The most notable character who has exhibited such carelessness because of her obsession with wealth is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy lacks the ability to be genuine and truly care about others. For example, when she and Jay Gatsby gather at his mansion and he continues to show her how much wealth he has obtained, she becomes hooked. However, without his money, Gatsby himself is of much less value in her eyes. Daisy 's primary infatuation with Gatsby is his materialistic possessions and his extravagant lifestyle. For instance, when Gatsby tosses his beautiful, custom-made, silk shirts to Daisy, she is captivated and floored by them. Ross Posnock, a literary critic published in Critical Essays on Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, reveals that she is more interested in the shirts than Gatsby himself because "The intensity of feeling that the usually blasé Daisy reveals in this famous scene is more passionate and spontaneous than anything else she expresses in the novel" (208). In other words, Daisy 's response to the shirts is utterly alarming. She exhibits the most sensual and desirous feelings only when she is being surrounded by things with high monetary value, not when she is surrounded by Gatsby, who loves her more than anything else he has ever known. Daisy does not care about Gatsby 's heart, but instead his insurmountable abundance of
The most notable character who has exhibited such carelessness because of her obsession with wealth is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy lacks the ability to be genuine and truly care about others. For example, when she and Jay Gatsby gather at his mansion and he continues to show her how much wealth he has obtained, she becomes hooked. However, without his money, Gatsby himself is of much less value in her eyes. Daisy 's primary infatuation with Gatsby is his materialistic possessions and his extravagant lifestyle. For instance, when Gatsby tosses his beautiful, custom-made, silk shirts to Daisy, she is captivated and floored by them. Ross Posnock, a literary critic published in Critical Essays on Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, reveals that she is more interested in the shirts than Gatsby himself because "The intensity of feeling that the usually blasé Daisy reveals in this famous scene is more passionate and spontaneous than anything else she expresses in the novel" (208). In other words, Daisy 's response to the shirts is utterly alarming. She exhibits the most sensual and desirous feelings only when she is being surrounded by things with high monetary value, not when she is surrounded by Gatsby, who loves her more than anything else he has ever known. Daisy does not care about Gatsby 's heart, but instead his insurmountable abundance of