Both have relations with Tom Buchanan. Although they have many similarities, there are distinct characteristics that separate the two and make one clearly better than the other. People’s personalities are constantly judged by their appearance. In Daisy and Myrtle’s cases, their outer looks really reflect who they are.…
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady have been captivating readers for almost a century. However, many readers have failed to see a hidden connection between the two novels. In fact, Fitzgerald wrote to Willa Cather “to explain an instance of apparent plagiarism.” He wrote that he had been reading A Lost Lady when he wrote The Great Gatsby and noted the similarity in description between Cather’s Mrs. Forrester and his own Daisy Buchanan. The resemblance between the two characters is apparent when focusing on their beautiful features and their manipulative natures.…
It is astonishing how two completely different characters from two completely different books can be, at the same time, so similar to one another. Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby and Jane Wellington from Uprising are girls who were raised with wealth in their family and grew up with proper techniques that separated them from those who were not as privileged as they were. Although these characters share many similarities within their lifestyle, multiple differences come in place for comparing personalities and how they react in different situations. Daisy Buchanan and Jane Wellington hold their rankings in society and confrontational tragedies in high regard, however, both have unique values and different moral behaviors.…
She hold Tom up with higher regards than her own husband because Tom has money and she liked money. Tom saw Myrtle as a fun time, but he was not going to be in a committed relationship with her because she was a poor woman from the valley. He even told a lie about how he could not get a divorce from Daisy. Tom was seen to be hurt when he finds out that Myrtle was died. This shows that he did have a sort of connection with her.…
In an attempt to escape from the controlling mass of a monster that her husband, Wilson had become, Myrtle sprinted out of their home. Running so endlessly, her feet had begun to give as she longed for more steps to take, not stopping. Quickening the pace she entered the road, at afar there roamed Jay Gatsby and his affaire Daisy, joyriding his yellow colored Rolls-Royce speeding down the road. As quick as the sound of light, the thought of Tom being present in the vehicle made Myrtle joyous to the fact that her significant other was there to rescue her, that had not been the case. Waving her chilling fingers in a rapid manner, Myrtle had managed to screech out the words of..…
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, two main female characters – Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker – both can be compared and contrasted in many different ways, but the most prominent are their differing personalities and similar background. Daisy Buchanan's personality is that of radiant sunshine. She is a lover who tries to be responsible for her actions, but sometimes gets lost in her indecisiveness and often has others make her decisions for her. She is quite a happy person on the outside, but on the inside, is one of sadness. For example, Daisy often emits “exaggerated” phrases when she doesn't know how to respond to something rather ordinary.…
Although this book has a very strong male dominating theme to it, it also has three leading ladies as well. Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jordan Baker. They are different in many ways complete opposites actually, but they are all connected in one way. They are all affected by the men in this book, whether it's Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, and Myrtle in a ridiculous love triangle or Nick falling in love with Jordan at one of Gatsby's infamous parties. In anyway you can think of they all know or know of each other.…
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby during the height of his career as an author. Although the novel didn’t sell well during his lifetime, after he passed away the sales for The Great Gatsby sky rocketed and the novel became one of his most famous works of literature. Scott Fitzgerald is known for basing events and characters from his novels from his own personal life, and this is especially prominent in The Great Gatsby. In this novel, many of the events and characters reflected his own personal life. Daisy, one of the main characters from the novel, had many striking similarities to his wife Zelda.…
(Fitzgerald, 41) Even though their actions show who they truly are, their attire and way of addressing people are very similar to that of men. Throwing away any femininity to their persona. All Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson all have the same traits. Clothes are very modern, not concerned at all with behavior in public, Jordan having a male dominated profession in Golf, Daisy being self centered and unladylike like, all having sex before marriage, and all having…
Myrtle uses her sexuality where she otherwise lacks power to try and gain a more luxurious life. Her sexual power causes Tom an otherwise reasonably respectable man from a well respected family to be unfaithful to his wife and go off on a ‘spree’ with Myrtle. Her power over Tom gained her some luxuries such as an apartment and a dog but unfortunately for Myrtle that is about the extent of what she will get out of her relationship with Tom. Her willingness to leave her incredibly hard working and faithful husband outlines her as a person who is willing to do anything just for a small slice of the american…
In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, characters Emma Bovary and Daisy Buchanan are very similar in the way they carry themselves, both Bovary and Buchanan have beauty, questionable maternal skills, and a desire for a more charismatic lifestyle. Emma Bovary and Daisy Buchanan share many of the same traits in each novel making them conspicuously alike. Beauty can cloud the vision of the beholder, this is experienced in both novels. It’s established in each text that the main female character is alluring and magnetic, creating an allusion for both Charles and Gatsby. “Perhaps they loved one another platonically.”…
Myrtles obsession with money leads her to forget the concept of love. Tom Buchanan serves as a devil who gives Myrtle worldly possessions so Myrtle becomes confused as to what true family means. Myrtle, although clearly abused, follows Tom wherever he goes. When Myrtle voices Daisy’s name out loud, “Tom Buchanan [breaks] her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 37). Although these events take place, Myrtle still goes with him and forgets how unremorseful and abusive he is.…
She has been having an affair with Tom, Daisy's husband. Since Myrtle was not born into a rich family like Tom, she thought she since someone from old money liked her she was higher social class then she really was. For example, Myrtle says, "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe"(Fitzgerald 34). Myrtle is saying this about her husband, Mr. Wilson, about how he is below her socially and so he will always be. This shows she is consumed into her false reality that she is meant to be wealthy and marry Tom instead.…
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel,’ The Great Gatsby, characters explore stories of love and loss. The female characters play a unique role in the story of Gatsby that allows them to be seen differently even though they share some similarities. Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle vary by motivation and goals, and are tied together by morals. The jazz age is described as a period of confusion, and directionless wandering.…
Women in the 1920s made a mark in history by the way they rebelled against stereotypes. As many say, women in the 20s were known as “new woman”. There were many things that changed for women during the 1920s. One of the biggest was the right to vote. The nineteenth amendment was passed during August 26, 1920.…