Vacuous Socialite In The Great Gatsby

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r to blind herself from her own destruction in which she created. She caused the death of Gatsby and Myrtle and she doesn 't feel bad about it. She ruined not only those two lives but she permanently damaged the lives of the people who surrounded Jay and Myrtle. Yet, she feels nothing when she does this. In conclusion, Daisy Buchanan is a vacuous socialite whose decisions lead to the destruction of both Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson.

In The Great Gatsby we come to find out that Daisy and Tom have a daughter Pammy. And as Daisy is talking to Nick, Fitzgerald wrote “she added irrelevantly: “you ought to see the baby.” (Fitzgerald, 9). When Daisy says this she is showing that Daisy doesn 't really care for Pammy. Pammy is basically just a trophy for Daisy to show people and then tuck away back in the closest. When Daisy wants to seem like a nice women, she takes out Pammy and shows her off really quick and then sends her back to her nurse. While Gatsby and Nick were visiting the Buchanan’s house, Nick says “ he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don 't think he had ever really believed in its existence before” (Fitzgerald 117). This is a very important part of the
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan is the lover of two men. One man she loves for riches and status and the other man she loves is for love. She uses both of these men for her own selfish intentions in which she benefits from both of them. Daisy is “ the villain-heroine(baker 1) ” in this novel and she shows that by the way she treats her daughter, her husband, and her lover. In The Great Gatsby the main theme that comes across is using people to get where you want. Weather that 's using two different men as your lovers or having bringing other people down to get ahead of them, selfishness is shown through the book and particularly in Daisy

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