Analysis of Daisy Buchanan Daisy Buchanan, a selfish and self-centered beautiful woman. She’s known as a flapper. Flappers were basically the “whores” of the time who wore shorter skirts & danced freakishly. She is Nick Carraway’s second cousin, also the wife of Tom Buchanan but she once fell in love Jay Gatsby. Her choice between Tom and Gatsby is one of the biggest conflicts in this Novel.
Daisy may seem like she’s a good person but as we move into the book we notice that she’s manipulates Gatsby and when it's all said & done she’s the total opposite of what people think she is. She has a strong need for love, that being the main reason for her marrying Tom, instead of Gatsby. She didn't know if Gatsby was going to come back from Oxford and she did not want to wait for him any longer. Her sketchy behavior comes from her need to be loved and that's why she an overall fake and two-faced person.
When Nick visits he goes into a room finding her & Jordan Baker who is exactly like her because they both lie and cheat all the time! She looks like this beautiful pure little angel in all white when she’s really only pure in cheating and lying. Daisy is well aware that her husband cheats on her but she is obviously willing to
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“I hope she’ll be a fool” she said, “that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (17) by her saying that it shows that she most likely has some experience in being a “fool”. In chapter 7 when Daisy’s daughter shows her face for the first and only time, Daisy treats her like she’s not even her daughter by showing her off to guests, this shows that Daisy does not have any concern for her Pammy because all she cares about is herself. When Gatsby and Daisy reunite it seems that Daisy has found love, but really that is not what is going on. Knowing Tom has been having affairs for years she decides to has an affair of her