She is often considered callous, spoilt and heartless for her pursuit of wealth and her abandonment of Jay Gatsby. However, perhaps this is an unfair judgement, and she is simply a victim of her situation and the materialistic world she lives in.
In the Great Gatsby Tom is an unlikeable character. How does Fitzgerald use language to portray him like this? Fitzgerald uses both language, Tom's various interactions with people and the attitudes he demonstrates through his statements to show his dislikeable character.
Daisy grew up spoiled due to the vast wealth she obtained from being 'old money', which caused her to become selfish and self-centred. Daisy had become selfish to the point that she has an expensive and materialistic desire or want.
She's shallow, selfish, and fickle. She doesn't let Tom's affairs destroy her, but she pretends as if they aren't happening or that they don't matter. She treats her child like a fashion accessory, dressing her up to show her off, and then sending her away with a servant. She is overly concerned with society's opinion.
Fitzgerald's Character Daisy acts are both selfish and full of greed. First she is not happy with her husband, Tom, and greedily want another man's love. This man's name is Gatsby. She already had the chance of loving Gatsby but chose the rich life with tom instead.
Daisy's major flaw is weakness. She lets others control her life as long as they entertain her with material goods. She is also very shallow and dependent on others. “I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
Daisy was able to manipulate Gatsby to believe that he is the only person that she likes. He made a crucial mistake and did not understand that she only loves money. Moreover, Jay thought that marriage is not a problem, and only feelings are important.
Daisy "Fay" Buchanan is the villainous tritagonist in The Great Gatsby. She symbolizes the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg and was partially inspired by Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald.
How does Daisy show carelessness? Daisy shows carelessness because of her wealth and privilege. She is careless with her marriage, nearly throwing it all away to be with Gatsby. She is also careless with other people's lives when she runs over Myrtle and does not even stop.
Daisy Buchannan is made to represent the lack of virtue and morality that was present during the 1920s. She is the absolute center of Gatsby's world right up to his death, but she is shown to be uncaring and fickle throughout the novel.
She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Nick characterizes her as a careless person who smashes things up and then retreats behind her money.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Daisy makes several attempts to retrieve attention. Even at Gatsby's parties, she seems to single herself out and make it all about her.
How is Daisy greedy in The Great Gatsby? In The Great Gatsby, Daisy wants everything. She ultimately wants the love of both Tom and Gatsby. Daisy wants to keep her privileged, albeit problematic life, while being able to escape from it into Gatsby's arms.
Tom Buchanan—hulking, hyper-masculine, aggressive, and super-rich—is The Great Gatsby's chief representative of old money, and (in a book with many unlikeable people) one of the book's least sympathetic characters.
Jay Gatsby likely knew this, because while he was always surrounded by people, you get the sense that his existence was a lonely one. He doesn't seem to enjoy his parties, preferring to hide along the edges rather than stay roam the center. He lives alone in a huge mansion.
One of the most despicable characters in the novel is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy seems to only do things that are convenient for herself. She is a very manipulative character, which she tries to hide by playing the innocent girl. The only character who sees right through that is her cousin, Nick Carraway.
Although Daisy may have loved Gatsby once, she does not love him more than the wealth, status, and freedom that she has with Tom.
The final betrayal presented is Daisy's betrayal of Gatsby. Daisy always knew how Gatsby felt about her but, never took an interest in him. Her feelings for him began to change when she saw his immense wealth. Daisy is a very materialistic person and all of Gatsby's fancy things drew Daisy to him.
The author writes of Daisy, “She had told him she loved him and Tom Buchannan saw” (Fitzgerald, page 119). Daisy flirts with Gatsby in front of her husband making Gatsby think she is now in love with him and is ready to tell Tom. Daisy uses Gatsby to make Tom jealous.
Yet Daisy isn't just a shallow gold digger. She's more tragic: a loving woman who has been corrupted by greed. She chooses the comfort and security of money over real love, but she does so knowingly.
Here we finally get a glimpse at Daisy's real feelings—she loved Gatsby, but also Tom, and to her those were equal loves.
Gatsby's Death and Funeral
In both book and movie, Gatsby is waiting for a phone call from Daisy, but in the film, Nick calls, and Gatsby gets out of the pool when he hears the phone ring. He's then shot, and he dies believing that Daisy was going to ditch Tom and go way with him. None of that happens in the book.
Daisy accepts her objectification and abandonment it causes, and doesn't wish a better life for her child. Gatsby feeds into this objectification, seeing Daisy as a thing to be acquired so his life will be complete.
While Tom most clearly stands in the way of Gatsby's love for Daisy, Daisy herself functions as an antagonist as well. Years prior to the events of the novel, when Gatsby left to join the war effort, Daisy decided to give up on her love for Gatsby and run with a fast and rich crowd.
Nick best described Daisy's selfishness when he said, “ They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money… and let other people clean up their mess.” (Fitzgerald…show more content…