“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” This line, from H. Jackson Brown, Jr. is the perfect representation of what love should be: a mutual feeling that makes the lovers feel the need to make the other person happy in sacrifice for their own. In The Great Gatsby, this is exactly what happens with Jay Gatsby. However the feelings are not reciprocated by Daisy Buchanan, his lover, or at least not to same extent. In the realistic fiction, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the reader follows the tragic story of Jay Gatsby’s love through the eyes of a third party Nick Caraway, the narrator. The readers see how Daisy enchants Jay and how he gets sucked in to the point of no return. Eventually, her spell causes his end and her true nature to be revealed. Daisy Buchanan is a self-absorbed, vacuous socialite whose decisions lead to the destruction of both Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson.
In the book, the true nature of Daisy Buchanan isn’t really revealed until the end of the story. She originally seems to be an honest innocent girl who gives those she encounters the idea that she cares deeply about them just by the tone of her voice. However, she is actually self-absorbed, flighty and …show more content…
Her own happiness is more important than everyone else’s happiness around her, even if it ends up destroying everyone around her. Scott Fitzgerald writes Daisy in such a way that the readers can feel her destruction working its toll as they flip through his pages. The suffering that occurs with Gatsby’s calamitous love for our fickle filly is so palpable that The Great Gatsby is not surprisingly one of the greatest American novels of all time. Daisy’s old money way of nature and her insufferable thoughtlessness gives the story its odious “incorruptible angel” (Baker). Daisy Buchanan is the true evil of The Great
In the book, the true nature of Daisy Buchanan isn’t really revealed until the end of the story. She originally seems to be an honest innocent girl who gives those she encounters the idea that she cares deeply about them just by the tone of her voice. However, she is actually self-absorbed, flighty and …show more content…
Her own happiness is more important than everyone else’s happiness around her, even if it ends up destroying everyone around her. Scott Fitzgerald writes Daisy in such a way that the readers can feel her destruction working its toll as they flip through his pages. The suffering that occurs with Gatsby’s calamitous love for our fickle filly is so palpable that The Great Gatsby is not surprisingly one of the greatest American novels of all time. Daisy’s old money way of nature and her insufferable thoughtlessness gives the story its odious “incorruptible angel” (Baker). Daisy Buchanan is the true evil of The Great