How Is Daisy Portrayed In The Great Gatsby

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The Cambridge Dictionary defines immoral as “outside society’s standards of acceptable, honest, and good behavior.” Not only do actions reveal immorality, but personality highlights immoral behavior. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby explores the lasting effects of immoral behavior. In the novel's beginning, Fitzgerald’s depiction of a naive and charming Daisy reveals dissonance between her actions and personality. Daisy’s actions throughout the novel display her immorality and leave a lasting impact on the people she wounds. Daisy’s materialism and carelessness reveal her immorality. In the novel's beginning, the first portrayal of Daisy depicts her as a “completely stationary object.[on] an enormous couch.buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. [she …show more content…

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” (Fitzgerald 59). Despite her love for Gatsby, Daisy picks Tom as her husband because of his wealth and social status. Fitting for Daisy and her immorality, as soon as Gatsby returns to the picture, now with capital, she engages in an affair with him. Daisy outwardly reveals her affair with all the main characters, even Tom: “She told [Gatsby] that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw” (Fitzgerald 119). Daisy latches on to Gatsby and displays no remorse despite her husband's presence. In the same scene, Daisy’s child appears: “[Gatsby] kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before” (Fitzgerald 117). Gatsby displays his amazement at the child’s existence because he has never seen her. Along with an open affair, Daisy has a child she has never cared for, and she prefers parties and her social life over caring for the child.

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