Character Analysis Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

Jay Gatsby can be characterized as a war veteran who is simply desperate to regain his young love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby has spent many years changing his life in order to win Daisy back, but when they finally meet again, “… Daisy tumbled short of his dreams” (Fitzgerald 95). Gatsby spent years building up an elaborate imagination of what he thought Daisy would be like when he finally met with her again. Not only does he spend many years thinking about her, he uses his time becoming the man he thinks Daisy wants. The way Gatsby changes his whole life for a woman speaks loudly about his character. Daisy Buchanan is a questionable character who, in ways, lets the reader down. Quickly, the author reveals Daisy’s character when he announces that Tom, Daisy’s husband, has “some woman in New York” (Fitzgerald 15). This news is startling because Daisy knows about the other woman. At this point, the reader can start to wonder what kind of person Daisy is for having knowledge of the affair, but doing absolutely nothing about it. At first the reader could see Daisy as this beautiful, elegant woman, but is then let down given the fact that Daisy is doing nothing about her husband’s affair. Tom Buchanan is undeniably an arrogant, hypocritical, and morally challenged character in The Great Gatsby. Although he had an affair with
In order to fulfill her dreams of being wealthy and glamorous, Myrtle “has some sort of life apart from [George] in another world” (Fitzgerald 124). Essentially, Myrtle believes that by having an affair with Tom Buchanan, she is moving up the social ladder. But instead of helping her situation, the affair eventually leads to Myrtle’s fate, death. Furthermore, Myrtle was a character who wanted to achieve the American Dream so badly, but could never fully achieve it because of her social