Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

In F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is a beautiful woman from Louisville Kentucky. After marrying the wealthy Tom Buchanan, she moves to east egg long island. Many men are fascinated with Daisy especially Jay gatsby, who also resides in East egg. After being separated from Daisy for 5 years, Gatsby seeks to reunite with her. Gatsby sees Daisy as the same beautiful and desirable woman that he first met, but she is a shallow and careless person. Daisy has a tough decision to make when she and Gatsby reunite and start spending time together. Her decision to stay with Tom reveals her true nature and will lead to the death of gatsby. Although daisy is seen as the exact woman Jay Gatsby desires, in reality her actions show how she is untrustworthy, deceitful, and careless, the opposite of what Gatsby thinks she is.

Daisie’s beauty is one of the first things Nick notices about her, with her bright eyes, passionate mouth, and a voice that men find difficult to forget. With these characteristics Daisy is seen worthy of Gatsby’s crazy obsession about her. However, her characteristics seem less and less acceptable as the novel goes on. Her selfishness is shown by staying with tom althiught she know he is unfaithfull. Tom’s ability to give her wealth and stability allows her to ignore the rality of the situation. While at dinner, Tom receives a call from his mistress, “the telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air.” Although Daisy seems to disapprove of the situation, she acceots it. She has the opportunity to leave for someone who loves her, but due to the comfortable and stable life Tom provides she makes the decision to stay with her unfaig=ful hsband, thus demonstarting that all she is