Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

In the 1920s, the American culture was born. For the first time ever, Americans from coast to coast, were now able to listen to the same music, enjoy the same past times, watch movies, and buy the same goods. The economy was booming thanks to the concepts of credit and mass production. People of riches were living lavish lifestyles at the time. Among the rich, was Daisy Buchanan. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald includes a constant symbolization of Daisy and the color white. Her house’s windows are glistening white, she owned a white car, her white pearls, her white wedding, the white curtains and flowers, and she wears white dresses often. The color white shows how she is made out to be beautiful, pure, and innocent. She is, in fact, nowhere

Daisy and Tom Buchanan have been living within an unhappy marriage for nearly 5 years. Tom had been cheating on Daisy since the first week of their marriage. Recently, Daisy had been aware that Tom has been having a long-time affair with Myrtle Wilson, but she also knew that a divorce would be looked down upon by everyone else. Tom’s reason for not leaving Daisy is because of his mistress’s social class. Tom even makes the statement, “Everything will go overboard once there is intermarriage between black and white” (The Great Gatsby, 130). Although this contributes to his other racist views, this statement shows that he was strongly against the concept of the rich marrying the poor. In Tom’s perspective, the difference between the rich and poor social classes was just as clear as the black and white skin colors. Tom feared Myrtle would be bad for his self-image because she lived in poverty, compared to his riches. And Daisy, on the other hand, is only with Tom because she felt that Gatsby would not be able to provide her with everything she

The aftermath of these tragic events led to Daisy and Tom leaving everything behind in Long Island. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess they had made” – Nick (Chpt 9) They moved on and, with their money, brought a new home and a new life elsewhere. Ironically, Daisy’s greed led her to choose Tom and his security and wealth over Gatsby’s love, just as she did while Gatsby was at war. She once again moves on and leaves him in the past. Her and Tom end up moving away without even leaving their new address. Daisy does not even bother to attend Gatsby’s funeral. Daisy is introduced to readers as a symbolism of the color white, by seeming innocent, beautiful, and pure. She is eventually known for being cold, selfish, careless, greedy, shallow, unsympathetic, and materialistic. Even though she has all of these negative attributes, Daisy is still looked upon as the embodiment of the American Dream. Daisy is not just a shallow gold digger, she is a tragic lover who was corrupted by greed and money and materialistic things. Her whole life shows the extreme extent of how the love and lust for money affected Americans in the