Significance Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

Daisy still thought she had everything. Wealth, love and happiness, which all fall into the category of The American dream, but she discovers that she has nothing. Daisy actually has a child who doesn’t seem significant to her. The kid is never around, which shows quite a bit about Daisy. When her kid was born, Daisy said, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world. A beautiful fool.” (Fitzgerald, page 22) Daisy pretty much explained that there are limited possibilities for women, and she would have rather had a boy so the child could be successful. Women in the 1920s-1930s all married for money, not love. She thought she had love when she married Tom, but in the long run, she comes out with only money. When reunited with Gatsby, Daisy breaks down and starts to cry. “They’re such beautiful shirts, it makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.” (The Great Gatsby, page 89) At the time Daisy realizes that she if she would have married Gatsby, she would had both love and money. …show more content…
His love and chase for Daisy had taken over his whole life. He felt that he had to live up to the American dream to get what he really wants, which is Daisy, and wealth of course. Daisy has always been rich, and Gatsby thought that to get her back, he needs to have money so he can get her when she wants to. There was a green light where Daisy lives, is what Gatsby thought, that he would always look out and reach out for. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – to-morrow we will run farther, stretch out our arms farther…." (Fitzgerald, page 180-182) The green light is a major part of this book, but it becomes evident that this green light wasn’t Daisy, but a symbol of Gatsby’s