Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

Melissa Sandoval-Suarez
Mrs. Marcuccio
American literature
April 26 2023
Who or What to Blame “They were careless people, they smashed up things and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (Fitzgerald 123). This is used to describe Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the people responsible for Gatspys death. These characters appear in Fitzgerald’s American classic, The Great Gatsby. Daisy Buchanan was born into old money, narcissistic, and an old lover of Gatspys of whom he hasn’t gotten over yet. Tom is a violent entitled man who uses others for his own gain and will stop at nothing to prevent lose of control. Gatsby is a

While she did not choose to become the object of Gatsby's fascination she did lead him to believe something different from what actually felt for him. We see this in chapter 7, with her kissing him at dinner as well as her refusing to tell Tom she never loved him because she knew it wasn’t true. She did this all to get back at Tom not because she actually carried about Gatspys feelings. She fed into his delusions. She also had a direct connection to Gatspys death by the fact that she hit Myrtle, occurring in the same chapter, leading to George frantically searching for his wife’s murderer. This ended up being Gatsby through Toms purposeful misguiding. Tom directly caused Gatsby's murder by telling George it was he who hit his wife knowing he was not in a stable mindset and not truly knowing if it was him or daisy who was driving the car. Tom had a motive and after seeing he was losing control of both the primary women in his life and suspecting the affair between Gatspy and Daisy he knew he had to do something. Though Tom did not physically kill Gatsby, he talked to George knowing and wanting something bad to happen. Looking at the bigger picture though, gatsby's constant chasing of the American dream put him in the position he was in and led to his ultimate

He didn’t try to sit down and remain calm, he drove himself straight to Gatspys house, watched him, and pulled the trigger on him. Or that the American Dream shouldn’t be taken so seriously and was created when he was a young teen. “He invented jus the sort of Jay Gatsby a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (Fitzgerald pg. 67). The American dream is a term used to describe individuals reaching their goals and growth no matter the obstacles but obviously there are limits. If the goal becomes all for someone else in a negative way, it doesn’t really qualify as an American dream anymore. However, the American Dream should be about personal growth and betterment and there is still a culture today that promotes living your American Dream regardless of the consequences. So much led up to Gatsby's death, other characters should be listed as his killers