Daisy is most inexplicable, and perhaps most disheartening, character of The Great Gatsby. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald does a great deal to make her a character worthy of Gatsby's devotion, in the end she reveals herself for what she really is and disappears. Despite her beauty and charm, Daisy is merely a shallow, and at some times hurtful, woman. Gatsby loves her with such vitality and determination that readers would like, in many senses, to see her be worthy of his devotion and attention. Although Fitzgerald carefully builds Daisy's character with associations of light, purity, and innocence, when the books draws to a close we realise she is the opposite from what she presents herself to be. At first you fall in love with her mysterious character but she soon becomes a complicated and twisted character. |
"I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool . . . You see, I think everything's terrible anyhow . . . And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything."
Daisy Fay Buchanan is originally from a family in Louisville, Kentucky. After marrying Tom Buchanan, a very rich man, she moves to East Egg, Long Island, she is the mother of a little girl Pammy who is rarely mentioned in the book. Daisy is a woman who likes to play around with men or in other words to joke about, she loves to exaggerate and emphasise. Most men are fascinated by her and Daisy enjoys being the centre of attention. She also hopes to be liked and be popular among the men around her, constantly wanting to impress men including Gatsby by using sophisticated language and sharing her deepest thoughts. Daisy promises more than she gives and at often times does not tell the truth.
She has a strong desire for love mainly for this reason she married Tom, instead of Gatsby, although Tom proves to be unfaithful. Wanting to be loved is a reason for her superficial behaviour and why everything about her doesn't appear t feel real. Especially with Daisy knowing about her husband's infidelity, it is hard for her to change her behaviour. Sometimes it can even be seen as cynical, having a bleak outlook about others, Daisy even says about herself: "I'm pretty cynical about everything". You can see that she does not really love her husband Tom and is not happy because of her near divorce from him. Furthermore Daisy is careless person which you can see in her behaviour when she has the hit-and-run accident in which Myrtle is killed. Being used to getting young men's attention, she has learned to think only of herself no matter whether other people get hurt or not. Another reason for marrying Tom rather than Gatsby is because material things have a great importance to her. She was always crying for a decision and wanted her life to be shaped, Tom was the one who bought her love with a large pearl necklace and gave her all the luxury Daisy needed for living. Even her voice is full of money, Nick says that Daisy's voice "couldn't be over-dreamed" and it is "a deathless song".
She has a strong desire for love mainly for this reason she married Tom, instead of Gatsby, although Tom proves to be unfaithful. Wanting to be loved is a reason for her superficial behaviour and why everything about her doesn't appear t feel real. Especially with Daisy knowing about her husband's infidelity, it is hard for her to change her behaviour. Sometimes it can even be seen as cynical, having a bleak outlook about others, Daisy even says about herself: "I'm pretty cynical about everything". You can see that she does not really love her husband Tom and is not happy because of her near divorce from him. Furthermore Daisy is careless person which you can see in her behaviour when she has the hit-and-run accident in which Myrtle is killed. Being used to getting young men's attention, she has learned to think only of herself no matter whether other people get hurt or not. Another reason for marrying Tom rather than Gatsby is because material things have a great importance to her. She was always crying for a decision and wanted her life to be shaped, Tom was the one who bought her love with a large pearl necklace and gave her all the luxury Daisy needed for living. Even her voice is full of money, Nick says that Daisy's voice "couldn't be over-dreamed" and it is "a deathless song".
“Sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn’t know what she’s doing”
From where the book begin's, Nick's first visit to Daisy is associated with otherworldliness, he calls on her at her house and initially finds her and Jordan Baker, who is in many ways an unmarried version of Daisy, dressed all in white, sitting on an "enormous couch . . . buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon . . . [her dress] rippling and fluttering as if [she] had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house." She is routinely linked with the colour white (a white dress, white flowers, white car, and so on), always at the height of fashion and addressing people with only the most endearing terms. She appears pure in a world of cheats and liars. Given Gatsby's obsession with Daisy and the lengths to which he has gone to win her, she seems a worthy paramour. This is the scene and side of Daisy I want to focus on, not her twisted and drama filled life, but the lavish and beautiful one she leads when in the company of others and the one she fronts all the time. The space I want to create will be one of beauty and grace with beautiful flowing fabrics and many corners to hide away and project beauty in a silent sort of way.
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