Biases In The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald uses the relationships of Tom, Myrtle, Daisy, and Gatsby to refer to the inevitable feeling that

Daisy married rich after Gatsby left to war, she wanted to have the perfect family and be supported so she married Tom. When Gatsby and Daisy were reunited, she said “I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts” as she cried. This shows that now that Daisy is becoming emotional as she never is with tom. She always knew Gatsby to be a poor solider who barley had any money to now, crying over how nice his shirts are. Gatsby is impacting Daisy’s life in negative and positive ways, Positive being she is more herself when she is with him.

Shrouded in secrecy and deceit, Jay Gatsby is notorious for his exuberant and distinctive parties and infinite riches and assets of exotic origins. Despite possessing everything a man in the Roaring Twenties might have desired, Fitzgerald's legendary Gatsby still yearns to rekindle his romance with his old flame, affluent socialite Daisy Buchanan. As expected, his prosperity captivates Daisy sufficiently to cause her to doubt her fidelity to her old-money husband, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby, however, takes it farther and deceives everyone in his vicinity.

If she was considerate and truly loved him, she would have waited for him to return and would not have led him on again knowing she would not leave Tom. Her decision displays Daisy’s weakness through her lack of empathy and thoughtfulness towards Gatsby’s feelings as she prioritizes her desires over him. To conclude, Daisy's inconsiderate behavior

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy possesses extreme power and control over Jay Gatsby. Daisy, though a woman in a predominantly male-dominated time period, uses her attractiveness to manipulate the ‘great’ Jay Gatsby to her advantage. As the novel progresses, Daisy has many different roles. She is initially portrayed as Tom’s trophy wife without much purpose, aside from representing Tom’s ‘prize’ for success. As we learn more, we find out about her and Gatsby’s past five-year relationship.

The era’s “perfect woman”, Daisy Buchanan, is a bubbly, conflicted woman whose choice is between two men: her husband, Tom Buchanan, and her former lover Jay Gatsby. Since Daisy’s character was written in the 1920s, women’s characters were based on the traditional women of the time period, and many women then were still seen as objects and as less desirable than men. When Daisy is invited to Gatsby’s mansion, her first sight of him in many years upon seeing his expensive clothing, she is so overcome with emotion that she begins to weep “with a strained sound” and begins to “cry stormily” showing her true reaction to something as petty as material objects (92). She continues, claiming that

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby," Daisy Buchanan is one of the primary characters, and throughout the story, she remains a static character. Despite experiencing various events and encounters throughout the book, Daisy's personality, beliefs, and behavior remain unchanged, which ultimately contributes to the book's themes and tragic ending. Daisy's lack of development is evident from the beginning of the book. Her introduction is through Nick Carraway's narration, who describes her as "...a beautiful little fool," suggesting that she is not a complex or intellectually curious person. Her primary motivation seems to be her own pleasure and convenience, as seen in her decision to marry Tom Buchanan, a wealthy and socially prominent man, despite her love for Gatsby.

She acknowledges her feelings but doesn’t stop to think about anyone else's emotions. In addition to her love for Gatsby, she is extremely encouraged to act due to anything related to wealth. When she is in Gatsby’s house, she cries over the shirts, saying “‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before” (92). Daisy was crying because she lost what she could have had, which was a happy marriage with Gatsby and a wealthy lifestyle. She left Gatsby because he couldn’t provide for her, but she had once loved him.

Daisy coming from wealth and marrying rich, she is very impacted by the amount of money one has. When she realizes the man she once loved but had to cut ties with is now rich, it causes her to become emotional. This shows readers how Daisy represents a greedy personality when she only shows emotion towards Gatsby after discovering his wealth. She expressed these feelings by crying over Gatsby's beautiful shirts. Therefore, Daisy's economic status leads her to show extreme greed in her relationships especially when she found out he is now rich after previously leaving him when he was

Even though she despises that her husband cheats on her and wishes she could leave him she knows in her head and heart that she cannot. When Daisy was at Gatsby’s house and saw all of his beautiful shirts, she is described as sobbing. While sobbing she commented on the shirts “ It makes [her] sad because [she have] never seen such-such beautiful shirts before”(92). Daisy realized at this point that no matter what she did, she would never be able to leave her husband. No matter how much she despises him and is unhappy with her life, she cannot leave Tom without societal

Daisy’s character conveys an obsession with materialistic things and money, which ultimately lead to her destruction. When Gatsby had to leave for the war, Daisy chose Tom over him instead of waiting for Gatsby to return. Daisy valued wealth over the true, genuine love that Gatsby had for her. From a very young age, Daisy possessed many materialistic values and she will continue to live a privileged life. Gatsby states, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me” (Fitzgerald, 130).

Her decision to marry Tom rather than Gatsby was purely based on her love for luxury, compared to Gatsby, who was not as prosperous. This sparked her overdramatic sense of lust for money and wealth. In Chapter 6 it mentions "They 're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I 've never seen such—such beautiful shirts before." (Fitzgerald 92).

Gatsby tries impressing Daisy, her reaction is a mixture of awe and melancholy. The display of Gatsby’s newfound wealth reminds her of the opportunities and experiences she missed out on after marrying Tom. The luxurious fabric of the shirts triggers a flood of memories, causing Daisy to question her past life decisions and wonder if she should have followed a different path. It also signifies her realization as if she could have attained wealth and been with Gatsby instead of being in a toxic relationship with Tom. Gatsby’s presence and the feeling of nostalgia he presents to Daisy allows her to awaken herself to a possibility of a different life.

Although, supporting Wershoven's claim, Daisy knows she would've never married Gatsby when he was a poor man and is now stuck in a broken marriage with Tom. This caused her to break down at the sight of the well made shirt that "poor boy" Gatsby now owns; she sobs because of hate of her social status as the "golden

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism, historical context, and imagery to characterize Daisy Buchanan as a stereotypical woman during the 1920s who is driven by her desire to keep her social status and wealth. The only reason Daisy marries Tom is because she wants to keep her social status and wants to be wealthy. “Daisy’s love for her brutal husband can be sublimely dismissed by Gatsby as “merely personal,” so her defects of character and taste cannot affect Gatsby’s attitude toward her” (Bloom 6). Gatsby loves Daisy, but Daisy will not be with him because Gatsby is not wealthy. She gets tired of waiting for him and decides to marry Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man in the same social class as Daisy.