How Is Daisy Presented In The Great Gatsby

Daisy is the most intriguing and complicated character in The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald puts a lot of effort just to show how deserving she is of Gatsby and all his affection, but in the end she proved what kind of person she truly was. Regardless of her positive attitude and beauty, Daisy showed that she is just an insincere, self absorbed, unkind character. Up until the end of the book Daisy was identified as the perfect woman; she was attached with words “grace”, “innocence”, and “perfection”, yet when everything is done her character switches around completely and she is the exact opposite of what she was once depicted as. Gatsby was so in love with her that he went to the ends of the earth to get her attention to keep her as happy as she could be. Daisy is not in love with Gatsby, but in love with

During the party Gatsby threw that Daisy and Tom attended Gatsby took Daisy into a private spot and told her he wanted her all to himself. Nick later tells us what Gatsby specifically wanted from Daisy; “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you” (109). It is implied that they had a conversation about where they would go and how things would play out and Daisy obviously felt he was asking a lot, especially since they hadn’t been ‘back together’ for long. Gatsby didn’t want to run away with Daisy; he wanted them to live in his house and it is assumed that she was not very enthusiastic about that, because she never actually planned on it getting serious and never planned on leaving Tom. It was only a temporary thing for her, Gatsby was never going to be Daisy’s ‘forever’. It is also implied that Daisy was not as impressed by Gatsby’s wealth as he hoped she would be, she was born into a wealthy family as well as marrying into a lot of money as well, so it wasn’t anything too