How Does Daisy Buchanan Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character of Daisy Buchanan undergoes many noticeable changes. Daisy is a symbol of wealth and of promises broken. She is a character we grow to feel sorry for but probably should not.

One of the main characters in the Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan was a charming woman who was visually pleasing to men. She was married to Tom, a rich and powerful man, for his money. Tom and Gatsby are at Tom's house, when they both express a certain feeling that her voice brings upon them.

Symbols are very important in story-telling. They show who characters really are and add more depth to them as well. This is especially true in the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the novel, many symbols represent Daisy Buchanan, a complex character. The color white, Daisy's voice, and old money are all symbols that illustrate Daisy's character.

Throughout the novel Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, there is a seemingly innocent main character named Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to a man named Tom, who she’s consequentially married to for his wealth. Throughout their marriage, Daisy is known to Tom having affairs, and is only in their marriage for the wealth. To add to Daisy’s obsession to wealth, a wealthy man named Gatsby is fighting for Daisy’s love. Gatsby lives across the sound from Daisy, and has always tried to impress Daisy with his fortune.

“I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back, and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say: “Where’s Tom gone?” and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour, rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight. It was touching to see them together — it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way. That was in August. A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken

Daisy finds out that Gatsby achieves his wealth by bootlegging and questionable activities which scares her. Daisy chooses Tom to have a normal, pampered life, she is afraid that she could get hurt if she got intertwined in Gatsby’s business. In this passage: “Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table...He was talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement. They weren't happy...and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said they were conspiring together.” it is believe that Tom and Daisy are talking about their plans for what comes next and moving out west, as they then leave shortly after. This shows that Daisy would rather have a comfortable, safe marriage, rather than be with someone she loved and constantly have the fear of being at

The first example in which Fitzgerald uses flowers to symbolize his idea of the 1920s is Daisy Buchanan. The daisy is a flower that represents beauty and purity, and yet it has some dark traits, like the fact that it can potentially be an invasive species. The same is true for Daisy Buchanan. She is beautiful and very popular, loved by many men, seemingly pure and innocent. At her roots however, Daisy Buchanan, whose voice is “full of money” (120), is corrupt and has a love for money and wealth.

The color green is also used to represent the American Dream, the ideal way for Americans to live that promises prosperity and a place among those in the upper class, living the upper class lifestyle, but a lifestyle that is often thought of as unreachable due to the status, money, and often race that one must have in order to achieve it. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald often uses Nick’s judgmental voice to scrutinize the characters who appear throughout the novel. In particular, a person of interest to Nick was Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Nick was sure to note that she is not very wealthy although she acts as though she is well above her actual societal level. In essence, Myrtle acts as though she had married properly and achieved the American Dream, what seems to be her goal in life, when in actuality, she has not done anything like this. Myrtle married poor and continues to live a fake life, having an affair with Tom, Daisy’s husband, to pretend as though she is above where she actually is in society. After Daisy accidentally hits and kills Myrtle by running her over with a car and Myrtle’s husband speaks with the police, Nick remarks that “The “death car” as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop… he [Wilson] told the first policeman that it [the car] was light green.” By writing that it was not only Daisy that killed Myrtle, but Daisy in a green car, Fitzgerald invokes a sense of irony to exemplify the concept of green symbolizing an unattainable American Dream. He does this

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism is as important as the plot itself. Every character’s intentions and true personality goes hand-in-hand with the overall outcome of the story. Within this wordless essay, Daisy is shown as the character of focus. Surrounding her is a sea of green, and adjacent to her is a speech bubble filled with materialistic, yellow items. The collection of yellow, appearing to come directly out of Daisy’s mouth, symbolizes the voice full of money that Gatsby comments about to Nick within the aforementioned quote.

Daisy finds the security she desires with Tom Buchanan. Since Daisy feels vulnerable as a single woman with an unsure future, she pursues a different relationship with a man who has social and financial stability: “Daisy’s pursuit of happiness in the form of her dangerous, defiant love for Gatsby surrenders to the palpability of a safe, material, unequal propertied union with Tom Buchanan” (John Callahan). As discussed in the previous paragraph, Daisy understands that love is not the most important aspect of a relationship; instead, as illustrated

During dinner at the Buchanan’s home, Nick brings up Gatsby, and Daisy’s eyes light up and she requires “‘Gatsby?’ demanded Daisy. ‘What Gatsby?’“(Fitzgerald 11). After dinner, Daisy begins to question if her romance with Gatsby is still a possibility; she sees Gatsby as a possible escape from Tom. Gatsby gives her hope for a better future and she remembers what it means to be happy

Daisy Buchanan has a similar lifestyle to Tom, she’s wealthy ‘voice is full of money’ and always wore ‘white’ symbolising her purity and wealth. However as a woman of a higher class, there not much she can do in her ‘shallow life’, as she has the money but doesn’t know how to plan events ‘what do people plan?’. This shows that she is not content with her knowledge and understanding of life therefore even with money she isn’t ‘happy’. This leads her to ‘have an affair’ with an ex-lover whom she so adored before she married Tom ‘I did love him once – But I loved you too’. In the novel, Daisy only every seeks true love when she’s with Gatsby but ‘a rich girls don’t marry poor boys’, so due to this social difference between them, she knows the only place she will ever have security is with Tom. Tom describes their affair as a ‘presumptuous little flirtation’ because to Daisy, she knew she was never going to marry Gatsby but to Gatsby it was just never

This lovely rich girl is known Daisy Buchanan, a women married to Tom Buchanan and also the love of Jay Gatsby’s life. The two met five years prior to her marriage, but were separated when Jay was forced to go off to war. The root of his desire for wealth occurs back to when Daisy’s parents did not approve of Gatsby for their daughter due to the fact that he came from a poor family. Jay is once again blinded, this time by the beauty and grace of Daisy and fails to see that Daisy is not who she appears to once be. He craves her for the realization of his golden family in his perfect dream, but really Daisy is far from that.

Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby’s relationship was damaged by their contrasting social classes, but also because he had a lack of status and wealth. In relation to this Daisy married Tom for his wealth and status not for his love, which suggests Daisy is a materialistic character is more concerned about her money and possessions than she is about intellectual and spiritual objects. “Gatsby is an idealist, he seeks for

Daisy is a vain lady. She marries Tom for money and status, and turns her back on true love and happiness, which is represented by Gatsby. Her American Dream is to enjoy a luxurious and comfortable life given to her by, hopefully a man who truly loves her, and whom she also loves. The corruption of her human values begins when she decides not to wait anymore for Gatsby, her real love, but to take the opportunity that Tom Buchanan offers, which are money and status. Her choices reveal her vain and superficial nature hidden beneath her beautiful and innocent look. When Gatsby returns with wealth and status in order