The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Innocence Quotes

anger. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan, who is one of the main characters, is portrayed just as innocent as a flower. Although trapped between two conflicting relationships, she manages cause two people to hate each other and remain innocent. In this novel, one discovers how Daisy adds hostility to the story. The first instance of when Daisy adds hostility to the novel through her innocence is when Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are arguing amongst each other. Gatsby says, “Your wife doesn’t love you. She’s never loved you. She loves me” (Fitzgerald 130). But then Buchanan replies with, “You must be crazy!” (Fitzgerald 130). This quote explains the intense animosity that Daisy has created by her innocence because Daisy had once loved the both of them, but now that Daisy supposedly found the right person, Gatsby is extremely irritated. Haphazardly, Daisy becomes centered in this animosity even though she did not intentionally cause it, thus making her innocent. Secondly, Daisy adds hostility to the novel through her lack of knowledge. Daisy is unaware of the fact that …show more content…
Towards the end of the novel, Daisy drives home as reckless as she could possibly be, resulting in Myrtle Wilson’s death. Daisy was a “...principal character female character in The Great Gatsby, betrays Jay Gatsby's love and is responsible for his murder. She is lovely, charming, and lethal” (Bruccoli). Daisy was indeed solely responsible for the death of Myrtle Wilson and ended up promoting the murder of Gatsby simply by her being careless. Another example is when Nick Carraway calls Tom and Daisy careless. He narrates, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…” (Fitzgerald 179). Nick calls Daisy careless because the way she would essentially hit-and-run with everything she would