Examples Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

“They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house” (page 8). Gatsby represents the American Dream by using wealth and his dream, while Daisy represents the American Dream by her purity and by all of the attention that she seems to get. Gatsby seems to be extremely wealthy and although he did not earn all of his money fairly he doesn’t care. He spends his fortune however he pleases. He spends his money on extravagant parties, and these extravagant parties include: decorations, a great amount of alcohol, butlers, dancers, an orchestra and enough food for the enormous amount of people who show up to these parties. Gatsby has these parties all of

She has a husband named Tom Buchanan, and they have a child together named Pammy. They have been married for a couple years, Daisy and Tom, and they got married after Gatsby had to go to war. Daisy, at first, seems to be very pure. The first time that she is introduced in the book, the room that she is in is described, “A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on sea” (page 8). Then after that her dress is described as white. So imagine this, here is this girl in a breezy room, with the curtains, the ceiling, and her dress as white. You can connect white with the symbol as purity, and peace. So the very first scene that she is introduced in, the whole room around her is symbolized as pure. This is how Fitzgerald wants our first impression of Daisy to be, pure and peaceful. But we soon find out that Daisy isn’t as pure as we once thought because she isn’t loyal, to anyone. She goes around and flirts with other men, and she doesn’t think twice about how it will affect them. On the outside Daisy seems to be peaceful and loving towards her daughter, but on the inside she is really leading both of these men on, and many other men. Which is not fair at all, because both of these men seem