How Does Daisy Buchanan Corrupt

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Daisy Buchanan, a 1920's flapper in the novel Great Gatsby is a beautiful, blonde haired, carefree trophy wife. Daisy seems to be picture perfect at the beginning of the novel with her big dream house on the water, her arrogant, rich husband, her extravagant, white clothes but this is not the case. Fitzgerald makes it so the reader sees Daisy through a façade, but throughout the novel, the real Daisy gets revealed. Nick, the narrator of the book is against judgement so he tries to hold back his opinions but within the events of story line, the reader obtains a clear picture of what kind of person Daisy Buchanan truly is. Daisy Buchanan's beauty and charisma sometimes overpower her corrupt and unethical ways but overall, she is a perfect embodiment …show more content…
Nick Caraway states at the beginning of the novel when meeting with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan for the first time in ages. Daisy has this way with people to make them feel important, like they mean something to her. In reality though, Daisy could care less about others and their feelings. What she cares about is money, in any way, shape or form. Daisy comes from old money, generations in her family are used to being able to have money to spend freely so she becomes absorbed in this lifestyle. She was not always been this way, though. Jordan, Daisy's good friend explains that at one point in time Daisy was not absorbed in the money but absorbed in a real, pure, true love with a man named Gatsby. Five years prior, Gatsby and Daisy shared a love that had nothing to do with money or material items, but a bond between a poor, military man and a rich, innocent girl. The love and innocence shortly ended though when the pressure of being a young woman in the 1920's set in. Daisy ended up marrying Tom Buchanan, whose money, materialistic ways, arrogant attitude and immoral behaviors began to morph Daisy in to the corrupt person she is …show more content…
Daisy's true colors start to show as soon as Gatsby reappears in her life. As Gatsby is showing Daisy his wardrobe she responds "'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled In the thin folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before'" (92). Of course, Daisy Buchanan has seen beautiful shirts because she has been rich her whole life but she is so dramatic because this is the moment when she realizes Gatsby now has enough money to take care of her. While her husband Tom has came from money which is much better, Tom takes advantage of Daisy. He has a mistress and clues hint that he has had others in the past. Gatsby, on the other hand would do anything and everything for Daisy and on top of that, now has money. Daisy recognizes this and slowly but surely starts to take advantage of Gatsby. She even kisses him on the mouth right in front of Tom, not because her love for Gatsby is there anymore but to make Tom jealous. This man who she once had real, innocent love for now is becoming someone Daisy can use as a tool to make her rich husband jealous. Daisy proceeds to lead Gatsby on and mindlessly makes decisions about who she wants to be with by listening to all the voices around her. In the end, Daisy's love for money overpowers any love for Gatsby or anyone other than herself