Why Was Young Gatsby Drawn To Daisy?

Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful young woman who was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She's Nick's cousin and Jay Gatsby's love interest. Back in the 1920's when World War I was about to start Daisy was being admired by many of the officers posted near her home, including Gatsby. Gatsby mislead Daisy about his past, and claimed to come from a wealthy background in order to convince her that he was deserving of her love. Gatsby won Daisy's heart, and they were madly in love until Gatsby left to fight the war. Daisy vowed to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 she decided rather to marry Tom Buchanan, a young man from a powerful, upper class family who could give her the rich lifestyle that she always wanted.
Gatsby has reinvented himself to try and win back the love of Daisy Buchanan. Much of the book is centered around Gatsby and his attempt to get Daisy to fall in love with him again even though she is now married. He forms an emotional connection to his idealization of Daisy, who ultimately “tumbled short of his dreams . . . because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way” (Fitzgerald 95-96). Gatsby’s perception of Daisy has exceeded her realistic attributes and actions, he no longer sees her for who she truly is, only the glimmering hope that she brings and dreams she induces. Gatsby places Daisy on an unattainable pedestal because he hopes that when he can attain her, if he can attain her, he will have proved himself worthy of not only her affection. Realistically, Gatsby’s romanticism isn't a symbol of his undying love for Daisy, but an attempt to live up to his own expectations and regulate the unknowable in accordance with a knowable past.
The Great Gatsby incites glorified feelings that lead the reader to believe the character Daisy Buchanan is a kind of ideal perfection when she does not possess nor deserve that position which is clearly depicted in specific sections of the text.