Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

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A woman who is in love with two men that are both equally wealthy, who does she end up choosing? Citizens in modern-day America think the only possible way for them to experience happiness is to be very wealthy. Daisy Buchanan shows readers of what modern-day people think about having in their life. From F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan reveals that the only way to find happiness is within money, even if that means making a lot of wrong decisions, which is even more true in modern-day America. One moment when Daisy Buchanan is showing that she is choosing money is when she is at Gatsby’s for the first time. Daisy and Nick had been invited over to Gatsby’s after their tea party. When they go into Gatsby’s room, he starts …show more content…

I have had an experience myself when I thought that money could change everything. I had thought that maybe if I had more money I could have a lot of things that I wanted that I thought would make me happy. Just like Daisy, she thought that she can be happy with all of these materialistic items that Tom was buying her. Now people seem to think that the only way they can be happy is if they have a lot of money. Materialistic things only last for so long before you might get bored with it or it is no longer useful to you. For that moment when you first get it of course you may be happy but that happiness and excitement dies down a lot each and every single day. In a way I can see where Daisy is coming from, all of the things that Tom has bought her feels good, but deep down there will always be something that is …show more content…

Scott FItzgerald’s message throughout The Great Gatsby expresses that money will always hold a higher value in life than someone’s happiness. Daisy and Gatsby finally see each other after many years of being separated. Gatsby has Nick and Daisy come over which then he proceeds to lead them to his room where he starts throwing shirts at her. She starts crying over the “beautiful shirts”, but it has a double meaning under that. As Daisy is shown more throughout the book, she shows us how she cherishes money more than her own happiness. Tom doesn’t treat her the best, but Gatsby wants way too much out of her that she can’t give him and she knows that Tom will give her everything she wants. There has also been a certain point in my life where I thought money could try and fulfill that emptiness. When in reality, I just needed to figure out what to do to make myself truly happy instead of thinking that I can fill that void with money. I feel like if we could take money out of the equation for a second and let people learn self happiness then the world would be a lot different. People would not have to brag about how much money they have because that is the only way they can show people that they are “happy”. The way we show people how good we are doing is through money. We should not use money as a cover up to our emotions like Daisy does throughout the