How Does Daisy Buchanan Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

The 1920s was a time of fun, jazz and being rebellious. During this time, ironically, prohibition of alcohol was a forced factor which led to some disobedient conduct. In the novel, “The Great Gatsby”, we see behind the scenes of new money vs. old money. Daisy Buchanan is old money because she was born into wealth and never knew life without it. With that being said, she lives in East Egg with her Husband Tom and their daughter, Pammy. Daisy Buchanan’s social location of being a young, beautiful woman in the 1920s also known as the roaring twenties influences her to be lustful, energetic, and careless. In other words, Daisy Settled down pretty early on in her life by getting married to Tom and having a child with him. This affects

“I love you now —isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once — but I loved you too” (Fitzgerald 64). In this scene, we see how Gatsby was nothing more than a fling to Daisy and how

With having youth, that brings being carefree. For instance, after blaming her wrongdoings on Gatsby, she walks away with clean hands. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (Fitzgerald 87). In this scene, we see the true colors of Daisy and how unconcerned she is of her decisions which ruined lives, literally. Morally speaking, this would internally haunt any sane person knowing what you did wasn’t right especially when it was pinned on someone else. This is ironic because Daisy is described as the white, pure, and innocent woman of the novel. Being immature can justify being selfish at times because you haven’t learned sympathy. Not only that, but also lacking the cognitive ability to see from other people’s