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    Daisy Buchanan, ‘devoted’ wife of Tom Buchanan, is by far the most perplexing yet distasteful character in The Great Gatsby. Mrs. Buchanan slowly starts to show her true colours of being naïve, puerile and coquettish the more submerged into the book the reader gets. Firstly, Daisy shows herself to be quite naïve after Nick is welcomed into her and Toms house at East Egg and into their lives once again, stating that her knuckle was black and blue after Tom hit her. “You did it Tom, I know you didn’t

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    The Great Gatsby Essay To many readers Daisy Buchanan appears to be a loving and caring woman. It’s not unusual to have pity on her either. However, in truth she is a self-centered and shallow woman who only looks out for her own. Daisy Buchanan could honestly care less if something or someone does not concern her wellbeing. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the color white to represent the superficial personality of Daisy Buchanan, which are characteristics of someone from

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    Jay Gatsby’s dream was to spend his life with Daisy Buchanan, but the only way he could ever be with her was if he had money. He knew that if he did not have money Daisy would not even consider him. Gatsby obtained great wealth through illegal activities such as bootlegging. “He and this Wolfsheim bought and sold grain alcohol over the counter” (133). Gatsby also lied about how he obtained his wealth because he knew that Daisy would not approve of his life style. He said, “My family all died and

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    opposite to another. One character who exhibits this trait is Daisy Buchanan. In this story Daisy Buchanan is a character who is introduced into a new and different life with Gatsby, which was a pleasant surprise to her. Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan, is having an affair with a woman named Myrtle, which causes Daisy’s decisions to create a chain reaction to all the people around her. By looking at all these events you could compare Daisy to the sun, the center of it all, and whatever she decides or

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    “That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 21). In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by Scott F. Fitzgerald, this quote is used by Daisy Buchanan to describe her little girl. Daisy is a beautiful and popular girl who married Tom Buchanan, who is controlling, thinks highly of himself, and extremely wealthy. Though she wants to be with Gatsby, she is too scared to leave Tom. Daisy’s close friend in the novel is Jordan, she grew up wealthy and is a famous

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    The theme at the heart of the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald lies in the doomed relationship between the protagonist, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the friend of Gatsby’s whom Gatsby finally confides in at the most tragic moment of his life, the story unfolds against the backdrop of the roaring 20’s. From the start the novel is laden with the pressures that the main characters are exposed to due to their social inequality, unlikeness in their heredity

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    City to learn the bond business and experience a new lifestyle. There, Nick meets a man named Gatsby who is obsessed with his cousin Daisy, but she is married to a man named Tom Buchanan. Gatsby past isn’t unveiled until later in the book and Nick describes him as having an extraordinary quality of hope. Daisy once loved Gatsby but decided to be with Tom because of his status and wealth. Although Gatsby is viewed as a stalker in some eyes, he is one of the most admirable character in this book because

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    In FSF’s novel the Great Gatsby Nick Carraway’s perspective is poetic, paced and arguably reliable. For example, when he is retelling his first encounter with Daisy Buchanan after many years, his description of her and the room she is in is reminiscient of an angel in the heavens both “sad and lovely” (9). His tone changes, however, as the novel goes on and grows more pessimistic by the page. In the end, his description of Daisy is of disgust and almost pity, “they were careless…” (179). According

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” is the story of an exclusive billionaire seeking love and prosperity, set on Long Island in New York during the “Jazz Age” of the 1920s. The wealthy man is named Jay Gatsby, and the love he seeks is that of Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to the affluent Tom Buchanan and lives just across the bay from Gatsby. She’s been described as having “A voice full of money”, and lives a highly luxurious lifestyle. She’s characterized in many different ways throughout

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    First I would like to discuss the characters. I found Daisy Buchanan very frustrating. I will admit her decision at the end of the novel was a hard one. Picking between the man you loved and your husband. I feel she made the process of the choice let alone her decision extremely difficult. Daisy stringed Gatsby along on an unfortunate ride to his doom, and after convincing him she still loved him and even verbally said it in front of our narrator, Nick, she still went away with Tom for reasons I

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