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Theme Of Conflict In The Great Gatsby
Daisy is a girl that has a brother with severe autism who cannot make the slightest peep in her house. She has a hard time trying to cope and not be afraid of him but it's hard not to. He does not speak, think or handle any minor situations. She's also falling in love with a bad boy and he is to. She is having difficult time letting go of her brother when her parents make the family splitting decision to send her brother to the Holland House, a house that helps kids with autism. She's decides to stop helping, stop tip toeing around her house and brother, stop trying, stop ignoring her crush on bad boy Dave, and to give up the love of her music. She let's everything go to help her on the inside and the outside. She forgives herself for being …show more content…
But she could not talk to him because of Steven. She had to take care of him, and not be away from the house very long. But when she started making bad choices and her brother starts to get restless she becomes closer to Dave but further away from her family. She stopped coming home at her curfew of three o'clock, and started to come home at seven. This change would affect her entire family, her brother would become even more abusive. This internal conflict, that Daisy's life is revolved around Steven, helps support the major conflict. Daisy is so cautious, that she can't do anything with her life until her family finds the solution that they have to send Steven away.
The climax of the novel comes when Daisy decides to let Steven go. At this point, the man vs man conflict that the novel had is over, Daisy had gotten over the grief, loneliness, and despair she felt when her family sent Steven away. When Daisy let Steven go, she was actually able to be happy and learn that she do everything she could not when Seven was in their home, which shows the resolution of the conflict in the novel. Daisy's decision to let her brother go ends to conflict and brings the novel to its

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