Despicable Daisy What makes a person despicable? Daisy is one of the most despicable characters in the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scouts Fitzgerald. While Daisy appears to be an admirable character Daisy has killed. Whereas gatsby the truly admirable character only tries to show daisy love. Daisy is considered one of the most despicable characters for her murdering Myrtle.
Throughout the narrative, Nick becomes disgusted by careless people which results in his desire to condemn others for their selfish actions and his choice to go back home. Ewing Klipspringer is a very careless character in The Great Gatsby. He benefited probably more than anyone from Gatsby, he was always at the parties and basically lived there. People even called him the boarder, as in a boarding house or hotel. Even though Klipspringer was living rent-free and benefiting from Gatsby, he never went to Gatsby’s funeral.
Gatsby loved Daisy, in his way. In chapter 6, after Gatsby’s party which Tom and Daisy attended, Jay reveals to Nick how he and Daisy fell in love. He explain that when he kissed her, he fell deeply in love with her. Weather one kiss can being about that kind of enduring love is questionable and certainly a strong argument can be made that what Jay loved was the idea of Daisy more than Daisy herself. She was, after all, beautiful and rich.
Great Gatsby The Webster dictionary describes responsibility as the state of being the primary cause of something and therefore, able to be blamed or credited for it. Tom, Daisy and Gatsby are three characters in the literary work The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald who take no responsibility for their actions, due to this fact the lives of others are destroyed. Daisy a beautiful temptress is the type of woman that seldom takes responsibility for any wrong doing within her life.
When the idea of the 1920’s comes up the first thought is “the roaring twenties” with parties, wealth, and dancing. Often the issues of the time are forgotten. However, The Great Gatsby stands as a window into the social system of the 1920’s. With references to racism and prohibition, Fitzgerald created a story that gives a sense of society at this time. However, the most evident issue is the sexism often portrayed.
The Great Gatsby Reveals F. Scott Fitzgerald is the author of The Great Gatsby, the characters he created show how people try to achieve The American Dream and how money cannot buy happiness. Daisy, one of the main characters, is a perfect example on showing how hard Gatsby tried to get The American Dream, how you cannot buy happiness, and she is ruined by doing the wrong actions just because of others. Gatsby is a rich guy with new money. He fell in love with Daisy five years ago, before she married Tom with his old money. Their love still held on all those years.
Ash Campbell Mrs. Wiseman 10 April 2024 The American dream's attainability is demonstrated through Daisy and Gatsby; however, even though Wilson has not achieved the American dream, it does not discredit this dream's plausibility. The American dream’s attainability is illustrated through Daisy Buchanan’s dedication and love for the American dream. Daisy has always been very fond of living a lavish life and is willing to go to extreme lengths to achieve this. However, these morals are put to the test when Daisy is pressured to pick between true love and a luxurious life.
In the first chapter of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents the audience with a clear presentation of Daisy’s attributes and personality traits, possibly to the extent of presenting her as a stereotypical representation of most wives in the early 20th century. From Nick’s first visit to the Buchanan household in chapter one, Daisy is associated with that of something ‘Heavenly’ or ‘Angelic’: “The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house”. Her white attire doesn't only give her an ‘angelic’ presence, but also gives the impression of innocence and pure.
From reading the book The Great Gatsby, I have drawn the conclusion that Daisy is far from being a victim. Her actions have shown that she is an evil bitch. Within the first chapter, she is characterized as artificial and weak and as the book digs deeper into her characterization she is then proven to be selfish and careless as well. Nick Carraway, the narrator’s first visit with Daisy portrayed her as angelic with her sitting on an “ enormous couch . . . buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon . . .
In the novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy is conflicted between her past lover and her current husband. Daisy should not choose neither Gatsby nor Tom because neither one truly loved Daisy. Gatsby is in love with the idea of Daisy being his girl, not another man’s girl. He is in love with the idea of Daisy, rather than Daisy herself. “It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy— It increased her value in his eyes.”
In The Great Gatsby, a man, Jay Gatsby, loves Daisy and dreams of her loving him back. Though Gatsby does not have much justification for believing Daisy will leave her husband, he continues to hold onto his dream. The biggest detrimental blow to his dream transpires during Gatsby's confrontation with Tom when Daisy tells Gatsby that she actually loves Tom and does not plan on leaving him. Although Daisy is in love with Gatsby, and has an affair with him, she chooses to stay with Tom because he is wealthy and the relationship is convenient for her; additionally, because Tom reveals that Gatsby is involved in the illegal business of bootlegging. When Daisy hears this, she feels insecure about staying with Gatsby and goes back to Tom.
Nick seems to realize this in the end and shows this belief. His final words to Gatsby show his place in this reality proclaiming that “‘They're a rotten crowd... [and he’s] worth the whole damn bunch put together.’” (Fitzgerald 162) Gatsby though not a hero is still the closest they have within the novel. Every character is flawed in major ways, and to put Gatsby, the most financially corrupt of them all, as the greatest of them, exemplifies the perverse morality of the others.
It is said that Gatsby's ability to present himself as successful is due in part to his keen awareness of what other people want. Nick believes that Gatsby has "an unbelievable gift for hope," which he checks quite sensitively, like a seismograph. Gatsby is aware of what other people desire and never intends to let them down. Throughout the book, he organizes extravagant parties and presents everyone with gifts to keep himself in peoples' minds. Gatsby is a lonely man who yearns for love and acceptance from people around him.
He hated every other person. “Gatsby turned out alright in the end; it was what preyed on gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.” Gatsby is a great man because in Nick’s eyes, he was the only one that “turned out alright in the end”, he had an extraordinary gift for hope, and he humble and not a jerk about his money.
Many people see Gatsby as an untrusty and selfish human being who doesn’t live up to the book's title, “The Great Gatsby”. Throughout the story we see Gatsby be believed to be a facade by others, having no personality and only having his parties. Seeing him as a person only caring about his dream to be with Daisy, feeding words into her mouth and forcing her to do things. However we see the real Gatsby, a man who respects his peers and treats them with kindness. Also seeing it through his peers' eyes, and how they view him.
