Daisy In The Great Gatsby Chapter 1

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is set in New York
City and on Long Island in the early 1920s. If The Great Gatsby was interpreted by a Kazakh reader, the perspective on the characters of Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby would be different from that of an American reader due to cultural differences, which can influence the understanding of the novel. Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby are the main characters in the novel.
Tom is a wealthy man and Daisy’s husband. Tom is one of those people, who likes to take the matters into their own hands and order around. He is racist and is considered as a bully. In chapter 1 he talks about a book called The Rise of the Coloured Empires and that the whole idea of the book is that “if we don’t

Throughout the novel, she is confused about her feelings towards Tom and Gatsby and eventually cheats on her husband with Gatsby. Daisy also has a daughter, who she mentions several times throughout the whole novel, which demonstrates her relationship with her own daughter. She doesn’t care about her and even hoped for her to “be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” Kazakh reader can get confused while reading that sentence: “Why would she wish something bad for her own daughter? Why isn’t she hoping for her daughter to grow up not only beautiful but also as a smart woman?”. That would be due to the fact that in Kazakh people’s culture the relationship between a parent and a child is very strong. Most parents would put their children in the first place and everything else will come after that, even their own health. Whereas Americans can understand why she would say that, as a result of cultural differences between these two nationalities. They know more about the history and how women were treated back in the 1920s, which some Kazakh people might not know

He could reach his goal in the end by doing illegal business. Gatsby tries too hard to be like an “old money” person, by adding “old sport” when he talks with people. The fact that Gatsby “had never really accepted them as his parents at all” would have shocked Kazakh people, because a relationship between the parents and their children is one of the most important things in the culture. Kids are always respectful to their parents, even if they are not as well-off as the other people. One of the traditions in Kazakh’s culture is that the youngest child (a boy) in the family has to live with his parents and his wife in the future. Although those kids’ parents would eventually turn old, they would never leave them alone or at the nursing home, such action could be even considered as a crime, which proves how much people respect their own parents. American people wouldn’t have reacted this way since some of them leave their houses by the age of 18 to live independently and afterward, they wouldn’t contact their parents frequently. There are regular circumstances when they leave their parents in the nursing homes for the reason that they “interfere with their everyday