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She is often seen as an innocent southern belle, just a beautiful fool. However, many readers view her in a completely opposite way. She has been noted as quite a dishonorable character, almost more of a villain, in the harshest of descriptions. She is motivated purely by her own comfort and security, which come in the way of money and material items. This sense of monetary motivation seems to affect her in such a way that makes her almost superior to the common working person. Daisy Buchanan can hardly be seen as honorable at all. There are many points throughout the story where her actions are far from noble. She fell in love with a young Gatsby before World War I. He promised her that he would give her the world once he made enough money to do so. She in return vowed to wait for him. However, Daisy became tired of waiting. She found another man, this time a wealthy one, Tom Buchanan. She married him in 1919, abandoning Gatsby and all she ever promised him. Her actions at this time show that she was more concerned with her image than with her emotions. Five years later, once Daisy and Gatsby have been reunited with the help of Nick, Daisy becomes unfaithful to her husband and has an affair with her former lover. When Daisy introduces her daughter, Pammy, she explains, “I hope she’ll be a fool. That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful, little fool.” (21) This shows that Daisy would rather her daughter be well-liked and well-off than well-educated. She has no concern for practicality, only
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She is manipulative, good at getting what she wants by pretending to be the innocent one. Even Gatsby, a wealthy man himself, can see this when he points out, “Her voice is full of money.” (120) Daisy is so used to a lifestyle of getting whatever she wants, that she has become quite comfortable with it. Gatsby and Nick, on the other hand, have had to work their ways up to where they are. They have to watch what they say around others, because they cannot afford to be as carefree as Daisy. She is quite self-centered. We see through her clothing choices and her desire to go into town just to rent a room in an expensive hotel, that she can and will throw her money around to get her way. In her first conversation with Nick, in the beginning of the novel, she asks, “So how are things in Chicago? Do they miss me?” (5) It is almost as though she expects people to miss her, not because of her personality, but because of her wealth and position in the city. She knows that she is superior to all of those in the middle and working classes without ever having to lift a finger. Such a pampered lifestyle has led Daisy to be quite full of
She is manipulative, good at getting what she wants by pretending to be the innocent one. Even Gatsby, a wealthy man himself, can see this when he points out, “Her voice is full of money.” (120) Daisy is so used to a lifestyle of getting whatever she wants, that she has become quite comfortable with it. Gatsby and Nick, on the other hand, have had to work their ways up to where they are. They have to watch what they say around others, because they cannot afford to be as carefree as Daisy. She is quite self-centered. We see through her clothing choices and her desire to go into town just to rent a room in an expensive hotel, that she can and will throw her money around to get her way. In her first conversation with Nick, in the beginning of the novel, she asks, “So how are things in Chicago? Do they miss me?” (5) It is almost as though she expects people to miss her, not because of her personality, but because of her wealth and position in the city. She knows that she is superior to all of those in the middle and working classes without ever having to lift a finger. Such a pampered lifestyle has led Daisy to be quite full of