How Does Daisy Buchanan Change Throughout The Novel

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The Great Gatsby is a well known, classic book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is set in the 1920s, the jazz age, which is the time period where social and economic changes occured and allowed people to go away from old traditions and embrace new ideas (Alchin, Linda). The book is narrated by a man, Nick Carraway, who is seeking the american dream. He moves in next door to a millionaire, Jay Gatsby, who has a love affair with an already married women, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan a beautiful woman that is married to a man named Tom, but has a love affair with a guy she previously loved, and has to decide who she actually loves. Throughout the book, Daisy Buchanan is portrayed as beautiful and charming girl who is worried about her social …show more content…

In the beginning of the book she seems like a nice lady who loves her husband, but when a previous love interest is brought back into her life, her mannerism changes and her true self is brought out. At the end of the book, she is selfish, and a coward. She does not care about the man she once loved at all. She never told Gatsby that she was choosing Tom over him and she got her things around and moved away with Tom. In the movie she is portrayed as a nice woman that just gets caught up in a love affair. Towards the end of the movie, she is seen to be worried and possibly still concerned about Gatsby. In the movie, she is given the opportunity to learn at what happened to Gatsby, but Tom does not allow them to receive anymore phone calls. Daisy is a well liked woman at the beginning of both the movie and the book, but towards the end she was disliked because of the way she left things with …show more content…

She progresses by going from a nice, charming lady to a selfish one. This also changes the way that people look at her too. She goes from being loveable and people feeling bad for her to disapproving her and in the end not liking her. When she meets Gatsby, she is hopeful again and falls back in love all over again. When she meets Gatsby again she is overjoyed and happy. The Gatsby becomes adamant about Daisy telling Tom she never loved him. Then Tom eventually finds out about their affair and makes sure she does not leave him. This is where Daisy starts to go down him. She tells Gatsby she loves him, but tells him that she also loves Tom, and can not choose between the

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