Although Daisy seems to have found love in her reunion with Gatsby, closer examination reveals that is not at all the case. Although she loves the attention, she has considerations other than love on her mind.
First, she knows full well Tom has had affairs for years. Might this not motivate her to get back at him by having an affair of her own? Next, consider Daisy's response to Gatsby's wealth, especially the shirts — does someone in love break into tears upon being shown an assortment of shirts? For Daisy and Gatsby too, for that matter the shirts represent wealth and means. When Daisy bows her head and sobs into the shirts, she is displaying her interest in materialism. She doesn't cry because she has been reunited with Gatsby, she cries because of the pure satisfaction all his material wealth brings her.
He has become a fitting way in which to get back at Tom. When Tom and Gatsby have their altercation at the hotel in Chapter 7, Daisy's motivations are called into question: Her inability to deny having loved Tom speaks well for her, but at the same time, it suggests that her attachment to Gatsby has been purely business.
Tom also knows that after Daisy realizes Gatsby is not of their same social circles, she will return to Tom for the comfort and protection that his money and power bring. Although Daisy's true self comes out more and more each time Nick encounters her, her final actions help show what she has been really made of. When she hits and kills Myrtle Wilson, and then leaves the scene, readers know as poor Gatsby still does not that she is void of a conscience.
Perhaps all that white that has surrounded her isn't so much purity although Gatsby, of course, would see it as such , but perhaps the white represents a void, a lack as in a lack of intellectualism and a lack of conscience. To Daisy, Myrtle is expendable.
She is not of the social elite, so what difference does her death make? On the other hand, Great Gatsby and Daisy were so different from the first time they met. He was poor, but so pure. Daisy Buchanan has a very important role in the book — that is to create Jay Gatsby! It was her inability to love the man just for who he was that created the Great Gatsby everybody knows. As it is stated in Chapter 6, Gatsby created himself to resemble his beloved woman more:. Another important role of Daisy character is to demonstrate the mastery of Fitzgerald to create a character that can be so appealing and cherished by the readers.
Since the author went to great pains to describe the social conditions of those times and the reasons for many actions Daisy took — the readers feel that they understand and can forgive her. The path to understanding Daisy lies beyond her character. She is a puzzle and a key to understanding the sadness and the decay of the Jazz Age. She reflects the problems of the whole humanity that are present in any society at any stage of its development.
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Daisy Buchanan is a character in The Great Gatsby. She is the wife of Tom Buchanan and serves as Gatsby's love interest. She is also the cousin of Nick Carraway , the novel narrator. Daisy Fay was born in to a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. Like many women of the time, she marries for money, particularly to Tom Buchanan.
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