Daisy's Materialism In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel that discusses many issues around money in American society. A direct link to this is Daisy and Tom Buchanan, characters who represent the old money upper class. Throughout the story their true personality appears. The Buchanans’ are centered around wealth to the point that their relationship is built on money and class. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the characters of Tom and Daisy Buchanan convey the theme that when the foundation for a relationship is money in place of love the outcome is a hollow marriage.

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.

The Great Gatsby:Character Analysis 1.Daisy isn 't one of the nicest characters in the book, money is a big priority for her and she lets others take the fall for her. Gatsby sums her up very well in a few words by saying “her voice is full of money..” (Fitzgerald 120) and letting everyone know she is very materialistic. Daisy is very selfish she thinks Gatsby asks too much of her when all he wants is her love.

Cash, with its characteristic capacity to captivate, boggle, and control, has for quite some time been a question of man 's fixations. It inspires sentiments of outrage, desire, voracity, and envy, sentiments of energy, predominance, and satisfaction. The conviction that all is good that riches offers gives the start to Daisy Buchanan 's associations with Tom and Gatsby in F. Scott Fitz-gerald 's novel, The Great Gatsby.

What did you always dream of becoming as a child? An astronaut? A doctor? The President? Many people tend to lose sight of their old dreams and accept a much harsher reality, yet not in the case of Jay Gatsby, the mysterious and extremely wealthy protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Set in the 1920s in Long Island, Gatsby embodies the culture of the Jazz Age as he uses his riches in pursuit of his former love, Daisy Buchanan, a beautiful woman from an affluent family. Daisy symbolizes the temptation and disillusionment of dreams as Gatsby’s interactions with her bring to light the true nature of their relationship, and he is forced to see that his initial expectations for their love are unattainable.

Tom expects Daisy to behave as the item he purchased for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, becoming angry when she indicates she might have a mind of her own. Gatsby has had five years to build up Daisy in his mind, and even Nick acknowledges that “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams- not through her own fault but because the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything” (101). Though it is clear that not a soul could have lived up to Gatsby’s fantasy, she is still accused of ‘failing’ Gatsby and being responsible for his death. Daisy is simply the vehicle for Gatsby’s impossible dream, and not really a person to Gatsby at all.

Gatsby’s actions towards becoming rich may be due to illegal smuggling acts, but his intentions and reason behind doing it is purely driven by his undying love towards Daisy. Jordan Baker narrates Daisy and Gatsby’s past relationship to Nick and afterwards she says, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would just be across the bay. (p.79)” This shows that Gatsby’s actions are motivated by his hope to reconnect with Daisy one day and allow her to see how much success and power he has acquired. He also threw lavish parties during the weekends in the anticipation of having Daisy wander off to one of them, but despite that, they only met due to the help of Nick inviting both of them over for tea. And when they finally reconnected, Gatsby invites

Daisy shows this by the fact that she knows that tom is cheating on her but still stays with him under the false fact that she is catholic purely for the reason that he has money. She also shows this when she talks about her daughter and her hopes for her. Before the war daisy was in love with Gatsby but he was poor and when he left for the war she moved on and got married to tom who was rich. But when the two are reunited after nick sets up a meeting and when she sees Gatsby’s house she learns that she is rich and becomes attracted to him again simply for the fact that he has money.

Although Gatsby does not seem to be a selfish man on the surface, his intentions and success may. He builds a ginormous mansion and throws extravagant parties all to get Daisy and her love back. Gatsby does all this for his good since all it consists of is having Daisy all to himself. The corruption and obsession of wealth is displayed through the characters Daisy, Tom and Gatsby as they live their lives in

As American business man, Richard M. Devos, once said, “Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott, Fitzgerald, Daisy, an elite socialite, is blinded by dollar signs and makes multiple decisions based on class, ultimately leading to the destruction of those who she claims to love, and without a doubt love and idolize her. Jay Gatsby has been in love with Daisy for five years, and supposedly she is with him, but she’s too impatient to wait for Gatsby while he is at war and decides to marry an arrogant, racist, and rude former college football star, Tom Buchanan, for money. Daisy is a self-absorbed, vacuous socialite whose decisions lead to the destruction of Gatsby.

Daisy is an ignorant woman, she destroys Gatsby’s dream and felt no guilt in leaving him. She feels safe as long as she had her money. She uses her money to cover up her wrong doings. Her ignorance and carelessness cause her to not understand the hard work behind the American

After all the arguing, at the end she turns to Tom so the whole situation can be over. She fails Gatsby and doesn 't do the one thing she had to do to make Gatsby happy. All she had to do was tell Tom she didn 't love him and everything would go as planned. She is so dumb, Tom cheats on her all the time but she had the decency to stay with him and still tell Gatsby to his face that she loves Tom too. Tom is a pig and the things he does are disgusting, but Daisy had a chance of retaliation and she didn 't take it.

Daisy is a victim of denying what is below the surface. This is seen in many different aspects throughout the novel. By approaching reality in a deeper way, everything will automatically become more complicated in countless ways. Even as readers, we do not know everything there is to know, especially when dealing with Jay Gatsby, but what we do know still manages to be contradicted by the complicated character of Daisy. It is recognizable that Daisy continually denies reality for her own convenience within her individual relationships mainly involving Tom and Gatsby, which deal with Tom’s affair, the situation of Gatsby, the feeling of regret following the realization of her first love, and her past of loving Tom.

Her choice between Tom and Gatsby is one of the biggest conflicts in this Novel. Daisy may seem like she’s a good person but as we move into the book we notice that she’s manipulates Gatsby and when it's all said & done she’s the total opposite of what people think she is. She has a strong need for love, that being the main reason for her marrying Tom, instead of Gatsby. She didn't know if Gatsby was going to come back from Oxford and she did not want to wait for him any longer.

Daisy and the Devil she was Turned Into The Great Gatsby is one of the best works of literature because of the many complex characters that are present. One of the most controversial characters in the book is Daisy Buchanan. At the beginning of the book, I thought Daisy would be a very minor character and would have little or no impact in the book. After I finished the book, I realized she had an impact; however, I still did not think she had a huge role in the novel.