Daisy Buchanan And Jay Gatsby Selfish

Daisy Buchanan, the love interest of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby shows her careless actions that affect her and the ones she loves. Daisy appears to be a self-centered, dishonest, and materialistic girl. Her careless actions are toward the two men in her life: Tom Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby. Tom Buchanan is the husband of Daisy who had an affair with a woman named Myrtle, who was the wife of one of Tom’s buddies. Jay Gatsby was a former lover of Daisy back before Tom. Daisy shows some actions which people may call “shady” or “shadowy.” A shadowy personality is someone who is very secretive, not honest, and very sneaky. Daisy shows some of these actions with Tom and Nick. She goes behind Tom’s back to go have an affair with Gatsby,

Jay Gatsby who was a lover of Daisys before Tom, Gatsby is a close friend of Nick’s throughout the summer. Gatsby sees Daisy as the girl he fell in love with five years ago, and Daisy is in fact not that girl anymore. When they were lovers Gatsby was a poor boy while Daisy was a rich, and privileged girl. “Rich girls can’t marry poor boys.” This quote has often been used around royal familys especially or familys who will not accept someone with a lower income then them. This is something Gatsby took seriously within those five years to prove her wrong. In this context, Daisy’s family didn’t accept the fact that Gatsby was a poor boy wanting to marry their daughter that had wealth. From this, Daisy split and found herself Tom. Tom was a rich man who came from a very wealthy and athletic family. He was a perfect candidate for Daisy’s future life

As we see Daisy develop throughout the story and learn more about the inside parts of her life, we see her develop into a more depressed girl. From the moment of the affair, to finding out Gatsby is back in town wanting her. She develops the shadowy personality that goes behind Tom’s back. Not only going to be Tom’s back but continuing to still be with Tom after knowing he's having an affair. Knowing he is having an affair causes her to develop mental struggles that continue in the story towards Nick, Gatsby, and Jordan. Although they might not seem clear to some people, Daisy shows that her personality slowly changes and her happiness starts to degrade as the story