Money is more valuable than love, or at least that’s how The Great Gatsby's Daisy Buchanan feels. In Fitzgeralds, The Great Gatsby, Daisy is a young woman in her early 20’s. In her even younger years, Daisy was in a relationship with Jay Gatsby. As she waits for Gatsby to return from war she receives a letter from him. He informs her that he is in fact poor. Daisy craves money, she is very materialistic and would much rather have wealth over true love. She is now no longer interested in Gatsby. Daisy finds a man of much more wealth named Tom Buchanan, who she marries and has a child named Pammy with. Daisy is in an abusive relationship while also being cheated on. Years go by and Daisy reconnects with an old cousin, Nick, whose neighbor happens to be Jay Gatsby. Eventually Gatsby and Daisy meet back up, this is when Daisy learns that Gatsby is now rich. Readers begin to wonder if …show more content…
Especially when she cries over Gatsby's clothes. She says “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such —such beautiful shirts before” (Fitzgerald 5). Daisy is crying over Gatsby's clothes when she realizes that he has actual nice clothes now. Seeing that he now has what she calls beautiful shirts really messes with her emotions. Daisy coming from wealth and marrying rich, she is very impacted by the amount of money one has. When she realizes the man she once loved but had to cut ties with is now rich, it causes her to become emotional. This shows readers how Daisy represents a greedy personality when she only shows emotion towards Gatsby after discovering his wealth. She expressed these feelings by crying over Gatsby's beautiful shirts. Therefore, Daisy's economic status leads her to show extreme greed in her relationships especially when she found out he is now rich after previously leaving him when he was