Daisy Buchanan Biography

The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a wonderful book that portrays the love life of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan through Nick Carraway’s perspective in the early 1920s. The 1920s is the Jazz Age which is seen as a celebration of the end of World War I with up-beat music and dancing. It ended when the Great Depression started in 1929 (“Boundless US History.”). The Jazz Age was created by African Americans, but both white Americans and black American are responsible for the popularity. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a short story writer and a novelist most commonly known for his book, The Great Gatsby (“Boundless US History”). Fitzgerald’s short stories and novels are known for the 1920’s time frame and his romantic imagination. Daisy Buchanan, whose life is being told by Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, is a woman who is more worried about where she stands in social class than focusing on what truly makes

She portrays the characteristic of being innocent and not understanding that her husband, Tom Buchanan, is having an affair with a girl named Myrtle. In the movie Daisy has short dark hair, and a thin body figure. Although Fitzgerald does not go into too much detail about how Daisy looks in the book, he goes into detail about the house she lives in. The house Daisy lives in reflects her personality; grand and beautiful but what really matters is her family. It happens to be on East Egg, the richer part of Long Island; it is a “cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion” that overlooks the water between West Egg and East Egg (Fitzgerald). “The backyard started at the end of the beach where the sand meets the grass and runs for a quarter of a mile until it hits the house” (Fitzgerald). She has a dock with a green light at the end. Right across the bay from her house is Gatsby’s mansion