Daisy

Many people may see Daisy Buchanan as an innocent young girl who is very kind, but I don’t. I believe Daisy was a very shallow character throughout the novel who did not have her priorities straight. She was once in love with Gatsby at an early age, yet when she found out that he wasn’t rich, she no longer wanted to marry him. She instead went off and married a rich man, Tom, while Gatsby was away at war. Daisy is so in love with money and rich materials that she cries when Gatsby is showing her all of his shirts. Honestly it is bad if you are crying just because a man has some nice shirts. She then toys with Gatsby when they meet and she makes him believe that she truly loves him and that they may one day get married. At this point she is lying to both her husband and Gatsby and is a very unfaithful woman, although said to be quite attractive. To me, Daisy seems to be the one character that had the biggest impact on the lives around her and could have made them better. Instead, she is dishonest throughout the novel and ruins Gatsby’s life and then when he dies, she does not even come to his funeral which portrays her as being even more shallow.