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Examples Of Helenn Settle In The Great Gatsby

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Placing blame is a tricky action, especially when you don’t know all sides of the story. Daisy Faye, a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story The Great Gatsby, is a woman stuck in a tough position between two men she used to love and little control over the situation. However, some opinions differ in their interpretation of her, like Glenn Settle’s in his notes titled Fitzgerald’s Daisy: The Siren Voice. In this article, Settle explains his belief that Daisy acts as a “wrecker-temptress” and a siren. In this context, a siren refers to a mythological creature with a beautiful, enchanting voice used to lure sailors and travelers to their demise. Daisy accomplishes this interpretation through her main struggle in The Great Gatsby: wanting to …show more content…

However, when read it can also be noticed that both Gatsby and Tom dismiss whatever Daisy says. The two are so enveloped in the idea that they’re the right one and the other is wrong that they don’t actually consider what Daisy wants. Instead of letting Daisy speak out to Tom, Gatsby fights for her. Also, when she speaks her mind and it isn’t in alignment with what Gatsby wants, he attempts to excuse them so he can tell Daisy what to say instead because “She’s all excited now.” Instead of believing what Daisy does say to him, Tom attacks Gatsby and calls her opinion crazy. When understood this way, both men are really at fault for covering up Daisy’s side of something that clearly includes her opinion as well. It’s in this situation that it leads me to believe that Daisy’s voice only lends its influence onto other characters in relatively positive settings. No matter what Daisy tells them, it has no effect when they’re so focused on what they think is right rather than Daisy herself. This conclusion can be used to contradict the opinion that Daisy is a full-fledged siren seeing as how she isn’t only luring in hopeless victims, she is

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