Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

How does one achieve happiness? Some say money, others say love but most want a balance in between the two.Just like Daisy Buchanan, who has it all, she is affluent and adored.

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, the story follows a group of socialite and their interaction with the trials and tribulations of life.Daisy Buchanan uses her appearance and charm to manipulate wealthy men into loving her.

Daisy actually does not have an idea of what love is. She has an unhealthy relationship with her husband which makes look for affection in other means.She tries to flirt with her cousin,in every conversation, she always finds a way to tease him“-----Quote about the rose---” “Quote about the are you in love with Me “. She continues

to flirt with Nick to make Tom jealous.

Tom has been conducting extramarital affairs since the beginning of their marriage, but she has not left him yet. She has not divorced him because she is in love with his wealth and his status, though she was rather wealthy herself, she was never on the high social pedestal as she was and that she has it she is not about to relinquish it to one of Tom's mistress.Tom could have very well married one of his mistresses, and Daisy being afraid of that she wants to make Tom interested in her again so there is no chance of that happening.

Additionally, Daisy and Tom’s relationship is filled with everything except love. Daisy and Tom met after Gatsby had left war, It actually states that Daisy was not happy when Gatsby left until Tom arrived in her life. “By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever… In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars

and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” The fact that she was so happy to have met Tom after being heartbroken that her lover has gone off to war is not the problem , the problem is the way that Fitzgerald has described Tom. He is only characterized here by his money, how much he can afford on a larger than life wedding, how much money he can put down on a pearl necklace. It is as if that is the only thing tHat is important about him and the only thing that Daisy cared about at the time. Daisy has grown very unhappy and pessimistic, for example, “It'll show you how I've gotten to feel about – things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling,” This is supposed to be the happiest day in her and Tom's life. But she is feeling abandoned by her husband who is not where he is supposed to be, by his wife’s side. But that was all forgiven because right after that quote is ” Quotes about being in a special society” She is reassuring herself that all the heartbreak and her unhappy marriage is worth it because at least she is wealthy. She is unhappy with Tom but she would not dream of leaving him and his social status.
Equally as important as her lack of knowledge of love are her unequivocal good looks, that keeps the men coming. Daisy is characterized as a young and beautiful woman who was always dating around. In fact “----Quote about her being popular with men” Daisy dated around and did not want to settle down because she had not found the one yet,and Daisy being of elevated taste she would not find him anywhere in the army. Also “------Quote about dating around again after she met Gatsby” It seemed that meeting Gatsby was the turning point for her and that this was the great cosmic love for the both of hem. But that relationship was problematic from the start.One is that she based her love for him on his false pretenses. Gatsby lied to Daisy trying to convey that he was cut from the same cloth as him when that could not have been further than the truth. After Gatsby leaves, she tries to hold out for him but she is back on her dates until she meets Toms.
Furthermore, the Daisy and Gatsby dynamic was based on money and not love.

Both characters at play have an unwavering loyalty to the American dollar and dream. Daisy has always wanted a family and a nice life. But Gatsby felt he could give that to her unless, he had the biggest house, unless he threw the most ambiguous parties, unless he had the finest clothes made from the finest materials unless he had all these materialistic objects just to attract her. “‘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.’” This speaks a multitude about Daisy’s character because, she is too concerned about the materialistic aspect of life, the nice shirts, the nice house etc.Also the fact that their “love” could not be

enough.
Lastly, Daisy’s money allows her to be irresponsible. Daisy floats through life without ever really thinking or caring about the repercussions of her actions. She runs away at signs of conflicts and buys her chance to start again anew. “ Quote about nick calling them careless” This was in the wake of Myrtles and Tom's death, which Daisy had an indirect and direct hand in. Daisy fled with Tom and refused to assume the responsibility for her actions. When Tom's affairs got out of hand They moved city to city. She hides behind the power of her money and her charming personality. “ quote about Gatsby taking the blame” She let Gatsby pay the price of her indecisiveness with his life and didn't even bother to pay her respect at his funeral.
In conclusion. Daisy is an object of her societal pressure. The pressure to have a family and to marry up the social ladder. But she uses her good looks to get ahead in life and tho move up the social ladder. This societal pressure is still around these days, but less and fewer women are conforming to these gender roles. Daisy would have fit better in this generation of liberation from oppressive domestic views of women in the United States.