Daisy Vs Gatsby

I thoroughly enjoy the writing style of Fitzgerald, he does a wonderful job on adding subtle details to add more emotion and reality. Daisy is an intriguing character and I love the way Fitzgerald describes her. While Nick talked to his cousin, he noticed “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget” (9). ‘Bright’ is a repeating word in this sentence, Nick believes his cousin is a light and lively person men are attracted to. Nick uses the juxtaposition of ‘sad’ and ‘lovely’ to express what he sees in Daisy at that moment. He notices Daisy is a lovely woman with kind intentions; however, she

Daisy Buchanan, born Daisy Fay, is form a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. Popular and beautiful, she was courted by several officers during World War 1. She met and fell in love with Jay Gatsby, an officer at the time, and promised to wait for him to return from the war. However, she succumbed to pressure from her family and married Tom Buchanan instead. The next year, they had a baby girl together, Pammy. Although Daisy is happy immediately after she and Tom are married, he begins having affairs almost immediately after their honeymoon to the South Seas. By the time Pammy is born, Daisy has become rather pessimistic, saying that the best thing in the

Beauty in the great gatsby is a vital component to woman in the 1920’s shown through Daisy and Myrtle. Daisy symbolizes beauty as she is described as a captivating young woman who leads others on by acting naive and innocent. She uses her beauty to her advantages to live a glamorous life that she wants to live. She attracts wealthy men with her beauty to do such. Fitzgerald states, “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes, and a bright passionate mouth…” (Fitzgerald 14) Daisy is a part of the American Dream and she captures the attention of men with her beauty and nativity she portrays the american dream as always having a happy ending. In the article, Literary criticism it states “The book 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald was an 'icon of its time. The novel is 'an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period of history. The main themes in the book are the decay of morals and values and the frustration of a 'modern' society. The Great Gatsby describes the decay of the American Dream and the want for money

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson have many similarities and many differences. Both women are unhappy with their lives, both are greedy, but both women live very different lives. Both Myrtle and Daisy are unhappy with their lives and try to escape from them. Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson are also very greedy people in similar, but also in different ways. These women do whatever they want at the risk of their own lives as well as other people’s lives. Nick states, “They were careless people…” (Fitzgerald 179). The lives of Daisy and Myrtle are at the same time very different, almost opposite, even. Daisy and Myrtle are both selfish people who do not care about how they are affecting others,

The Great Gatsby has many different characters who all have very different traits and personalities. Myrtle’s character is very snobby, not too bright, and seems to get into abusive relationships, likely because of the attraction she has to dominant men. Myrtle is married to a man named George Wilson and is also Tom Buchanan’s mistress. She lives in a place called “Valley of Ashes” and belongs to the lower class, even though she acts as if she is better than them and is not one of them herself. Myrtle is also known as being a fool because of all the things she falls for and believes.

One of the main characters in the Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan was a charming woman who was visually pleasing to men. She was married to Tom, a rich and powerful man, for his money. Tom and Gatsby are at Tom's house, when they both express a certain feeling that her voice brings upon them.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald use the characters of Gatsby and Myrtle to show how the

Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays women in a light that does not follow this ideology. The characters contain viewpoints that showcase how during that era women were thought to be lesser than men. Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, the job and attitudes of women were determined by men not the women themselves. We see this in the several different aspects. These aspects include: Daisy's hopes and wishes for her daughter, Myrtle's death and cadaver, and the stereotypes that surrounded Jordan Baker's career and physical appearance.

Women were not thought of as independent, thinking creatures who contributed to the greater good of society. Instead they were relegated to the role of domesticated objects to be used as men pleased. Daisy and Myrtle are prime examples of this because they live in a shallow world where only material possessions are important, and the means justifies the end in order to obtain or retain those possessions (possessions that are provided by men). Jordan is not the traditional woman, however she still exhibits the same shallow characteristics. The novel suggests that Fitzgerald was aware of changes in women’s role, in the post-war period, but viewed them with mixed feelings. He uses the female characters to show the role that men played during the

The 1920’s was the first wave of feminism, and it has been a problem throughout the United States since then, however in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald purposely overlooks it perhaps due to his personal experience with women who weren’t the best to him. Feminism refers to “a series of political (series of actions to reach goals) for good changes on issues such as (rights of people to have children as they choose), domestic violence, motherhood leave, equal pay, women's right to vote, (unwanted repeated sex-related comments, requests, bullying, etc.), and sexual violence”. In this case the marginalization upon women is symbolized indirectly and reveals the impurity about women throughout the novel. Daisy and Myrtle were treated like literal animals throughout the novel and there was actual symbolism that furthered that idea. Daisy Buchannan is the main female character, having a romantic relationship with both Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Myrtle Wilson is a woman who is married to a hardworking man ,George Wilson, but she remained unfaithful throughout the whole novel. Lastly, Jordan Baker is probably the least mentioned woman but had an equally important role as the other few. Fitzgerald used the development of these three women to further the plot and theme of the book and show the treatment and role of women in that society at that time. Both Daisy and Myrtle were seen as gold diggers, having all their attention focused on material possessions and basing their love off of

Daisy is a symbol of wealth herself and normally attracts and is attracted to men of similar status. Daisy Buchanan was born into wealth and lived among money for her entire life. With this wealth came enormous privilege when it came to everyday life. When Gatsby first met Daisy he was in the army and was stationed in Louisville, Kentucky as an

Catherine Barkley is a young nurse working at a hospital on the front lines of the war. Nursing is a profession that takes skill and compassion. She was a brave woman because it takes true strength to see and take care of the brutal injuries that soldiers suffer with as casualties of war. Catherine was previously engaged to another soldier who was killed in action. Which means that she was mature enough to know what love is and that she was ready for marriage. She meets Frederic in Gorizia, Italy at the hospital she works in. Daisy Buchanan is what they call a socialite. She is wealthy, active in the community she lives in, and a debutante. Daisy is married to Tom and they have a daughter together. When we meet Daisy in the story she is not happy and she seems to be complacent with the difficulties she has in her marriage. Her dear friend Nick even notices the problems and says, “It

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.” (p. 6).In the novel,The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is one protagonist in the story. People have various opinions about what kind of person he is or what he is said to be. The opinions range from him killing someone to him being a German spy.

In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle is given no respect and is being treated like an object. This happened in the chapter 2 when Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to party in a hotel in New York with others. Later in the party Myrtle and Tom comes out of a room arguing about Daisy.“Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing, in impassioned voices, whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name. I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! And Da-” Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” This quote explains how women like myrtle are being abused by Tom and he is treating her like an object despite not having a healthy relationship. This paragraph is important because it talks about how in F. Scott’s novel The Great Gatsby Myrtle is given no respect and is being treated like an object despite being a women.

In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan is a perplexing character. She is charming and pretty, yet her personality is almost robotic. Daisy has no sincere emotions; she only knows social graces and self-preservation. A materialistic society makes Daisy a jaded person who lacks any real depth.