Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Daisy Buchanan is one of several characters in the book The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Daisy is a cousin of the character Nick Carraway, whose point of view the entire book is written in. She comes from old money, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, is also rich. The Buchanan’s lived in Chicago for a time, before they moved to the East Egg, where all the old money lived, rather than the East egg. The East Egg was the poorer side of town, or housed people who were rich, but were new money; such as Jay Gatsby. Daisy Buchanan is best described as an extremely shallow and selfish person. These characteristics of Daisy aren’t immediately evident in the book; though she does begin to show her true colors once Jay Gatsby really enters the story. Nick describes Daisy directly several times

She leads Gatsby to believe that they are going to runaway together, and that she wants to be with him, and she may want to, deep down. But she is too selfish to make an immediate decision, and ends up choosing to stay with her abusive husband, Tom, rather than run away with Gatsby. The reason Gatsby felt so strongly about Daisy is because he had fallen in love with her previously. Gatsby and Daisy met several years before the book took place, and fell in love. Daisy lived in Louisville at the time, and was very popular with the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. An example of how shallow Daisy is: Gatsby felt the need to lie about his background and tell Daisy that he was rich in order for her to like him. They ‘fell in love’ and Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy even promised to wait for Gatsby, but instead she chose to marry Tom Buchanan. This could be considered to be indirect characterization because of the decision she made. Rather than wait for her ‘love’, she chose to break her promise and selfishly go the easy