Examples Of Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

In the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald a man in 1920’s New York by the name of Jay Gatsby

has waited 5 seemingly endless years for the "girl of his dreams" Daisy Buchanan. Little does he know getting

her back will be a harder task than ever expected. Throughout the book Gatsby and a mutual friend Nick

Caraway try to get Daisy back from her abusive, racist, cheating husband Tom Buchanan. Unexpectedly Tom

Buchanan furiously fights to keep his wife. Daisy is eventually caught between both her "lovers" reaching out to

her and is forced to face the biggest decision of her life. Daisy Buchanan is the most powerful character in the

33story.

Throughout the book Daisy Buchanan ceaselessly demonstrates her subtle power over Gatsby and Tom

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Although Gatsby already loved Daisy, she put

him in a position to fight Tom for her and he fell straight into her “trap” to get his attention and love temporarily.

“And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”(Fitzgerald 34).

While Daisy acts innocent and naive, she is fully aware of the power she holds over Tom and Gatsby.

Although Daisy’s “foolishness” is all an act, it gives her a powerful position throughout the story. In the story

Leaving Gilead, by Pat Carr Geneva and her daughter Saranell are in the Civil War and her husband Ian

Birdsong is off fighting in the war. Geneva, Saranell, and their slave end up having to leave their home in

Gilead. In the quote Geneva is getting ready to leave Gilead and she is looking at her wedding ring from

Ian Birdsong. "The foolish man. He rode straight up to my papa's veranda and dropped the ring in my lap and

asked me to marry him. He’d only met me once”(Carr 101).Geneva Birdsong similarly to Daisy Buchanan was

caught between two men that loved her. Geneva chooses the wrong man to marry and is miserable like

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