“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight” (Fitzgerald 143). Death was in the future and Daisy will cause it. She doesn’t know it. Death seemed as if it was in the mind, but never payed attention to. Glen Settle, the author of the article Fitzgerald’s Daisy: The Siren Voice, and F. Scott Fitzgerald represent Daisy as having a voice that obstruct people from reaching their dream. She has features that depicts her as a siren who use their voices to tempt sailors and lure men from their desires. Her voice is compelling and it promises of treasures for what people aspire to have. In the book, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, based on a feminist theory portrays that Daisy is a siren who acts like a barrier preventing people from reaching their dreams. Throughout the book there are many cases in which
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When Tom, her, Nick, Jordan, and Gatsby were in the plaza Tom and Gatsby were arguing about how Daisy never loved. Tom finds out that Daisy and Gatsby have known each other for a long time. Daisy slips away and doesn't want to deal with Tom and Gatsby’s fight for their definition of “love”. Her frightened expressions, her looks to Gatsby causes her to fall deeper into herself. Fitzgerald complicates matters further when he writes, “ But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room” (Fitzgerald 142). After this she acts distant and doesn’t even come to Gatsby’s funeral. She leaves with her family without telling anyone they were leaving or where they were going. No one knew until Nick called to ask if she would come to Gatsby’s funeral, but she didn’t come to the phone and a servant answered and gave very vague answers that didn’t answer any of Nick’s
When Tom, her, Nick, Jordan, and Gatsby were in the plaza Tom and Gatsby were arguing about how Daisy never loved. Tom finds out that Daisy and Gatsby have known each other for a long time. Daisy slips away and doesn't want to deal with Tom and Gatsby’s fight for their definition of “love”. Her frightened expressions, her looks to Gatsby causes her to fall deeper into herself. Fitzgerald complicates matters further when he writes, “ But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room” (Fitzgerald 142). After this she acts distant and doesn’t even come to Gatsby’s funeral. She leaves with her family without telling anyone they were leaving or where they were going. No one knew until Nick called to ask if she would come to Gatsby’s funeral, but she didn’t come to the phone and a servant answered and gave very vague answers that didn’t answer any of Nick’s