Regardless of setting and era, as women, the struggle to achieve happiness is not entirely different. Daisy’s initial idea of happiness is to have stability and practicality in her life while Telaga’s idea of happiness is having the freedom to make her own decisions in her life. For them to achieve happiness they must both rebel against a patriarchal social system, that similarly defines them both as attractive accessories in a male dominated world. However, what differentiates them from each other is their response to critical situations when they have to make a decision to pursue their happiness or to conform to society’s expectations.…
Is Daisy really the sweetheart that everybody thinks she is? Daisy Buchanan is another qualifier for the main villain in the story The Great Gatsby. Daisy is in many ways a villain even though she doesn't physically hurt anyone, she hurts a lot of the characters in a mental and emotional way. Stephen, from Goodreads.com, tells us that Daisy is the main villain of the story. He explains that Daisy created the problem with Gatsby ever since they met.…
Societies value of material possessions breeds carelessness. Humankind becomes consumed with objects and wealth and takes on a self absorbed persona. For instance, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan embodies the hollowness of the upper class. Fitzgerald uses Daisy as his mechanism to demonstrate the materialistic hollowness of the elite leading to her carelessness, as expressed in her insensitivity, selfishness, and her consequential destruction.…
First impressions are lasting, and the reader’s first impression of Daisy is angelic one. Surrounded by innocence and enchantment, Daisy appears to the reader as the epitome of purity, “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” (Fitzgerald 8) She is written in a way as to seem like an angel that has graced us with her presence down on earth. She doesn’t appear to be quite human, perhaps a fairy of sorts that can take flight at any moment. Dawned in a white gown, she is supposedly mirroring her glow of purity.…
Daisy Buchanan, the married love interest of Jay Gatsby, feels as if she must act as if she’s a fool to survive in this time when women were often viewed as inferior to men and did not have equal rights. She says of her daughter, “I hope she’ll be a fool-- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 17). Daisy, along with many other women of the 20’s, is the result of the societal conditioning towards women, telling them that they cannot be as intelligent as men are, are too weak to be in the workplace, and considered to be the “property” of a man. Owing to this view society held against women, Daisy herself wears plays the role of a “beautiful little fool” and is quick to cover her true emotions with a mask, making her appear as if there is nothing wrong with her life. An example of this behavior is when Daisy receives a letter a day before her marriage to Tom Buchanan, from Jay Gatsby, whom she had no…
What happens to a life built on secrets when the truth comes out? Jay Gatsby was an enigma; James Gatz was a simple boy from North Dakota. Gatsby needs to keep his past a secret because that is what allows him a chance to win Daisy’s love. It also leads to the deaths of Gatsby and other characters, revealing the theme of harmful blind ambition. Daisy is a superficial girl.…
When Nick visits Gatsby to tell him to forget about Daisy and to leave Long Island, instead of rejecting Nick’s advice, Gatsby actually agrees and leaves right away. This would give Gatsby a chance to restart and live again. To start, Gatsby was looking for wealth before he met Daisy. Gatsby's first experience with wealth comes with his apprenticeship with Dan Cody. When Gatsby meets Daisy, he seems to be more attracted to her wealth and family background than to Daisy herself; he didn't pursue Daisy, but rather the idea of her.…
This year’s exploration of the pursuit of happiness has taught me many lessons that I will carry throughout my life. The literature that I’ve read this year has molded the way that I see life and the factors that I consider while making decisions. I’ve learned to never The Great Gatsby has taught me to do whatever makes you happy regardless of what others think. Fitzgerald makes Daisy and Tom seem reckless, ignorant, and selfish, when in reality they’re just doing what makes them happy.…
Gatsby would like Daisy to tell Tom "I never loved you" (page 109) and he also wants her to leave Tom Buchanan and marry him in Louisville in her house like it should have been five years ago. Gatsby lives in the past with Daisy, but he does not recognize that he is not the young Jay with lots of hope. His personalities have changed as well as his character. In addition, Daisy is a weak and selfish person who cannot leave Tom. She won’t leave her husband because of him although she knows that Tom is cheating on her with Myrtle.…
Each individual in a caring relationship bears a responsibility. This is not a responsibility to love the partner because while love creates the relationship, it may not always sustain the relationship. This responsibility requires a partner to respect the other in order to construct and nurture a caring relationship. Frequently, men lose the sight of their responsibilities. In some cases, the relationship is not established and the care does not exist, a clear image of the denigration of women.…
As Gatsby and Daisy see each other again for the first time in five years, the awkwardness between the two correlate with the weather outside Nick’s house. When Gatsby becomes incredibly uneasy because Daisy isn’t acting the way he had expected her to, Nick goes outside to give them space, he describes the outside as “… pouring, and [his] irregular lawn… abounded in small muddy swamps and prehistoric marshes” (88). Gatsby began to doubt himself after asking Nick to call Daisy over, the rain reflecting the fact that he is unsure as to whether he made the right choice or not. As Nick starts to leave for their privacy, the rain starts to pour down on them again, letting the readers have a brief understanding of what was happening between Gatsby…
“(Talking about the birth of her daughter) ... it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she will be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’” This description may be shocking to a modern reader, but in Daisy’s world women are expected to be the foolish thing for men to save.…
Many suffer from the consequences of their own actions, however it’s not uncommon that one may carry the burden of another’s mistakes. Unfortunately, this is flawlessly displayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. Throughout the entirety of the novel, knowingly so Daisy continues to let her irresponsible decisions hurt the ones closest to her. Daisy Buchanan is a self-absorbed vacuous socialite whose decisions lead to the destruction of Gatsby, Myrtle, and Tom. Through murder, heartbreak and lies Daisy destroys others.…
Are you in love or rather obsessed with your significant other? In the great Gatsby by Fitzgerald there is once a poor man in love with a women who he hasn’t seen in five years. Once they reunite he wants to relive the past, but there are obstacles in between them two. Gatsby has always been obsessed with his achievements. Therefore his love for Daisy is another obsession rather than true love.…
Daisy still thought she had everything. Wealth, love and happiness, which all fall into the category of The American dream, but she discovers that she has nothing. Daisy actually has a child who doesn’t seem significant to her. The kid is never around, which shows quite a bit about Daisy. When her kid was born, Daisy said, “I’m glad it’s a girl.…