Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

-Tom believes Daisy can’t make her own mind up “sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn’t know what she’s doing”

First, in the beginning of the book, when Daisy’s cousin Nick Carraway comes over for dinner since he just moved across the lake, Tom goes during the middle of their meal to answer the phone. When puzzled faces across all of the guests appear, Tom had to answer the phone because “work” was calling. Daisy had a very nervous face when Tom left and she excused herself from the table and went over to see exactly what Tom was talking about and that’s when she found out that he was cheating on her with Myrtle Wilson. But

Now that I can look back over my life I see that me and Daisy probably wouldn't have lasted long, even if she did leave Tom for me, as Tom was a spiteful man and he would have found a way to rip me and Daisy apart just as he had told George that something needed to be done about me. You see if me and Daisy had run away together, he would have hired someone to hunt me down and kill me. I did not see this man as being very dangerous when I was alive,

” Daisy is willing to divorce Tom, an act that was, at the time, considered majorly unacceptable. This willingness to divorce, paired with the fact that she originally married Tom for class and money’s sake, makes Daisy seem even more morally corrupt than her

Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car” (26). Because Tom is still married, he must hide his mistress, although the reader is led to believe that he does not love Daisy and may leave her for his mistress. However, Myrtle’s sister adds, “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in

Tom is unloyal to his wife, Daisy as he has cheated on her multiple times. In the novel, it shows that Tom starts cheating on Daisy only a few months after their marriage with a chambermaid. The chambermaid and Tom have gotten into a road incident and went on the newspaper: “Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken — she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel” (Fitzgerald 77). Which infers that Tom is cheating on Daisy with a chambermaid, as for why else would a chambermaid be alone with Tom in his car? Later, Tom hooks up with Myrtle and doesn’t feel ashamed of himself cheating on Daisy. He gets phone calls from Myrtle in front of Daisy’s face and he delightfully introduces Myrtle to Daisy’s cousin, Nick. Tom is not even making an effort of trying to hide his affair as he doesn’t feel that cheating on his wife is a disgraceful thing. He doesn’t care about Daisy’s feelings as she has to accept the fact that her husband

First, Tom and Daisy demonstrate their carelessness through their insensitiveness. When Tom is visiting his mistress, Myrtle, she taunts Tom by repeatedly saying “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!” (Fitzgerald, 39). This causes Tom to get aggravated and strike Myrtle in the face, breaking her nose. Tom physically abuses Myrtle and while he is under the influence of alcohol, he has the intent of hurting her, not caring if she gets injured. Tom also lies to Myrtle, telling her that he would marry her if is wife wasn’t Catholic. Tom does not care about the feelings of his mistress, seeing her as an object and not a human. Myrtle is nothing more than a way for Tom to feel powerful due to her low social status and insecurities. It is mentioned that Tom has cheated on Daisy before with a maid, further proving that Toms motive for having an affair is power. It also proves that Tom is not cheating on Daisy because he is bored, but because he does not truly love her or care for her. Tom’s lack of concern for those around him proves his insensitiveness and overall carelessness.

The paradox here is that Tom is, in a sense, George himself as Tom's wife, Daisy, is in the process of being taken away from him.

Before getting in the car, Tom argues with Daisy and Gatsby about the entire love triangle. Tom insists on driving Gatsby’s bright car with Daisy. Daisy chooses to go with Gatsby in Toms car. Out of rage, Tom drives fast and recklessly. The recklessness in Gatsby’s car foreshadows the later recklessness is the same car, but with Daisy at the wheel. Upon running low on gas, Tom reluctantly stops at the Wilson’s mechanic shop. Myrtle, from the window, sees Tom and miss sees Jordan as Tom’s wife, Daisy. Myrtle also takes note on the brightly coloured car which foreshadows her misunderstanding of who the car actually belongs to.

Tom and Daisy conspire and say that Gatsby was driving his car when Myrtle

This conversation between Daisy and Nick occurs shortly after Tom gets a phonecall from his mistress, which Daisy is completely aware about. She reminisces about the birth of her daughter, as Tom was most likely off with another mistress. Daisy wishes that her daughter would be a fool because Daisy knows that the only women that are happy in this society are fools. Daisy wishes that she herself was a fool, unaware of her husband’s affairs; then, in her belief, she would be content with her lavish lifestyle. Also, since Daisy is not a fool, she sees that her aristocratic lifestyle is empty. She explains how she’s seen everything and done everything, a comfort brought to her by her wealth, but ultimately that experience is meaningless. Daisy

Tom would like to think he was intelligent but Daisy uses basic language to convey that he is in fact not so. Daisy plays the "vapid" fool and the only thing she wishes her daughter be is a true "fool" "that's the best thing a girl can be in this world ", "best" implying that Daisy is disillusioned by the world and regrets having knowledge, she wants her daughter to be a "fool" because she believes it is the better option, it is what Daisy pretends to be. There is a sort of irony as daisy wishes her child to become like her but she cannot stand to be around the child unless she has reason to. "Your mother wanted to show you off" these quotations show

Tom disregards Daisy’s elegant beauty in exchange for the physical endeavors he craves with Myrtle. In doing so, he disrespects the value of both women as he objectifies them as toys at his disposal. This results in a negative relationship between Tom and Daisy. When Myrtle calls Tom at dinner, Daisy “suddenly … [throws] her napkin on the table and excuse[s] herself and [goes] into the house” (Fitzgerald 17). Daisy’s reaction to Myrtle’s call captures her frustration with Tom.

True to Nick's observation, Tom does act to take control back of what he believes is rightfully is, pressing Daisy into admitting she had loved him right in front of Gatsby to reassert his dominance over the two. This endeavor ends in success on Tom's part, Daisy turning to Gatsby and confessing, "I did love him [Tom] once—" (Fitzgerald 142). Daisy back in his grasp for now, he heads back home sometime after Gatsby and Daisy, only to come upon the accident that has left Myrtle dead. At this point, Tom is enraged, believing Gatsby to be the murderer of his mistress. In the heat of the moment, Tom has a word with George Wilson, the husband of Myrtle, claiming Gatsby to be the man who murdered Myrtle, knowing full well that George would more likely than not try to kill Gatsby. Tom admits this to Nick's face later on when the two meet again after the Buchanans left New York, stating, "I told him the truth... He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn’t told him who owned the car. His hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house——What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him" (Fitzgerald

When Tom claims that Daisy actually does love him, he suppresses her opinion by putting words in her mouth to aid his argument. Tom perceives the need that he must speak for his wife as if she can not speak for herself. Also, Tom claims that Daisy obtains “foolish ideas,” and that she “doesn’t know what she’s doing.” He implies that she is crazy and it is understandable that she fools around because of that. This reflects the misogynistic views men had towards women in this time period as they silenced women with their opinions to prove their