The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was full of deception and lies‚ mainly from the female lead‚ Daisy. Daisy repeatedly lied and deceived both her husband and her lover. Daisy begins her path of destruction with her husband‚ who wasn’t all the innocent. Although Daisy married him‚ it wasn’t long until she fell out of that love and was craving more. Daisy was stuck in a loveless marriage with a daughter she couldn’t leave. To try and make things better‚ she lied. She lied to everyone; her husband
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Daisy Buchanan was one of the most ironic characters in the book The Great Gatsby. She appeared to be a nice‚ pure‚ and innocent woman in the beginning‚ but her true colors came out later near the end. Her words and actions began to show who she really was‚ making her major characteristics and physical attributes ironic. Daisy Buchanan showed a great lack of morality through her carelessness and recklessness‚ which was mainly because of excessive amounts of money and a lack of roots. One way in
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Who is Daisy Buchanan? She can be described as superficial‚ shallow‚ fake and ditzy. However‚ there is another part of her‚ a deeper part‚ that she hides from everyone‚ including herself. Beneath the surface‚ there is a pool where not even light dares to go. That is her character‚ and it takes Jay Gatsby to churn the waters and bring the purest form of Daisy to the surface‚ if only for an instant. At a first glance‚ Daisy is an utterly flat character‚ she came from wealth‚ she is currently wealthy
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dies. These animalistic characteristics seem to be portrayed throughout Gatsby’s character. He acts in manner as if Daisy were to not love him‚ he would die. In the book The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald‚ the main character Jay Gatsby becomes obsessed with the Daisy Buchanan and her love. He changes his entire persona to make himself a man that would fit best with her. Although Gatsby thought that Daisy’s love was the ultimate prize‚ his desperation is what lead to his own death. He was by no means
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Daisy Buchanan is Nick Carraway’s cousin‚ as a beautiful young women‚ she was loved by Gatsby and many others before the war in Louisville; they both fell in love with each and promised that they will get married once he returned only because Gatsby lied about his background about being in a wealthy family. Daisy couldn’t wait much longer because of how much she wanted to be loved by someone‚ she decided to marry a wealthy‚ young man‚ Tom Buchanan‚ once he asked her to marry to him. Daisy now lives
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this world‚ a beautiful little fool”‚ Daisy says in the book The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzerald (20). In her mind‚ to be foolish is the best way to survive in the 1920’s in America‚ an era when women are not treated as fairly as men. Based on Nick’s narration‚ Daisy is an extraordinarily charming‚ desirable‚ but careless and selfish character who is married to a wealthy and‚ powerful‚ young man named Tom Buchanan. Daisy breaks the promise with Gatsby‚ as a smart and subtle woman‚ who only
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In the Great Gatsby‚ Tom and Daisy are a wealthy couple who currently live on East Egg on Long Island. They often to drift “wherever people played polo and were rich together” (page 6). As individuals‚ Tom‚ born into wealth is arrogant‚ cruel‚ racist and an adulterer. He feels superior because his money goes back generations. He does crazy things like transport “a string of polo ponies” east‚ and spends “a year in France for no particular reason” (page 6). He has a mistress who he flaunts around
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Daisy Buchanan is Nicks cousin and is introduced to the story when Nick goes to her house for a visit. The house is a huge Georgian Colonial mansion situated in East Egg‚ overlooking the bay. She lives there with her husband‚ Tom‚ and her 3 month old daughter. It is clear from everything about them that they extremly rich and well off‚ but their money has made them arrogant. They feel that they‚ espically Tom‚ are better and more suprior than eveyone else and look down on and condesend to anyone
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hypocritical. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows his distaste towards the deceitful aristocratic class through Tom and Daisy‚ the two East Eggers. Both Tom and Daisy have been blessed with their luxurious lifestyle‚ but they become superficial through the hypocrisy within their relationships; frivolity for materialism and wealth; and lack of sympathy and moral values.
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Daisy’s struggle to choose between Gatsby and Tom represents traditional upper class society’s struggle to adapt to the nouveau riche of the Jazz Age. After realizing Gatsby expects her to leave Tom and the life she has always been accustomed to‚ Daisy cries‚ “What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that‚ and the next thirty years‚” (118). In asking what will happen‚ Daisy seeks to understand the percussions of leaving Tom for Gatsby. Daisy’s stress of the words ‘day after
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