loss of her selfish (to be fair, she seemed blissfully unaware of her own selfishness) girlhood fantasies--she cried for the passing of her own romantic girlhood and Gatsby was the defining symbol of it. Gatsby and Daisy were sharing an "ancient" fantasy together; a little dream-place that belonged to the two of them, where celluloid suffering replaced the actual stuff, like how some people style suffering idealistically, before they experience the severe adversity that can accompany age and life experience(death of parents or children, poverty, terminal illness, war--obviously, there are young people who become "older" than their years by experiencing things usually reserved for mature age). Gatsby and Daisy were feeling--and sharing--the tragic, romantic nature of the moment.