Daisy Diary

Daisy´s Diary- Daisy meets Gatsby. (Chapter 4)

Friday 7th October, 1917

Dear Diary,

This fine evening the telephone in the house rang again, this time it was that lovely officer from Camp Taylor. I believe that he is the one I met the other day while having a ride with my roadster. To busy today, we arranged an encounter for tomorrow. The lovely Jordan Baker was also taking fresh air, it is not good to stay home all day, busy looking after personal issues. I am like an idol to her, Jordan that is, that sweet girl. Sad that I won’t be able to accompany her to meet those pleasant young officers when she grows a little older, but by that time I will already have my own classy companion. We will buy a gigantic front-line house, with huge windows were air always come in, and there is no need, therefore, to walk outside the house- it is sometime too hot out there.

Tomorrow evening I have already arranged on meeting, hopefully, a very pleasant man. Wearing my white lovely dress, that one that lifts a little because of the wind, I am sure to cause a delightful impression. He might even fall in love with me!

Saturday 8th October, 1917

Dear Diary,

Crossing the lilac-blue lilies, the just mowed grass; there I met the smart and clean-cut lieutenant. Jay Gatsby. He starred at me for a while, and it looked as if the world had just stopped. The birds were singing and the white-pink butterflies were fluttering around as they new something special was happening. His sparkly eyes looked close at me, those eyes that look as if they have seen what others haven’t, deep eyes that hide something- still don’t know what, though.
We chatted away all evening! Such a delightful pass of time. Oxford, Paris, Venice, Rome... so many places seen by such young eyes. One day he will take me with him, he has promised, and Jay is a man of honor- wealthy also, we will definitely have a fabulous time, with all those places to visit, and people to meet.
I have decided that I need no more. Love is what I see when he look’s at me, and love is what I want to continue seeing. Future arrangements with the Camp Taylor´s officers are over.

Tuesday 9th October, 1919

Dear Diary,

Jay left. War needs the participation of outstanding men like him- and Jay is the best. When he departed, I went to New York to see him off. Mother didn’t direct her words to me when I came back, rumors had spread through Louisville. It had been, however, certainly the finest month ever. However, Jay still hasn’t comeback- how unfortunate of me! A cold and gloomy year has passed without any notice of him. And my mum is becoming impatient; soon I should be finding a graceful companion. I have met a fine young man from Chicago- such a gentleman! He has taken me to visit marvelous and wonderful places- has promised me, of course, to retake our journey. He is definitely a very pleasant man. And, my parents love him; they say he is all that a man should be.
Maybe pleasing them isn’t such a bad idea after all- they do know better than myself.

Rationale

Through this diary I tried to show how Daisy felt when she met Gatsby. I believe that Daisy, even though she was very conscious about money and materialism, was also partly in love with Gatsby.

I try to show her innocent and playful side in the first diary entry; “Wearing my white lovely dress, that one that lifts a little because of the wind, I am sure to cause a delightful impression. He might even fall in love with me!” “by that time I will already have my own classy companion. We will buy a gigantic front-line house, with huge windows were air always come in..” With this phrase, my intention was to emphasize how Daisy is, to some extent, extremely naive. She believes that everything will go as planned. With this phrase, I also try to show how Daisy only thinks that marriage, a nice and big house, is the most important.

In the second diary entry, Daisy is in love with Gatsby. In the book, when Jordan is telling Nick the story about Daisy and Gatsby, she says that she saw them “…engrossed in each other..”. I tried to reflect this on her diary entry, when she says “He starred at me for a while, and it looked as if the world had just stopped. The birds were singing and the white-pink butterflies were fluttering around as if they new that something special was happening.” However, I also add small parts were her materialistic personality appears, “wealthy also, we will definitely have a fabulous time, with all those places to visit, and people to meet.”

Maybe Daisy loved Gatsby, however, because of the influences of those times, and the sense for materialistic needs that was very present in her surroundings- like her parents; she would have realized that she couldn’t wait for someone that will maybe never come back, and waste the opportunity of finding another love. Later on, she grows colder, realizing that in the world (her world), money is everything. This is when she meets Tom.
In the third diary entry I want to show this change. In the second diary entry, Daisy is innocent enough as to blindly believe that Jay will definitely come back to her- which is not impossible, but only very difficult; “... and Jay is a man of honor..”

During the whole Diary, I use words like “delighted”, “wonderful”, etc... Because these are words that Daisy would frequently use. I also try to write with a bubbly style, like she normally does; “The birds were singing and the white-pink butterflies were fluttering around as they new something special was happening.”.