Daisy Buchanon Quotes In The Great Gatsby

‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly...It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it…. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl….”(Fitzgerald 127). Daisy only cares about what other people can do for her. She wants everything to come to her quickly. When Gatsby leaves for the war, she seems to forget about him and when Tom comes around, she just marries him. She could have just waited patiently for Gatsby to come back and show her loyalty to him, but she changes, like the seasons change. Her voice also has a seductive charm to it as well: “Daisy's voice was playing murmurous tricks in her throat. "These things excite me so," she whispered. "If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you...I'm giving out green−.”(110) She acts like a completely different person then when she talks in front of Tom. This shows her rebellious streak against Tom as he is already cheating on her. Tom is a domineering spouse who wants complete control of the women in his life.This, however, doesn’t justify her cheating on him. Daisy

When someone comes off too eager for something they desire, sometimes the satisfaction won’t meet the expectations they primarily had. The thrill to chase that dream has vanished and has now turned into a bland, dull thought. Gatsby’s memory of Daisy had changed and then builds her up to more than she actually is. He then proceeds to market Daisy as something completely different. The tendency for Gatsby trying to lie to himself about his memory of Daisy has faded and is now trying hopelessly to revive his past feelings about Daisy. “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity”(Fitzgerald 92). The cumbersome attitude of Gatsby towards

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses numerous allusions in its story. The Great Gatsby is a novel that takes place in the summer of 1922, in New York City. It tells of a very wealthy Jay Gatsby, who’s believed to have earned his money in dishonest or illegal ways, and his endeavors to court Daisy Buchannon. Daisy is the wife a another very wealthy Tom Buchannon, and he gets in touch with her through Nick Carraway, a middleclass neighbor who narrates the story. There are many significant and clever allusions and representations in Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby.

Gatsby: Oh Jesus,you just hit that girl we should go back and help pick up her body and bury her

All daisy wants in life is to keep her social status and power, not to use it but to keep it and even though Tom can provide that she finds an old love in Gatsby that she feels comfortable having now, not because she has him or found him but because he has money now. It all revolves around money for her “Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. ‘They're such beautiful shirts’... ‘It makes me sad because i've never seen such-such beautiful shirts” As Daisy cries over these shirts it's really one of the biggest moments where it shows how wildly she care about material objects, how much it truly means to her to have the finest of things and no less. Because all Daisy really cares about is her wealth she doesn't care how she gets it, no matter if once again Nick is in an awkward situation or that she might not realy love the man who has done everything in his life leading up to that moment for her, she just cares that it's all

Daisy is one of the main characters whose obsession with wealth influences her life decisions. “ Her voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald 128). this quote shows that even people around Daisy can hear the longing for money in her voice. She is obsessed with money and thinks that if she has it she will achieve happiness. “ She wanted her life shaped now, immediately- and the decision must be made by some force-of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality-” (Fitzgerald 161). Daisy thought money and love would make her life more fulfilled and she believed it was the only way for it to be more adequate. She wanted her life to be perfect and she was willing to go with whoever could provide her more money and love. In Daisy’s marriage with Tom she felt a lack of love because of Tom’s mistress, which is why she was drawn to Gatsby once again. When Gatsby and Daisy first met he was lacking money but they were in love. Daisy was consumed by the idea that she must have both money and love in order to get happiness, that she ended

Daisy Buchanan is a very materialistic woman. Not only does she marry Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man, she believes that money makes everything better. Her ideologies about wealth, and the fact that she pays dearly for her wealth and fails to care, shows her obsession with financial stability. In a sense, regardless of how badly Tom treats her, she fails to care. Instead, she holds tightly to the idea that money is the cure-all for everything. The night before their wedding, she wants to call everything off and not marry him but she decides to go through with it because of her desire of money. Daisy and Gatsby get reunited 5 years later and Daisy is filled with regret regarding her decision to marry Tom. Tom cheated on Daisy on their honeymoon,

Daisy sacrifices love and happiness for being wealthy. Nick believes “that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of [her] house, child in arms-but apparently there were no such intentions in her head” (25). In making this comment, Nick argues that Daisy refuses to break off her marriage to Tom because she will lose her “membership” to the East Egg social class. Not even Gatsby, who is one of the wealthiest men in the Northeast, can convince her to leave him. In Roberts’ literary criticism, she describes the aspects of Gatsby that Daisy disapproves. Roberts claims that Gatsby “Misread[s] the signs of American gentility … [by moving] to West Egg, instead of the more elegant East Egg (Fahey 74), [and throwing parties that] attract theatre people and gate crashers rather than a social elite” (Roberts) which repulses Daisy. In making this remark, Roberts claims that Gatsby is not everything Daisy could want. His mansion’s location and guests at his party ultimately is not enough to motivate Daisy to leave Tom. Close states that “we can’t be happy without at least one meaningful, close relationship.” Her claim that a close relationship brings happiness rests upon the questionable assumption that people in close relationships are always happy. In fact, some close relationships can bring more despair than joy. Hence, the cause of unhappiness for wealthy people, like Daisy, can be avoided if they choose their overall wellbeing over the amount of money they

Daisy Buchanan is an example of (wanting, more than anything else, to buy and own lots of nice things) because of what we know about her from her younger days. She was a young lady that was in love with Gatsby, but didn't marry him because "I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me." (137). (wanting, more than anything else, to buy and own lots of nice things) affected Daisy and when she married Tom she wanted only the best things, but realized that she wasn't happy because money can't buy you happiness. After seeing Gatsby for the first time in over five years, it seems like Daisy has become that young lady she was before she met and married Tom. For a second she forgot all of her selfish things and was looking up into the sky and GOD, saying "'...I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.'"(99). Now we see her (related to religion or the soul) side and see that Gatsby could have possible reinforced her identity. Although Daisy showed herself as a very happy

Daisy, who is married to Tom, once fell in love with Jay Gatsby, but Gatsby did not have money, so she married Tom. On Pg. 130 Gatsby says, “ She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.” Even though Daisy had once loved Gatsby she gave it all up for money. She believes the lie that this is the best way to live life. On Pg. 17 when Nick asks her about her little girl she responds with, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” Daisy never loved Gatsby the way that Gatsby loved her. If she did, she wouldn’t have left him for Tom. She wouldn’t have let money control her and she would have stayed by his side through thick and thin, like I am convinced Gatsby would have.

Nick notes that "It was hard to realize that a man of [his] own generation" is quite as wealthy as Tom really is (Fitzgerald 10). After all, Daisy married for money instead of love. It’s made clear that she loves Gatsby far more than she loves Tom, but grew tired of waiting before she finally decided to marry Tom. By the night before her wedding, it was too late for her to change her mind. "She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on her bed and pulled out the string of pearls. ‘Take ‘em downstairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to. Tell ‘em all Daisy’s change her mine. Say ‘Daisy’s change’ her mine!’" (Fitzgerald 81). Her pathetic, drunken attempt to break a commitment by returning a gift is too little too late; Daisy’s desire to remain rich through union to Tom could not counter-act her love for Gatsby.

She gave him the illusion that a future with her was possible however; she had no intentions of leaving Tom for Gatsby, “I did love him [Tom] once -- but I loved you [Gatsby] too” (132, 26). Daisy was privileged from the moment she was born and would never trade this lifestyle so it is no surprise that she married a man such as Tom. Tom came from a wealthy family who possessed “old money” while Gatsby recently became wealthy and obtained “new money.” Daisy could never leave Tom and change the lifestyle she’s lived since birth, “Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom” (133, 3). She leads Gatsby to believe that she would leave Tom for him but when the argument arose, she fled back to Tom. It is almost as if Daisy and Tom have an agreement to always come back to each to other if one of them is ever to stray. The only people every burned by the affairs are the other party. Daisy represents the corruption of wealth and materialism. She knows that her husband is committing adultery, the ultimate sin, but she stays with him for his money. It is clear that Daisy loves money when she is getting a tour of Gatsby’s room and she sees his clothing. “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such–such beautiful shirts before” (92, 22). This is a display of how materialistic items are a necessity in her

Daisy Buchanan is the most disappointing and confusing character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald beautifully constructs Daisy’s character. At first sight, Daisy is an innocent and angel like young woman worthy of the admiration, love, and devotion of Jay Gatsby, but though out and in the end Daisy reveals her true colors as another unhappy, selfish, and shallow East Egg individual by choosing security over true love. And as Nick Carraway gets to know his cousin, Daisy, he realizes that her beauty and supposed cluelessness is a mask to hide the fact that she is leading an unhappy life with Tom Buchanan who isn't who she’s truly in love with. From the beginning, Daisy is portrayed as innocent and angel like being surrounded

Daisy Buchanan has a similar lifestyle to Tom, she’s wealthy ‘voice is full of money’ and always wore ‘white’ symbolising her purity and wealth. However as a woman of a higher class, there not much she can do in her ‘shallow life’, as she has the money but doesn’t know how to plan events ‘what do people plan?’. This shows that she is not content with her knowledge and understanding of life therefore even with money she isn’t ‘happy’. This leads her to ‘have an affair’ with an ex-lover whom she so adored before she married Tom ‘I did love him once – But I loved you too’. In the novel, Daisy only every seeks true love when she’s with Gatsby but ‘a rich girls don’t marry poor boys’, so due to this social difference between them, she knows the only place she will ever have security is with Tom. Tom describes their affair as a ‘presumptuous little flirtation’ because to Daisy, she knew she was never going to marry Gatsby but to Gatsby it was just never

Gatsby remembers Daisy as the pretty girl from North Dakota he fell in love with when he was in the military. He soon sees that she is different, although he denies it, even to himself. In order for Daisy to have a relationship with Gatsby, when they first meet he lies and says his parents are actually wealthy. This is the first example of how society dictates Daisy’s life. Because of her social status, Daisy must marry a rich man, preferably from old money, according to society. When Gatsby leaves, Daisy promises that she will wait for him, yet she instead marries Tom Buchanan, an extremely wealthy man who her parents approve of. Even when Tom cheats on Daisy, and she is fully aware of it, she refuses to leave him. She loves her status and money so much she will not give it up even at the expense of her happiness.