Analysis Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said, “The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the man.” Woman want to feel loved, to feel safe, to feel seen, to be appreciated, and to feel like she can count on you.This quote could be used to portray F. Scott Fitzgerald characters actions in The Great Gatsby. Many of the girls desires, motives, and needs can drive a man to adventually crash and ultimately die in a pool of his own emotions and broken dreams.

Daisy Buchanan is like the flower. She was a typical dream girl, with the blonde hair and married to a very wealthy man. She is a very delicate person who has her own motivation, and needs. She is known to be a soft person because of how she acts towards the other characters. Nick said,“ Wild rumors were circulating about her- how her mother had found her
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In that day in age she was known to be a flapper. She also have desires, motivations, and needs. Nick once said, "At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers- a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semifinal round."(57) This quotation is significant because is shows that she cheated in the golf games to make it seem like she was more masculine in a male sport. Jordan is unmarried and throws herself at Nick. Nick and Jordan have a reversal relationship, where Nick is the feminine one and Jordan is the masculine. Jordan also is sneaky. Her motive for protecting Daisy was to keep quiet about Daisy and Gatsby's relationship.

In conclusion, Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was trying to say that women have different motivations,desires,and needs. All of the three women portrayed different aspects of the modern 1920’s women. He was trying to recreate his own life through this book, with his unfortunate relationships. Indira Gandhi once said “ there is not love where there is no