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The Great Gatsby Daisy Selfish

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Daisy is a very complex character in The Great Gatsby. She was once a poor girl who was naive and longed for true love, but as the plot progresses, she reveals her selfishness and worship of money. I was attracted to Daisy because the personality of the character reflects the nature of human beings, and the selection criteria of most people, not moral or immoral, but which one can maximize their own interests, made me think a lot about human nature.
At the beginning of the book, when Nick first met Daisy, he felt Daisy's hypocrisy: “The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact …show more content…

Daisy cried tears of joy when she visited Gatsby's home: “They're such beautiful shirts, it makes me sad because I've never seen such- such beautiful shirts before". such beautiful shirts before” (98). Her crying includes her unhappy life after marriage and remorse. But no one can say whether Daisy's Love is pure for Gatsby. By cheating with Gatsby, she can vent her sorrowful emotions because of her unhappy marriage, and can gain Gatsby's love for her and his money without any payment from her, reflecting her frivolity and …show more content…

Daisy has to make a choice between Tom and Gatsby after all. But the greedy Daisy wants it all, she wants to hold both men in her hands, not wanting to give up her love nor her reputation, which makes her weak and trying to keep her life the way it is, so she says: “Please don't! Why don't we all go home” (137). In the quarrel, she was horrified to discover that Gatsby's fortune came from unknown sources, social status and she did not match. She originally was ready to elope for love with Gatsby, but in love and money, she finally chose Tom, which shows her vanity and the desire for money.
Since this quarrel, Daisy has firmly chosen Tom, who can bring her wealth and status. Although it was Gatsby who willingly took the blame for her after Daisy's crash, she did not have a trace of gratitude, but instead discussed with Tom how to blame the crash on Gatsby, and then for the sake of her reputation, she and Tom went far away, and According to Nick's statement: “I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower” (183), cold and heartless disregard for the dead

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