What Does Daisy Symbolize 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.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses numerous allusions in its story. The Great Gatsby is a novel that takes place in the summer of 1922, in New York City. It tells of a very wealthy Jay Gatsby, who’s believed to have earned his money in dishonest or illegal ways, and his endeavors to court Daisy Buchannon. Daisy is the wife a another very wealthy Tom Buchannon, and he gets in touch with her through Nick Carraway, a middleclass neighbor who narrates the story. There are many significant and clever allusions and representations in Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses white to portray innocence and class. This color is used several times while talking about Daisy. “She dressed in white and had a little white roadster” (Fitzgerald 4.74). This quote is used to convey Daisy during the innocence of her youth. The color white is pure and conveys her innocence.

“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.

She understands that society looks down upon the idea of new money and acquired wealth, which determines her decision to marry Tom instead of Gatsby, who perfectly exemplifies new money. After serving in World War I, Gatsby grew rich from a bootleg business. Similarly to the rest of society, Daisy disapproves of Gatsby’s method of acquiring wealth, which finally leads to her marrying Tom

Daisy Buchanan, from the novel,The Great Gatsby, exhibits similar character traits as I do. I believe that Daisy and I are similar because both of us are emotional and soft-hearted. Also, I feel that Dr. Berger, a character from Ordinary People, and I share traits that would include being understanding and helpful. Although I share similar aspects with these characters I also find myself being in contrast of their actions. Although Dr. Berger shares many traits with me, he is different in the way that he has twenty more years of experience understanding the world and helping people deal with their situations.

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.

Despite his best efforts, he ultimately fails to win her over due to the fair loss of her status and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby's reunion with Daisy marks the climax of his aspirations, but also the beginning of his confrontation with reality. Gatsby's disillusionment becomes evident during the confrontation at the Plaza Hotel, where Daisy is unable to renounce her marriage to Tom, despite Gatsby's expectations. This pivotal moment reveals the flaws in Gatsby's motivations. His belief that wealth and persistence could resurrect his past relationship with Daisy is dismantled, exposing the futility of his idealistic dreams.

Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite from each other at the kitchen table of their immense mansion. The room was radiating with stress. They stared at each other for a good couple minutes. Until tom opened his mouth and started saying… TOM (with a distress voice): Would you mind telling me what happen in car when you were with that murderer. DAISY: A murderer?

Daisy describes the day of her daughter’s birth. On this day, Daisy tells Nick that she felt abandoned because Tom was not beside her. When the nurse told her that the baby was a girl, Daisy cried and wept. Personally, she hoped that her baby girl would turn out to be a fool in the future because that’s the position rich women are expected to fill. Daisy’s position in society could also be inferred from the quote because she herself is a rich woman in a male dominated society, where only the looks and austerity of women are valued, oppose to intelligence and comprehension.

It’s a common misconception that money is equal to happiness, and Daisy is a sad, bored woman, afraid of the future. She is selfish and self centered, caring so much for the wealth that she believes will make her happy that in Chapter 7 her voice is said to be “full of money” (pg #). All the worse, when she kills Myrtle, she feels no remorse whatsoever, as she is incapable of caring for anyone but herself. Gatsby cannot see any of her bad qualities. He simply sees a beautiful young woman that he thinks he deserves. In chapter 8, Nick says that “It excited [Gatsby], too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes.”(pg#). Gatsby is blinded by his desire for Daisy, fueled by the wants of other men, that he sees nothing bad about her. Daisy loved Tom and Gatsby equally and for the same reason: Their wealth. With Gatsby dead Daisy returns to Tom not even shaken by his death, and just as nick says they would do, they retreat from the chaos they cause into their money when they move away.

In The Great Gatsby, Daisy is one of the most ambiguous and most disheartening characters presented by Fitzgerald. Even Though he made Daisy one of the most important roles for Gatsby most desiring possession to obtain, the whole ending exposes Daisy for what she really is. Besides her beauty and charmful appearance making the men go ballistic, she is narcissistic, empty, and an extremely pernicious person. Fitzgerald covers Daisy with a light, pure, and virtuous appearance. She played the role perfectly, however, she is the opposite from what she displays herself as.

Symbolism in the Great Gatsby Have you ever wondered the more in depth meaning of this story through symbolism? There are more meanings in this story that are color blind to the eye of the audience. Through my essay I will give you a clear meaning of several symbols that help the audience understand the story a little better. The setting of this story is the time period of the Great Depression.