Sophia Diep . Mrs. Ploeger . English 3, P. 6. 8 March 2017.

Gatsby’s tragic flaw is believing his ideal life with Daisy can become his real life. Explaining how Gatsby has turned his life around, Nick Gillespie writes “James Gatz, a poor kid from the Midwest, reinvents himself with the help of bootleggers as Jay Gatsby” (1). Gatsby believes he can win Daisy back after being separated for many years. As Gatsby and Daisy meet again and start to spend time together, Gatsby is blinded by how different Daisy acts and how she is now. He is stuck in this idealism that Daisy will leave Tom for him. In chapter 7, Gatsby tells Tom “she only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me.” (Fitzgerald). Gatsby is so unaware of how caught up he is in his dream of Daisy leaving Tom for a life with Gatsby.

Even though Daisy knew Tom was cheating on her, she didn’t act like it bothered her that much. She wanted to keep her marital status. Daisy knew about Myrtle Wilson. She knew that everyone else also knew about Tom and Myrtle, but she didn’t let anyone ruin her marriage. Daisy could’ve easily had anyone she wanted. She could’ve had a better life with someone that pays all their attention to her, not someone else. She would’ve rather been considered a fool than be a

In the story of The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed to be innocent, good and pure. When the story first introduces Daisy she is in her house laying on the sofa in a white dress. The color white symbolizes innocence, purity, and goodness. As the story goes on Daisy is mentioned to wear many white things, to again display purity and innocence, but she also makes the reader think she is innocent and pure because of how she talks to other characters and her emotions towards certain characters. At the end of the story you will discover just because she wears white does not mean she is innocent and pure.

Fitzgerald has perhaps selected the colour white due to the connotations during this era, with the colour white indicating wealth and so immediately we are lead to believe that Daisy is a perhaps wealthy character if she is to posses white clothing. We are lead to believe that those who wear white and can maintain their clothes in pristine white condition aren’t those who bore on doing hard labour

When Daisy is reunited with Jay Gatsby one sees a different side to the woman. She seems more alive and happier than ever. Daisy actually has something to look forward to each day, instead of her usual routine. As her affair with Gatsby continues, Daisy becomes more and more

Therefore, color is a very prominent aspect of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Daisy is most often associated

It is as though she uses that as an excuse for when she does something ridiculous or childish, making it seem like she does not know any better. In reality, she knows exactly what she does but just does not care. She uses this "princess" image and her money to hide her biased, snobbish, and conceited view of herself and her lifestyle. As from the text, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together" (187-188), which further portrays Daisy as a character who does not fit the role of "white" in the novel; she is an anti-heroine of sorts.

Tom Buchanan has the one thing Gatsby wants most in life, Daisy. Gatsby has been jealous of Tom since he returned from the war and found Daisy wed. When Daisy admits, “[even] alone I can’t say I never loved Tom” (159). This breaks Gatsby’s heart because his fantasy that Daisy never loved Tom has been false. Causing Gatsby to become more jealous and that night ends with a massive quarrel between the two and Myrtle’s death. Tom dislikes Gatsby from the moment the two meet. When tom and Daisy are leaving Gatsby’s party he rudely asks, “who is this Gatsby anyhow?” (130). Tom saw how Gatsby and his wife interacted and is not impressed. Tom is attempting to find a negative or unattractive aspect of Gatsby to uninterested Daisy.

In an article Brian Sutton wrote that Daisy and Gatsby’s rendezvous “marks Gatsby’s brief moment of triumph.”(Sutton)He reintroduced the two lovers and helped the two hide their love. While on an excursion, Gatsby pressures Daisy into telling Tom, Daisy’s husband, about their affair. Daisy, with Gatsby’s help, forces herself to say she never loved Tom. It is at this point, Sutton points out, Gatsby realizes Daisy is not completely committed to him because when she is talking to Tom “the trembling signifies Daisy’s discomfort as she realizes that she lacks the emotional clarity and fortitude to leave her husband in favor of Gatsby.”(Sutton) On the way home, Daisy hits Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress, while driving Gatsby’s car. Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy, and she lets him. After the accident Daisy and Tom leave, not telling anyone where they are going. Before they leave, Tom

Gatsby has been at work for Daisy ever since he met her, but in the end Daisy always chose her husband and not her lover. He would always try to win her over with expensive things. This quote describes perfectly what Gatsby was doing, “ his goal is galvanized for him early on when was a poor young army lieutenant he is prevented from pursuing a relationship with Daisy.” Gatsby still trying his best efforts sent a love letter to Daisy on her wedding night. Daisy opened the letter, she loved it but knew she had to marry Tom. When Gatsby is killed, Daisy forgets all about him and moves on with her life. This quote describes Daisy and Gatsby 's relationship. “ Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her.” When Daisy finally is won over by Jay Gatsby he dies and Daisy immediately runs back to Tom just as she always has done in the past.

Daisy, like her husband, is a girl of material and class at heart, and Gatsby being her escape from a hierarchist world. Daisy has just grown up knowing wealth, so in her greedy pursuit of happiness and the “American Dream” Myrtle Wilson died, Gatsby's heart and life were compromised, without claiming responsibility on her part. Daisy was “by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville...” (116) Jordan says, describing early affections between Daisy and Gatsby. She goes on to say, “...all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night.” (116) . Daisy was a fancied girl who has Gatsby tied around her finger, Jordan explains that he was looking at Daisy “...in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time...” (117). Daisy, abusing Gatsby’s love for her uses it to create security and protection, greedily and selfishly allowing him to take the fault. While Daisy’s beautiful, alluring traits turn her into an innocent, naive flower, she plays the ultimate villain.

Tom takes advantage of this situation and manipulates Daisy to completely depend on him. Daisy has spent her whole life being used to someone telling her what to do, and her relationship with Tom is no different. Even right after they got married, “If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily and say: ‘‘Where’s Tom gone?’ and wear the most abstract expression until she saw him coming in the door” (77). Daisy relies solely on Tom and is “uneasy” without him around. Her dependence on Tom reflects not only his hyper masculinity, but how little he cares about Daisy. Despite this, he knows Daisy will never leave him, and pushes their marriage to the brink by having multiple affairs.

Tom drained Daisy of all her independence the instant they tied the knot and agreed to conform to a typical marriage. He takes advantage of this situation and not only abuses his control over Daisy, but manipulates her to completely depend on him. Daisy has always been used to someone telling her what to do, and her relationship with Tom is no different. She is not a whole person without him to the point where even, “If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily and say: ‘‘Where’s Tom gone?’ and wear the most abstract expression until she

As Daisy becomes older, society pressures her to think a certain way. Eventually the pressure to become perfect makes her fickle and uncaring for everything but money and status. When Daisy and Gatsby reunite, it is awkward up until he shows her everything he owns now. When Gatsby shows her his expensive English shirts, Daisy begins to cry. She

It also shows that Gatsby was a romantic person who was willing to do even the simplest of things to make sure Daisy knew that his love was genuine. Similarly on the night of Daisy’s wedding, Daisy cries, “Take ‘em downstairs... Say: Daisy’s change’ her mind” (66). Daisy reconsiders her marriage to Tom and is willing to put it off in order to be with Gatsby. This means that Daisy’s love for Gatsby must be extremely genuine in order for her to be able to even consider cancelling her marriage to Tom. Having said that, Daisy eventually marries Tom, because she realises that Gatsby cannot support her to the same extent as Tom. Provided that, when Daisy meets Gatsby five years later, she realises how much she really loved Gatsby and begins to spend a great deal of time with