Theme Of Nature In The Great Gatsby

Characters are arguably the most important factors contained in all stories. Each and every one serves a purpose and is extremely important to the concept of the story. They are not only used to tell the story, but to represent certain ideas and themes the author is trying to portray. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, he uses a variety of character types to do just that. The characters in The Great Gatsby give the novel diversity and help show Fitzgerald’s prominent ideas about the sinfulness, and the integrity of human nature in their own ways. A few characters noteworthy of illustrating these concepts are Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby.
Tom Buchanan is a character who strongly represents Fitzgerald’s ideas about
As Tom’s wife, it is not shocking that she is just as licentious as he is. In addition to being an unfaithful spouse to Tom as he is to her, she is even more obsessed with social status. She is even described as having a “voice full of money”, giving her an “inexhaustible charm” (Fitzgerald 120). It is believed that Daisy only chose Tom over Gatsby because Tom had more money at the time. This is basically proven when she cries over Gatsby’s fancy, expensive shirts during her affair with him. It is suspected that she is crying because she realizes what she could have had (Gatsby’s money and faithfulness) versus what she ended up with (Tom’s money and unfaithfulness). Tom and Daisy’s wedding day is an excellent example of Daisy choosing money over her feelings. She gets incredibly intoxicated and begins sobbing and having second thoughts after reading a letter she receives from Gatsby, Because she was drinking, her true feelings were shown. As soon as she sobers up, she continues on her quest of obtaining high social status and marries Tom. Like mentioned before, she refuses to divorce Tom because doing so would demolish her social status. She is a character of no substance who only cares about being seen from a wealthy standpoint in the eyes of others, much like an actress she sees at one of Gatsby’s parties. According to Bewley Marius, Daisy seems to take an interest in this woman most likely because they are so similar. Fitzgerald incorporates this character into the story and draws Daisy’s attention toward her to show just how empty that the character of Daisy undoubtedly is (Bloom 19). If she would just stop caring about what other what other people think of her, and focus more on her morals, integrity, and true feelings, Daisy would be so much happier. Daisy is a perfect example of one of the characters that Fitzgerald uses to show how flawed the human