Daisy's Character In The Great Gatsby

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character of Daisy Buchanan undergoes many noticeable changes. Daisy is a symbol of wealth and of promises broken. She is a character we grow to feel sorry for but probably should not.

Gatsby’s meeting with daisy compared to his expectations of this meeting was not far off. In the begging they were both timid, at one point Gatsby got up and left daisy all only. But later in Gatsby’s house they warmed up to each other, they were admiring all of Gatsby’s belongings. By the end of the chapter they were holding hands and could be described as being in love with one another again. I don’t know what more Gatsby could want or expect because she is still married to tom. I’m shore his expectations were let down because everyone hopes for so much but little ever comes close. But I think that today expectations were as close as they will ever be.

The novel The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920’s when people started to change the way that they looked at things. The narrator Nick Carraway tells the story as he was living in a small cottage beside Jay Gatsby’s mansion. Daisy Buchanan is a woman who does not think she should be able to do anything but be a fool for love. Last but least is Jay Gatsby a man who no one really knows but wish they knew. Gatsby was a man who always thought Daisy belonged to him but in reality she was never his to begin with.

In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship is portrayed as obsessive, materialistic, and ineffective. Gatsby displays the quality of obsessiveness within the relationship by consuming himself with the desire to bring back the image of Daisy he fell in love with and his romance with her that had existed in the past. The intensity of Gatsby’s obsession is displayed when Gatsby invites Daisy and Nick over to his house. Nick observes that Gatsby “had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock” (Fitzgerald 92). Nick’s examination of Gatsby obsession reveals that Gatsby has had this intense

Daisy’s decision towards the end of the book was unpredictable; however, it did unravel her character more, and she became a little realistic in how the plot turned out. For example, in the novel, it states “It was all very care-less and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back…to let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (Page 179). This shows that in Nick’s perspective those two characters just blossomed their negative attributes, and I do agree with Nick’s predicament because I saw little hints of their behavior throughout the book. For example, in the literature, it also states “She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw” (Page 119). This demonstrates

Daisy, an innocent, pure girl with a luxurious life has her life suddenly turned upside down by her mysterious past. Daisy is surrounded by a white purity, but at the center is her lust for gold and wealth. Because of this lust, she exemplifies her selfish nature and materialistic values, caring only for herself and her prosperity. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan reveals her selfish nature and materialistic values symbolizing the true corruption in American society regarding the need for power and wealth.

When reading The Great Gatsby you may ask yourself what the theme might be but there really isn’t a specific one. Some people think that the theme is that the cause of things may cause other things kind of like a chain reaction but I don’t really agree nor disagree. I think that the actual theme for The Great Gatsby is that the desire for things may force people to change. Now at first it doesn’t really make sense but as soon as you read the book and really think about it makes sense. I have two main characters that I think fit the theme.

The color green is also used to represent the American Dream, the ideal way for Americans to live that promises prosperity and a place among those in the upper class, living the upper class lifestyle, but a lifestyle that is often thought of as unreachable due to the status, money, and often race that one must have in order to achieve it. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald often uses Nick’s judgmental voice to scrutinize the characters who appear throughout the novel. In particular, a person of interest to Nick was Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Nick was sure to note that she is not very wealthy although she acts as though she is well above her actual societal level. In essence, Myrtle acts as though she had married properly and achieved the American Dream, what seems to be her goal in life, when in actuality, she has not done anything like this. Myrtle married poor and continues to live a fake life, having an affair with Tom, Daisy’s husband, to pretend as though she is above where she actually is in society. After Daisy accidentally hits and kills Myrtle by running her over with a car and Myrtle’s husband speaks with the police, Nick remarks that “The “death car” as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop… he [Wilson] told the first policeman that it [the car] was light green.” By writing that it was not only Daisy that killed Myrtle, but Daisy in a green car, Fitzgerald invokes a sense of irony to exemplify the concept of green symbolizing an unattainable American Dream. He does this

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway about his time living in East Egg. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby. Gatsby loves Daisy Buchanan,however, she is already married to Tom. While driving Gatsby's car, Daisy gets into a car accident, killing Tom’s mistress, Myrtle. Gatsby takes the fault for Daisy, but he end up being shot and killed by Myrtle's husband.

“But I didn’t call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone- he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way... I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of the dock” (25-26). In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the narrator, offers his first observation about Jay Gatsby. Although Carraway did not know him well at the time, his first Gatsby moment truly revealed Gatsby’s purpose-to repeat the past and find his old love, Daisy who loved across the bay near the green light. Despite the geographical differences of East egg and West egg, the roaring twenties made Gatsby shine in a light of his own that others tried to reach for.

Daisy Buchanan is a rich and beautiful young woman who plays a huge role in the novel. In the past when she first met Gatsby, she fell in love with him and promised to wait for him. She ended up getting tired of waiting for him and broke that promise when she met a rich, strong man who came from old money who wanted to marry her. Tom, Daisy’s husband, is a masculine man who is full of himself and thinks he is better than others, but he is from her world. Gatsby is trapped in the past because of Daisy who he has idealized as his ultimate dream, as she represents everything he desires. He spends his days trying to please her and win her back from Tom Buchanan. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author uses symbolism through Daisy, a broken clock, and the eyes of T.J. Eckleberg to illustrate the breakdown of what we all strive for, the American

Life in the Roaring 20’s was a flurry of parties and money mostly made by illegal activities, such as bootlegging, since the Prohibition and Volstead Act were both in effect. This is the setting in which The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald took place. It offers a look into the life of the eccentric Jay Gatsby, the man known for his extravagant parties. There was one thing that money could never buy him though, and that was the love of his dream girl, Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby tells the story of hope, love, betrayal and death. Daisy Buchanan, the golden girl, lives a prosperous life in “old money” East Egg, while her past love Jay Gatsby lives across the bay in West Egg, the land of new money.

I find that at one point or another, we act as someone we are not in hopes of achieving something we believe to be out of reach. We tell ourselves that what we are doing is right to portray ourselves as ‘good people.’ The world created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, is an exact representation of the one that we live in, where it is made clear that there are only those who pursue, are pursued as well as the busy and tired. The not so great great Gatsby devotes his entire life and happiness to one woman he believed to be his ultimate source of happiness. When given the option to either pursue love or security, Daisy chose security as it was the easier decision.

Everyone becomes obsessed with something at some point. Perhabs it is a young boy who can't wait to get the next best video game, or maybe it is a girl who wants the next iPhone to satisfy her texting needs. There are virtually countless things to be obsessed with, and Jay Gatsby was no exception. Originally James (Jimmy) Gatz, Gatsby was was the son of a farming couple who had little money.

In 1920s America, women gained freedom and independence as they gained voting rights and access to a greater variety of jobs. At the same time lessening insistence on old-fashioned morals allowed women to go to parties, drinking and dancing and smoking as they chose. Unfortunately, this presence in the workforce and social freedom did not extend to married women. However, even with evolving gender norms, most women were still trapped in marriages that restricted their autonomy and never let them grow beyond the role of housewife (“American Women in the 1920s”) This is especially true in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as women deal with the unhappiness that comes with living with a controlling husband in a life with no alternate