Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway proclaims himself to be “one of the few honest people” that he has known and he says that because his father told him “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you’ve had,” so he is “inclined to reserve all judgments.” He moved to “West Egg” on Long Island from the Middle West to “learn the bond business” because in his eyes, the Middle West became “the ragged edge of the universe.” He has an internal conflict on his feelings of New York. West egg is “new money” and East Egg is “old money.” He enjoys “the racy, adventurous feel of it,” but ultimately believes there is a “quality of distortion” about it. The way he feels

When Nick visits the Buchanan’s house in “East Egg”, Jordan and Daisy, his “second cousin once removed,” are “both in white,” Daisy also once had “a little white roadster,” and a “white face.” She is surrounded by white to represent innocence. She met Gatsby when “she was just eighteen” at Camp Taylor and she was “by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville.” She married “Tom Buchanan of Chicago” because Gatsby was poverty stricken at the time and Tom “had more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew.” Daisy shows attachment to money and material items when she visits Gatsby and his new found wealth, by crying over his shirts because they are “such beautiful shirts.” Gatsby tries to win Daisy back, but Daisy cannot admit that she “never loved Tom.” After Gatsby is killed, Tom and Daisy “retreated back into their money” and moved away. Daisy had changed since Gatsby had last seen her at Camp Taylor and the white that represented innocence and beauty was rather a void of the lack of a conscience she possessed. Nick believes that “Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan… were all Westerners,” so they were “unadaptable to Eastern life.” The west was more traditional, while the east was obsessed with

The author separates everyone into “New Money,” “Old Money,” and no money. New money means the person has newly become rich after the war and the people tend to be very flashy, but low class. Old Money is when the person is born with wealth and is a bit more traditional, but upper class. For example, Tom and Daisy moved to “wherever people played polo and were rich together,” because they were old money and participated in traditional wealthy sports. West Egg is new money, East Egg is old money, and the “valley of ashes” is no money. When Tom went to visit his mistress in the valley of ashes, his confrontation with Wilson showed how the upper rich look down on the poor. Tom was planning on doing business with Wilson by selling him a car, so when Wilson saw Tom “a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.” The poverty stricken try to leave, but cannot. Myrtle, Tom’s mistress and Wilson’s wife, died trying to leave. She “rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting” toward Gatsby’s car because she thought it belonged to Tom, and she wanted him to take her away to the upper class. There was separation between the rich as well. The New Money were “appalled by West Egg” because of its “raw