Great Gatsby Morally Ambiguous Characters

The Great Gatsby essay The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a man named Jay Gatsby who is living in the era which Fitzgerald referred to as the Jazz Age. The story is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway who characterizes himself as, “one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” Speaking of characterization, Fitzgerald writes masterfully to create morally ambiguous characters which have a huge impact on the story. Although George Wilson was morally ambiguous, Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are examples of characters with more impact on the story which are also morally ambiguous. Daisy Buchanan is a major example of a morally ambiguous character in the Great Gatsby. Daisy is introduced to the reader as Nick’s cousin who lives in East Egg. She is described as attractive and charming. Daisy's voice is her best feature, and is described as, "a wild tonic in the rain." She is also described as vacuous by Fitzgerald. When the reader is first introduced to Daisy, they learn that her husband, Tom, is cheating on her and has a mistress in New York City. Fitzgerald writes the story this way to make the reader feel bad for Daisy, and to make her seem better than she really is. Then Fitzgerald does something which makes the reader like Daisy even more, he introduces Gatsby and his love for Daisy. Gatsby had been waiting to meet with Daisy again for five years and he finally got the chance to when Nick arranges a meeting between them. The fact that he loves Daisy so much makes the reader think that she must be perfect or at the very least a good person. But Daisy is nowhere near perfect. She is cheating on her husband with Gatsby. Although this may be justified by Tom cheating on her. Then she runs over Myrtle Wilson and then just keeps driving without stopping. Then she let Gatsby take the blame for Myrtle's death and this led to Gatsby getting murdered by George Wilson. And after all of this, she doesn't even bother to go to Gatsby's