The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Quotes

Daisy Buchanan is the wife of Tom Buchanan. She was always the height of fashion who lives in East Egg, Long Island. She also exhibits signs of becoming a “new woman” but values are old fashion. was caught between old and new values. She was married for money. “Her voice is full of money.” If the “New Women” were married. They stayed home and looked after their children while the husband worked in weekly wage. If they were single women, they worked as a waitress, cooking, etc. Many of them were expected to get married and to have children. The Typical Women were rebelled in every aspect by liberating in jobs, personality and clothing. It made them independent. And they started to cut their hair, and wore revealing clothing and smoked. “That huge place there, do you like it? “I love it”. Daisy glares at Gatsby’s house from Nicks garden and becomes very interested. Everything she sees in his house is …show more content…
She is in the rich upper class and lives at Daisy’s house. But she also struggles to maintain her independence as a woman. Jordan is careless. She goes to places all by herself and goes to Gatsby’s [arties with some of her friends. She is hurt by Nick abandoning her, but doesn’t “give a damn about him”. She looked down on Nick for his class “new- money” and remarked contemptuously “You live in the West Egg”. She is for certain not afraid at all to speak her mind. Even in front of the “dominant figure”, she tells tom that “he’s such a snob”. She will do anything, and will even lie to make things go her way. “She left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it” only so she could get herself out of being at fault. Jordan is the only character seeming to reverse the gender roles. But in the end, she’s still dominated by Nick who ends their relationship. None of the female characters are the “Madonna” kind since none of them are absolutely