Kaitlin-Buchanan

DAISY BUCHANAN



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I, Daisy Buchanan, am a very sophisticated and beautiful individual. I am currently residing in the west, but previously I lived in East Egg in New York. I am married to my husband Tom and have a little girl named Pam my. I love the materialistic privileges that I have from being extremely wealthy. Wealth seems to attract me and make me happy more than any other thing. My love for materialistic things has not gone unnoticed throughout everywhere I have lived. Although I believe there is nothing wrong with this quality, I love being the center of attention. I will sometimes create situations just so I can be the center of attention. When my distant cousin was talking about the town that I had lived in before East Egg, I immediately asked him if everyone missed me. I knew that my friends and family would, but it made me even more excited when I heard that people were still fawning over me even though I wasn't even there. As well as my very interesting present and future, I've had a past that was interesting to say the least. In 1917, I fell in love with Jay Gatsby. We had a strong relationship and were planning to marry after he was done serving in World War I. The war seemed so long, and before Jay returned, I became married to a strong and wealthy man, my current husband Tom. When I lived in East Egg, I started to re-kindle these flames with Jay. However, he was shot and killed by a man known as George Wilson. Wilson shot Jay because he believed Jay had hit his wife, Myrtle, and killed her with a car. In actuality, it was me who hit Myrtle, but I decided it would be best to let Jay take the blame. Tom and I skipped out on Jay Gatsby's funeral and moved to the west, where we currently reside. I think that what influences me most in what I do and how I conduct myself is my want for happiness and wealth. I believe that as a woman, all I can be is a "beautiful fool", therefore wealth is what I really strive for and what influences a majority of my decisions.

Daisy Buchanan

Outside Views of Daisy Buchanan:

From Sparknotes: Nick's cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband's constant infidelity.

From http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/99_00/LM/dc.htm: For all practical purposes, Daisy Buchanan could be described as an undeniable beauty. In her first appearance, her face is portrayed to be sad and lovely. She has bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth. The way the wind is blowing the curtains (and the ladies’ dresses) around seems to suggest classic beauty, almost angelic and reminiscent of the Madonna. However, her best feature seems to be her voice. It’s enticing. It suggests gay things have been done and there is more gaiety to be done. Through most of the book, or at least several times, Fitzgerald points it out. Daisy knows how to use it, too. Nick has heard that she murmurs in a low, enrapturing way to get people to lean closer and pay more attention to her. This brings us to our next port of call. Daisy Buchanan is a self-centered ditz, and probably one of the worst things to happen to the women’s movement for equality. Her self-centeredness is apparent in the way that she murmurs. The fact that she’s rich (and married money) totally removed any thought of responsibility from her hollow head. As a plus, she was basically harmless, until the end of the book. That note brings us to the theme. At Gatsby’s party, she focused on the actress and the director, the two things there totally unaffiliated with reality. This helps us to see Daisy’s blind eye on reality. Her lack of responsibility shows through completely at the end. When she drives over Myrtle and doesn't even stop, she reveals the point that Fitzgerald was making though the whole book: the rich have no grasp on reality and no concept of responsibility. Daisy Buchanan had a “perfect” life. She was rich, beautiful, and she even got to have her cake and eat it too. I’m referring to her affair with Gatsby there. However, the fact that she had no grasp on reality and lacked any type of moral standards made her money and beauty worth absolutely nothing.

From www.novelguide.com: Daisy is Tom's 23-year-old wife, Nick's second cousin once removed, and Gatsby's version of the Holy Grail. For Daisy's romantic history involving Gatsby and Tom, please see Chapter 4. Nick comments repeatedly on Daisy's voice, first describing it as "the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again," (13) and later calling it "a deathless song" (101). Yet, her voice becomes silenced as Gatsby and Tom's battle for her escalates -- rather than choosing one or the other outright she acts helpless, seeming to ultimately remain with Tom because it is the easiest thing to do. In addition, she never acknowledges that she, not Gatsby, was driving when Myrtle was killed. As Nick characterizes both Buchanans, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (188).