Who Is Daisy's Personality In The Great Gatsby

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According to the Wikipedia “Personality is a set of individual differences that are affected by the development of individual: values, attitudes, personal memories, social relationship, habits, and skills.” Everyone has different personalities. In books, we can find character’s personalities according their actions, behavior, and attitudes. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby has a Narcissistic personality, Daisy has an Enabling personality and Tom has a Solipsistic personality. Gatsby has a Narcissistic personality. First reason of Gatsby’s Narcissistic personality is his parties. He always tried to act as he is special. Also, he wanted to prove that he has money, he is attractive and good. He thought that only he can

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