Character Analysis Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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The novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the state of New York during the Jazz Age. Money is the center of many of the characters lives and their money gives them the entitlement to cause great destruction and later retreat into their wealth. Much like the lives of everyone titled around Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan.

Gatsby had all the money in the world; however, he didn’t think he had the entitlement to anything but Daisy. “ ‘She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone but except me’ ” (Fitzgerald 130). Jay Gatsby explained that Daisy left him because
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in the end she reveals her real true colors, for what she really is. Despite her beauty and charm, Daisy is nothing more than a shallow, selfish, hurtful, gold digger of a women. Although Fitzgerald makes Daisy’s character seem like an innocent, and pure human. In the end, we all see what kind of person Mrs. Daisy really is. Daisy is, in my opinion thought of as an “angel on earth”. She is most of the time dressed or seen around with the color white. She has a white dress, loved white flowers, has a white car, ex. But better than that, “lovely,” Daisy Buchanan, other than being such the ”perfect angle” she is, she was down right a gold digger. As the novel goes deeper in depth on Daisy’s character, we are given the information about her husband's affair, which she is completely aware of, why doesnt she confront him and do something about it? Because her husband is wealthy, and has power, and Daisy enjoys the benefits from this. She enjoys the money and power so much that she is willing to completely ignore the fact that her husband she “loves so dearly” is having an affair. Daisy, in a way kind of feels the need to have an affair it her husband, considering the fact he has been doing it for years, which drives her to Gatsby. Daisy knows that he has money and the perfect example of this is when Gatsby throws all of the shirts on the table, - Suddenly, with a strained sound, - Daisy bent