Daisy Buchanan The Great Gatsby

Daisy’s reactions to certain events show how she makes decisions based off of what will give her the most money, rather than what will be the best option for her. Daisy was in love with Gatsby, but he was poor and he had to go to war, so she decided to wait for him. However, it took too long for him to return, so Daisy got impatient, and she married Tom instead. Tom was rich, and Daisy knew he would bring her an old money status. When Gatsby finally meets with Daisy again, she sees how rich he is and she regrets her decison to marry Tom. Gatsby shows her his house, and his fancy shirts, which makes Daisy say that “They’re such beautiful shirts… It makes me sad because

Throughout the novel Fitzgerald shows that Daisy is self-centered and careless at heart; she is a dreamer who fails to face reality. Continuing an affair with Gatsby with no real intentions of leaving her husband eventually leads to the death of Gatsby. In return she shows little to no concerns over the death of her “love” Gatsby and returns into the arms of her corrupt husband. Tom, who is also unfaithful in their relationship has a mistress of his own who is killed in a car accident while Daisy was driving. Tom as well shows no remorse in her death and moves on like nothing ever happened. Daisy and Tom are the prime example of corruption in both material success and with what wealth can bring; “They instinctively seek out each other because each recognizes the other’s strength in the corrupt

He portrays that they only loved each other for the money they had to offer. Their marriage was based on their class type, and not what their love means to each other. Since they were both wealthy, Daisy considered of marrying Tom, since they were both in the same class. She had a love interest for Gatsby, but Gatsby was poor. This lead Daisy to fall for Tom. Gatsby did everything, including illegal activities, to regain Daisy’s love. However, Daisy still loved Gatsby, but was impatient to wait for him to become a wealthy

Daisy is a vain lady. She marries Tom for money and status, and turns her back on true love and happiness, which is represented by Gatsby. Her American Dream is to enjoy a luxurious and comfortable life given to her by, hopefully a man who truly loves her, and whom she also loves. The corruption of her human values begins when she decides not to wait anymore for Gatsby, her real love, but to take the opportunity that Tom Buchanan offers, which are money and status. Her choices reveal her vain and superficial nature hidden beneath her beautiful and innocent look. When Gatsby returns with wealth and status in order

In FSF’s novel the Great Gatsby Nick Carraway’s perspective is poetic, paced and arguably reliable. For example, when he is retelling his first encounter with Daisy Buchanan after many years, his description of her and the room she is in is reminiscient of an angel in the heavens both “sad and lovely” (9). His tone changes, however, as the novel goes on and grows more pessimistic by the page. In the end, his description of Daisy is of disgust and almost pity, “they were careless…” (179). According to Mathew B, “the strongest feeling generated…” The horrible reality of a carefree life that is exhibited so thoroughly be Daisy and Tom in the end is in stark contrast to the desired and glamourous world in which they appear to exist. We hear this regret in Nick’s narration. Nowlin sums up Nick’s voice perfectly when he states, “but…” (28). Nick narrates from a future we know nothing about, unlike the narration of BR his story is tainted somewhat with retrospect. The narrators of both F’s writings operate within equally significant and different eras.

It’s a common misconception that money is equal to happiness, and Daisy is a sad, bored woman, afraid of the future. She is selfish and self centered, caring so much for the wealth that she believes will make her happy that in Chapter 7 her voice is said to be “full of money” (pg #). All the worse, when she kills Myrtle, she feels no remorse whatsoever, as she is incapable of caring for anyone but herself. Gatsby cannot see any of her bad qualities. He simply sees a beautiful young woman that he thinks he deserves. In chapter 8, Nick says that “It excited [Gatsby], too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes.”(pg#). Gatsby is blinded by his desire for Daisy, fueled by the wants of other men, that he sees nothing bad about her. Daisy loved Tom and Gatsby equally and for the same reason: Their wealth. With Gatsby dead Daisy returns to Tom not even shaken by his death, and just as nick says they would do, they retreat from the chaos they cause into their money when they move away.

The theme at the heart of the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald lies in the doomed relationship between the protagonist, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the friend of Gatsby’s whom Gatsby finally confides in at the most tragic moment of his life, the story unfolds against the backdrop of the roaring 20’s.

Daisy stuck with Tom through years of his cheating, and when Nick invited her and Gatsby over so they could meet again, she had another chance. Gatsby did everything he could to become rich and to find Daisy. This meant that Daisy had everything she could have wanted. She had a man who loved her, who was wealthy, and all she had to do was end her marriage with Tom. What Gatsby had was new money, and Tom had old money. “What Daisy requires is not only money but old money. Old money is better than new, not because it can somehow buy more or because they will be more of it, but because it has fashioned the tastes, values, attitudes, matters, and intellects others possessors.”(Lathbury 59). Something about the old money was more valuable and appealing to Daisy, so she gave up Gatsby to be with Tom.

Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury, all things a rich Southern Belle grows up with.  After her marriage to Tom, she is whisked away to the east, the symbol of 'old money' and corruption of America.  Here she becomes more comfortable in she and her husband's abundant assets and allows the corruption of the east to take her over- she becomes reckless and even more materialistic.  She treats her own daughter as nothing more than an object to show off and treats Gatsby, the man who dedicated his life to seeking her out, as if he had never existed.  The combination of the Southern Belle stereotype along with that of the corrupt Rich Easterner creates the perfect portrait of Daisy Buchanan.

Tom Buchanan is married to Daisy and has been wealthy his whole life. He has never had to worry about consequences for his actions. He is described as "one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savors of anti-climax" (Fitzgerald 6). Not only is Tom arrogant, he also doesn’t care for Daisy the way he should. Instead he has a mistress in New York that he even introduces Nick to. Tom thinks he can get whatever he wants without consequences. His anger plays a large role in the novel to show just how careless he really is. He also thinks that since Gatsby is nouveax riches that he is better than Gatsby is, he doubts Gatsby’s intelligence, “An oxford man! Like hell he is!”(Fitzgerald 122). His anger triggers the events that lead to the tragedy that takes place later that day which results in Daisy hitting his mistress while trying to get away from Tom’s raging anger.

In The Great Gatsby there is a girl named Daisy who is married to a man named Tom, but only for money. Daisy doesn’t love Tom because of all the cheating he does and all the lies he tell. She did love him at one point, but after he started lying and cheating, everything went downhill. After everything went downhill, it all became about the money. Daisy is in love with Gatsby, but doesn’t know where he is and thinks he is poor so stays with Tom.

This quote is the start of Jordan’s story that summarizes the history between Daisy and Gatsby, which leads to Gatsby’s request for tea with Daisy at Nick’s home. The, “little white roadster,” further describes Daisy as a rich, somewhat innocent girl. However, Jordan goes on to describe how she was plagued with invitations to date officers from the nearby military base. Jordan is confirming to the readers that Daisy’s life has always been one of privilege, where she is courted by numerous men. Her teenage car matches up very well with the image developed of her in her current age. As a teen, she is extremely feminine, flirty, and seems to have her fun with people in the military. Throughout describing Daisy’s teenage years, Jordan reveals somewhat

     Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a fascinating work that details the corruptive influence of greed. The main character is a man named Gatsby. The two main female characters are Daisy and Myrtle. These two women provide an interesting contrast while complementing each other at the same time. Daisy is living a life of luxury while Myrtle is struggling to make ends meet. They both play major roles in the novel, and, although their intentions seem pure and promising enough, they both are doomed to succumb to greed which causes eventual death.

Though the Baz Luhrmann does a good job at depicting the The Great Gatsby; some scenes better than others, he got Daisy’s demeanor all wrong. As F. Scott Fitzgerald writes in the novel, “Please don’t,’ she interrupted helplessly.” (Fitzgerald, 130) Daisy is desperate not a damsel in distress. The movie depicts her as a young ignorant woman with tears streaming down her face all through the cinematic scene. “Oh please don’t!” she exclaims in the movie with tears streaming down her face as her trembling hands try to light a cigarette. In the book she has a better hold on herself. The novel makes Daisy appear as if she is a much stronger woman than she is in the movie. Not to say that Daisy is a smart refined character by any means, she seems

Daisy Buchanan manages to corrupt her American Dream by sacrificing people she loves for materialist desires. She sacrificed her happiness and the love for the man she supposedly adored, Gatsby, for someone with more wealth, Tom. Daisy’s true self and greedy intentions are shown at the beginning of the novel when she describes to Nick and Jordan what she hopes for her infant daughter; “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (Fitzgerald