When she was young, my cousin honestly believed that everything that glittered was gold. Regardless, my aunt relentlessly told her that the “stuffed unicorn,” or that “new dress” would never keep her satisfied whereas “friends and family” would accomplish that and more. Like my aunt’s words of wisdom, several characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated work The Great Gatsby focus too greatly on things, taking their attention away from the real pleasures in life that is people. A character that resembles these qualities is Daisy Buchanan who is the wealthy wife of Tom Buchanan and an East Egger. To reside in East Egg, New York means that one is not only extremely wealthy, but also known for his or her reserved and mannered behavior.
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Through the nature of Daisy, it is displayed how people essentially trade their love of people for wealth, believing that it leads to true joviality. In the year of 1917 and before Gatsby is sent to The Great War, Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy’s, observes the intimate connection between both Gatsby and Daisy stating, “[Daisy] was dressed in white, and had a little white roadster…that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant [Jordan] had never seen before. They were so engrossed in each other that she hadn’t seen [Jordan] until [she] was five feet away” (Fitzgerald, 74). Here, Fitzgerald employs the literary devices of color symbolism and repetition both on the focus of “white.” The color symbolism of “white” exhibits how before the war, Daisy is deemed pure and sacred. Therefore, the repetition and the symbolic use of “white” presents and enforces how Daisy is free of materialistic desires when she is with Gatsby who represents true love. In addition, to be incapable of seeing Jordan until “five feet away,” suggests that Daisy is completely
Through the nature of Daisy, it is displayed how people essentially trade their love of people for wealth, believing that it leads to true joviality. In the year of 1917 and before Gatsby is sent to The Great War, Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy’s, observes the intimate connection between both Gatsby and Daisy stating, “[Daisy] was dressed in white, and had a little white roadster…that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant [Jordan] had never seen before. They were so engrossed in each other that she hadn’t seen [Jordan] until [she] was five feet away” (Fitzgerald, 74). Here, Fitzgerald employs the literary devices of color symbolism and repetition both on the focus of “white.” The color symbolism of “white” exhibits how before the war, Daisy is deemed pure and sacred. Therefore, the repetition and the symbolic use of “white” presents and enforces how Daisy is free of materialistic desires when she is with Gatsby who represents true love. In addition, to be incapable of seeing Jordan until “five feet away,” suggests that Daisy is completely