Character Analysis

The golden girl refers to a very successful woman who is much admired, her beauty truly reinforces her status and reputation of wealth. The “golden girl” is known to be magnetic and has the power to allure men to be around her. Everyone either wants to be or to be with the golden girl. the golden girl is placed on a  pedestal,  honoured above others and believed to have no faults ,  the person on the pedestal has a tendency to feel pressured to act in a certain way without fail.

Explain how Daisy could be considered clever. Use at least one quote from the text to support your answer.

As we look beneath her stereotypical character it reveals that her ‘foolishness and her shallowness is an act and something she has developed in order to survive, Daisy isn’t oblivious to the world she lives in. Daisy is smarter, more opportunistic and socially aware than she is made out to be. Daisy is aware of the old money world she belongs in. She is aware that the most ‘successful’ ladies in the broadest sense of the word, in her world are ones that remain superficially foolish, objectified and trophy-like. She plays with Gatsby, but knows when to go home back into the protection of her old money inheritor Tom Buchanan.

The notes above talk about how Gatsby views Daisy as a possession to be collected. Explain this further. Find a quote from the text to support your answer and explain how the quote supports your ideas.

During the hotel scene Daisy is talked about between Gatsby and Tom, while she is present. She is talked about as though she’s an object rather than a person to the men around her. Gatsby has become so fixated on Daisy, she has become an object or possession to him. Gatsby inst in love with daisy he’s in love with the ideas of her, her wealth she represents is actually what gatsby has craved since he was young. Gatsby’s s consumed in the wealth, his ‘love’ for daisy is an illusion for involvement he now has with the higher class

Towards the end of the novel, Nick says that Daisy and Tom were “careless people…they smashed up things and creatures, and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”. Explain what Daisy ‘smashes up’ (figuratively speaking) in this story.

Daisys  is a destructive and careless character, she has destroyed many of the characters emotionally and physically. When Nick mentions Daisy was a careless person who smashed up things and retreated back into her money he’s referring to how Daisy damaged almost everyone she’s been associated with but does not face consequences due to her high status. 

Nick is narrating this novel in a mental institute which just shows how daisy actions over the summer impacted on Nick’s mental wellbeing. Gatsbys was also damaged by Daisy, he was in love with her as she led him on, breaking his heart. Dasiy selfsih ways resulted in both the wilsons death, dasys action costed the life of mrytle wilson, causing george mrylte to commit suicide. Daisy has no empathy or regard for the people she has hurt and struggles with apologies  for her actions.

Explain how Daisy could be considered ‘amoral’. Use at least two quotes from the text to support your answer.

Daisy’s an amoral character, meaning she has no morals or ideas of right and wrong in her life and actions. She is guilty of an affair with Gatsby and leads him on, she kills Mrytle Wilson triggering the suicide of George Wilson, Gatsby receives full blame for Daisy actions. Daisy claimed to have loved Gatsby once but had no intention of  attending his funeral, showing she truly didn’t care about him.“They are beautiful shirts. I have never seen such beautiful shirts before” Daisy is very materialistic. She cares more for the shirts and the wealth they represent rather than gatsby himself. If she cared about Gatsby at all she wouldn’t be talking about shirts.