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The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Selfish Quotes

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In the age of the 'Roaring '20s', corrupt minds plagued the society of New York's elite and wealthy. In Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Daisy Buchanan serves as a prime example of living the bourgeois lifestyle that ignored moral values. By blindly treading back and forth over the boundary separating morally wrong and innocently justified, Daisy's actions can be depicted as a person of an indecisive mind. By loving two men, and committing a murder, she exhibits the prime traits of a criminal- but by attempting to escape her blatantly sinister husband, Daisy innocently reaches for the lustful romance she yearns. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Daisy Buchanan as morally ambiguous through her speech, actions, and relationships with others.
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‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly...It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it…. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl….”(Fitzgerald 127). Daisy only cares about what other people can do for her. She wants everything to come to her quickly. When Gatsby leaves for the war, she seems to forget about him and when Tom comes around, she just marries him. She could have just waited patiently for Gatsby to come back and show her loyalty to him, but she changes, like the seasons change. Her voice also has a seductive charm to it as well: “Daisy's voice was playing murmurous tricks in her throat. "These things excite me so," she whispered. "If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you...I'm giving out green−.”(110) She acts like a completely different person then when she talks in front of Tom. This shows her rebellious streak against Tom as he is already cheating on her. Tom is a domineering spouse who wants complete control of the women in his life.This, however, doesn’t justify her cheating on him. Daisy

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