Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are brighter, the air softer and the morning more fragrant than ever again,” it was a time of innocence- a time of not being exposed to the cruel truths of the world (Elizabeth Lawrence). Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby strives to take back her innocence. However, she cannot because she is not an unintelligent woman as she says she is “‘sophisticated’” (20). But Daisy is stuck on this idea that all woman should be innocent and be jaunty and passive, so she feigns a foolish front for herself. Daisy 's values also make her fool, like how she cares more about wealth than love, how she depends on her status to be happy and content with life and how her priorities are mixed up as a …show more content…
Daisy would be in love with anyone who is richer than the last; as Gatsby states “‘she only married you (Tom) because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me’” (156). There is a vast foolishness behind an idea that someone such as herself can acquire a greater happiness in material items than love itself. Daisy’s ability to play with the hearts of men and then leave once a better opportunity comes along is presumptuous. As Daisy did not once cry about having to choose between Tom and Gatsby or Tom having a mistress but “she sobbed” over Gatsby’s pristine shirts because “‘it made [her] sad because [she had] never seen such beautiful shirts’” it shows that she chooses materials over morals and it understates the relationships she had with the men (111). By doing this it classifies her as a woman of her time because she is ignorant to the things that matter – she is ignorant to reality and only cares about status, which is what the character she tries to portray herself as