Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby
Daisy has been described as ‘selfish and shallow’. How far would you agree that this is how Fitzgerald portrays her?
Daisy Buchanan, in Fitzgerald’s 1920s American novel: ‘The Great Gatsby’, is the love of Jay Gatsby and the person he has devoted the last five years of his life to. Initially, Fitzgerald portrays her as pure, attractive and innocent, but gradually reveals her selfish and shallow personality. Ultimately, the reader feels that she is not a worthy objective of Gatsby’s dedication.
At first, Daisy is displayed as a strikingly extraordinary person, with pure morals. When Nick first meets her, he describes her voice as “an arrangement of notes that will be never played again”. Fitzgerald uses a technique called synecdoche to use her voice to represent her personality, so this shows that she is special and unique. She is also many times in the novel associated with white; she and Jordon were “both in white” when Nick meets them. White has connotations of purity and innocence, …show more content…
When she drives Tom away to kiss Gatsby, Jordan describes her as a “low, vulgar girl”, showing her inability to be loyal to one person in relationships. She represents the larger, morally deprived American society described in the novel, shown by how many other characters also commit adultery. Her laugh is “artificial” and she is shown to be living in an “artificial world”, depicting her superficial life and lack of care for the world. This brings doubts in the reader’s mind, as Gatsby may be devoting his life to an artificial person, showing the impossibility of him to achieve his dream. Nick “had heard” that “Daisy’s murmur was only to make you lean towards her”, portraying her as an attention seeker and a tease, without having any genuine feelings for the other person. Daisy’s immoral lifestyle makes her a lesser character and reduces her worth in the reader’s
Daisy Buchanan, in Fitzgerald’s 1920s American novel: ‘The Great Gatsby’, is the love of Jay Gatsby and the person he has devoted the last five years of his life to. Initially, Fitzgerald portrays her as pure, attractive and innocent, but gradually reveals her selfish and shallow personality. Ultimately, the reader feels that she is not a worthy objective of Gatsby’s dedication.
At first, Daisy is displayed as a strikingly extraordinary person, with pure morals. When Nick first meets her, he describes her voice as “an arrangement of notes that will be never played again”. Fitzgerald uses a technique called synecdoche to use her voice to represent her personality, so this shows that she is special and unique. She is also many times in the novel associated with white; she and Jordon were “both in white” when Nick meets them. White has connotations of purity and innocence, …show more content…
When she drives Tom away to kiss Gatsby, Jordan describes her as a “low, vulgar girl”, showing her inability to be loyal to one person in relationships. She represents the larger, morally deprived American society described in the novel, shown by how many other characters also commit adultery. Her laugh is “artificial” and she is shown to be living in an “artificial world”, depicting her superficial life and lack of care for the world. This brings doubts in the reader’s mind, as Gatsby may be devoting his life to an artificial person, showing the impossibility of him to achieve his dream. Nick “had heard” that “Daisy’s murmur was only to make you lean towards her”, portraying her as an attention seeker and a tease, without having any genuine feelings for the other person. Daisy’s immoral lifestyle makes her a lesser character and reduces her worth in the reader’s