One of the many questions asked while reading The Great Gatsby would be, Is Daisy Buchanan the Victim or VIllain. I feel strongly that she is the victim although she does do some messed up things during the course of the book. While reading she is described in many ways, “‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly. ”“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” “‘Oh, you want too much!’
At the beginning of The Great Gatsby, many characters were introduced to us. The main character of the book is Gatsby, this is book is solely about him and his life. He is an interesting character and revivals parts of his life to Nick, his close friend. Through Gatsby telling his story in the book a character named Daisy has been introduced and her past is explained with Gatsby. We are left with a pondering question does Gatsby really love Daisy has he claims?
1. Gatsby has large and rapid mode swings for example, he “literally growled” and immediately after “without…exultation” radiated “ a new-well being”, which suggests he is emotionally unstable (95). 2.Gatsby gives off mixes signals, for he implies he wants alone time with Daisy when he looks between Nick and her with “tense unhappy eyes”, although when Nick leaves, giving the pair some privacy, Gatsby follows him sharing that he thinks, “[the meeting] is a mistake” (85). 3. The “faint flow of thunder”, which is present outside while Gatsby is meeting with Daisy, foreshadows flow of the pair’s relationship; where many small events will lead to a large burst of pent up emotion, just like thunder is the precursor to a storm.
Fitzgerald uses the color blue to show that Gatsby's depressed. One time this is shown when Gatsby cant get daisy's attention; A way that Fitzgerald explains how extravagant these parties are when he says, “ No thin five piece affair but a whole pit full of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums” (44). He throws multiple parties just to try to get her to come over to his house, but he spends an abundant amount of money every weekend and she never comes to them. Also Gatsby asks Nick to try to get Daisy over to his house so that he can “run into her” and try to impress her with his house. Another Example of this is when Gatsby is standing alone on his balcony;
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, characters have very distinct identities that develop throughout the book and many inferences are needed to understand the characters. One example of this is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan cares greatly about wealth and is a very careless person. Throughout the novel, many of her decisions are due to her greed and carelessness, even though those decisions may not be the best decisions for her. Daisy displays her greed throughout the novel; she marries Tom Buchanan because of his wealth.
Daisy contributed to the death of Gatsby because she bases her love on a person's wealth. Nick knew that all Daisy cared was money and herself being taken care of. An example of her selfishness is when Daisy says “there such beautiful shirts”, she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before” F. Scott Fitzgerald page 92.
“The Great Gatsby” Chapter III modern quotes connections The book’s narrator – Nick, first meets the person after whom the book is named in the third chapter, after he is invited to visit Gatsby’s “little party” his neighbor’s butler. Nick is unique in this case, as people usually come to Gatsby’s without an invitation. They come, and treat his house as some public space, created to serve a single purpose – host the largest parties on the Long Island. At Gatsby’s people do not bother checking in with the host by saying hello and introducing themselves, they simply come and go as they please.
In the beginning, Daisy finds out that Tom, her husband, is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. Daisy is gradually drifting away from Tom and into Gatsby’s arms. During Tom’s transition, he is having a lack of who he wants, Daisy and Myrtle. His lust for Daisy’s attention and affection becomes obvious when their group travels downtown. First, Tom tries to impress Daisy when Tom asks to switch cars with Gatsby: ‘“Well, you take my coupé and let me drive your car to town’”
Daisy is a girl who has a lot of different characteristics and many of them are different than what most people have. There are plenty of ways that Daisy tries to prove who she really is. In The Great Gatsby Daisy shows that her life isn’t so bad after all, that she is not all about money, and that she feels likes a princess because she has everything she needs. She wants people to know that her life isn’t so bad afterall. She has a perfect life and couldn’t ask for anything more.
Dear Daisy, It seems as if I haven't seen you in a lifetime, I think about you everyday and wish you were here with me. I've experienced so much. I would love to ask you "How have you been?" or "What's new in life?" or even "Do you ever miss me?" but I know I would only be setting my self up for a deeper suffering than I am in now, not being able to kiss, feel, or dance with you . One morning I woke up doing my normal routine; shower, slip on some clothes, and grab the paper with a small cup of coffee.
They get bored at Daisy and Tom’s, so they decide to go into town. After they pull up into town, they end up in a suite at the Plaza hotel in an attempt to cool off a little. The tensions between Gatsby and Tom begin to rise even more than they already had when Tom accuses Gatsby of lying about being an Oxford man. Gatsby defends himself and declares that he was at Oxford, but only for a few months. Later, Gatsby starts to force Daisy to choose between himself and Tom.
Yesterday Gatsby had the nerve to tell me that my wife didn’t love me. How dare he try to come into my home and try to ruin my marriage. Daisy and I may not be the closest, and I’m definitely not the first person to say that I’m a loyal husband, but I love Daisy, and nothing will ever change that. All those west-eggers they all act the same, trying to ride of the coat-tails of the rich, and fit in with our agendas, when they haven’t even seen a dollar pass through their dried-up bank accounts. Gatsby is one of the worst ones there is.
While driving, a woman by the name of Myrtle Wilson, unexpectedly runs out in front of the moving car and is instantly killed. Instead of stopping to inspect the scene, frightened Daisy continues to drive, leaving the scene in which is further recognized by others as a hit-and-run. Nevertheless, Gatsby did not want Daisy to be punished with the consequences, so he takes the matters into his own hands. This is shown when Nick asks Gatsby if “[She] Was Daisy Driving?” and Gatsby replies “Yes, but of course I’ll say I was” (143, Fitzgerald).
In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed as a modern woman; she is sophisticated, careless and beautifully shallow. Daisy knows who she is, and what it takes for her to be able to keep the lifestyle she grew up in, and this adds to her carelessness and her feigned interest in life. In all, Daisy is a woman who will not sacrifice material desires or comfort for love or for others, and her character is politely cruel in this way. Daisy’s main strength, which buoyed her throughout her youth and when she was in Louisville, is her ability to know what was expected of her and feign cluelessness.
Robert Frost wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken” in 1916 (Hirschberg and Hirschberg 800). There are qualities about Frost’s poems that made them really popular and these qualities “can be seen in ‘The Road Not Taken,’” (Hirschberg and Hirschberg 800). This poem in particular depicts how people must make choices in life and that the choices made affect the rest of their life. Frost uses setting, a variety of images, and certain words to enhance the poem’s theme and to make it easier to understand.
