Daisy And Criseyde In The Great Gatsby

In the book The Great Gatsby, Daisy is very similar to Criseyde in Troilus and Criseyde. They both come from affluent families and have broken love stories. Nick mirrors Pandarus in this book by aiding Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion with a tea party. Where as Gatsby mirrors Troilus, the secret lover, Tom mirrors Diomede, the one the girl stays with. Both Daisy and Criseyde are persuaded into something, either falling in love or falling out of love with someone. Both girls wish to be unaware of the harsh world around them and are controlled by the men and society they live in.
Compared to Criseyde, who is unaware that Pandarus is playing her, Daisy is much more aware of the world. The first time we see her there is balloon and air imagery that suggests she is an airhead and doesn’t know much about the world or Tom’s affair. When she has just given birth and finds out her child is a girl and hopes “she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”(17). She wants her daughter to be oblivious to all of the bad things in life. This could be because she knows about Tom’s affair and is hurt by it and hopes that if that happens to her daughter she will not know; therefore, she will not be sad or hurt by him. She wishes she were unaware of the affair and probably that Gatsby lives across the bay. She also
In today’s society women are still not completely equal to men. However, unlike Daisy and Criseyde, women know about all of the bad things that happen in the world. Often, women are persuaded into doing something they do not necessarily want to. This could be anything from going into a field of study that does not interest them to getting married and moving away from her family. Women avoid doing things that are out of the ordinary, which is why Daisy had to stay with Tom instead of going with