How Is Daisy Similar In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, and it gives us an insight into the gender roles of past WW1 America. Throughout the novel, women are portrayed in a very negative light. The author’s presentation of women is unflattering and unsympathetic. The women are not described with depth. When given their description, Fitzgerald appeals to their voice, “ she had a voice full of money”, their looks “her face was lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes, and a bright passionate mouth”, and the way in which they behave, “ ’They’re such beautiful shirts’ she sobbed”, rather than their feelings or emotions, for example, Daisy is incapable of genuine affection, however she is aimlessly flirtatious.

In "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he shows women, treated and presented as worse than men, and are rather disregarded and neglected by the male characters. Even Fitzgerald describes and creates the traits of the women in the book in a negative manner.

Calvin Jarrett from Ordinary People and Henry Drummond from Inherit the Wind both possess qualities that are similar to my own. These characters have traits that are the most similar to me. Calvin and I both share the fact that we are devoted with our families and honest with others. Drummond and I are both compassionate with others and we are both intelligent. Unlike Calvin, I do not have a serious issue with a family member and when it comes to Henry Drummond, I am not very crafty or sly.

“I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back, and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say: “Where’s Tom gone?” and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour, rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight. It was touching to see them together — it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way. That was in August. A week after I left Santa Barbara 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

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.

When someone comes off too eager for something they desire, sometimes the satisfaction won’t meet the expectations they primarily had. The thrill to chase that dream has vanished and has now turned into a bland, dull thought. Gatsby’s memory of Daisy had changed and then builds her up to more than she actually is. He then proceeds to market Daisy as something completely different. The tendency for Gatsby trying to lie to himself about his memory of Daisy has faded and is now trying hopelessly to revive his past feelings about Daisy. “He 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”(Fitzgerald 92). The cumbersome attitude of Gatsby towards

“How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!” Belva Plain, American author of mainstream fiction, believed society cannot be helped when they want something they cannot have. Gatsby, a respectable yet manipulative character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, loves Daisy and will go beyond what is normal to be with her. Through Gatsby’s decisions and social interactions, Fitzgerald agrees with the idea that desire can lead people into traps like netted birds.

On “Young and Beautiful” from “The Great Gatsby Official Soundtrack”, Lana Del Rey’s lyrics summarizes Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby’s relationship in The Great Gatsby. Lana sings “Hot summer nights mid July / When you and I were forever wild”; these lines depict a person reminiscing about a summer fling where both people were young, free-spirited and in love. Through Jordan’s account of Daisy and Gatsby in Louisville, it is self-evident that they are in a lustful summer fling. Jordan recalls, “They were so engrossed in each other that she didn’t see me until I was five feet away” (Fitzgerald 74). Neither Daisy nor Gatsby cared about what was happening in the world besides their conversation.

Ernest Hemmingway wrote this novel about the love affair of an ambulance driver and a nurse during the Great War. Frederic Henry narrates the story of his life from the first-person point of view. (Cain) F. Scott Fitzgerald also wrote a novel about a torrid love affair between Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Both of these novels ended tragically. The similarities and differences between these two women love affairs can be broken down into three categories; who they were as women, who they were in their relationship, and the tragedies they both experience.

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.

Daisy is an interesting and intriguing character in The Great Gatsby, her name literally means “day’s eye” which makes perfect sense because people are fascinated by her and she is described as a sweet woman, even though she acts and sounds more like a girl than a woman to me, but then again, she was the person to say that the best thing a girl can be is a beautiful fool.

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 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

n The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores how women are treated by society based on their social positions. Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson are women from completely different social classes but, as women, they are both treated as inferior persons in a patriarchal and class-conscious world. Daisy and Myrtle have limited autonomy, yet Daisy has certain advantages because she is wealthy, and her husband is successful. Myrtle, however, is not as fortunate as Daisy because she does not While there are different social expectations placed upon them, and they come from two different worlds, Daisy and Myrtle are both trapped by social expectations, financial positions, and gender relations. Daisy Buchanan comes from a rich family and is spoiled

Love is the greatest gift God could give to mankind. Its’ sole intention is to bring people together to a time called forever. However, love is the reason behind Daisy Buchanan and Clarissa Dalloway’s unhappiness in life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan is married to a man named Tom, but her heart belongs to a man named Gatsby. Similarly, in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Dalloway is in love with a man named Peter, however is married to a man named Richard. Both women give up their true love in order to marry a wealthy man, and subsequently live a life full of doubt.