The Femme Insane In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

A femme fatale is a woman who lures in many partners, followed by abandoning them and causing despair or distress to those who are involved with her. Daisy and Gatsby begin a relationship before the war. After the war, Gatsby finds that Daisy has married another man, but Daisy leads him on to think that they can get back together. However, Daisy does not follow through with this and pulls away from Gatsby, and Gatsby is murdered shortly after. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan is a femme fatale because she lures Gatsby into attachment and then draws away from him, leading to Gatsby’s poor mental state and contributing to his murder. Daisy lures Gatsby in by first falling in love with him, which causes Gatsby to attach to her and think about her all the time. Gatsby first attaches to Daisy when they have their first kiss: “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and

During Tom and Gatsby’s argument, Tom turns to Daisy and says, “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter” (108). Upon hearing this, Daisy begins to pull away from Gatsby. He tries to deny this accusation from Tom by denying everything to Daisy, but “With every word she was drawing further and further into herself” (109). Gatsby stops trying to defend himself when he sees that Daisy is not accepting any of what he is saying. Gatsby seems furious and dangerous, and Nick remarks, “He looked—and this is said in all contempt for the babbled slander of his garden—as if he had ‘killed a man’” (109). This is the first sign of Gatsby’s poor mental state following Daisy pulling away from him. He becomes angry and seems as if he will snap at any moment because he realizes that Daisy has led him on, seeming to love him and move on from Tom, but then changes her mind and pulls away from