Examples Of Daisy Selfish In The Great Gatsby
The aim of this essay is to talk about the topic of Tom and Daisy as selfish characters in
F.S.Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
First of all, Tom and Daisy are the two main important characters in the novel, among many others, so they constitute an important piece of the story. They belong to an upper-class society.
They live in East Egg, the most fashionable village in Long Island. Tom comes from a wealthy
Midwestern family. He is a powerful and a menacing man who intimidate not only to his wife in the way he behaves, but also to his lover, Myrtle Wilson because he has a strong personality. And Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville (Kentucky). She is Nick 's cousin. She chose to marry
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The character of Daisy portrayed in the book by Fitzgerald is an insubstantial and a boring person, a careless woman who uses her weak nature as an excuse for her immaturity. Daisy 's behaviour of a “fool girl” is what mades her to seem as an innocent woman that apparently does not know anything but it does not seem to be so because later in the novel she has a relationship with both Tom and Gatsby at the same time and that made her to be very conscious of what she actually was doing. She uses Gatsby as somewhat of a revenge against Tom and his affair with another
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woman, although she demonstrated at the end that she did not want to leave her position and take a risk with Gatsby because she had all she needed with her current husband.
On the other hand, in the case of Tom, he is also unfaithful to his wife and he also tries to have the two relationships at the same time but he is a bit hypocrit because when he accuses his wife of infidelity, he hides his own one with Myrtle and he does not hesitate to carry on with
F.S.Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
First of all, Tom and Daisy are the two main important characters in the novel, among many others, so they constitute an important piece of the story. They belong to an upper-class society.
They live in East Egg, the most fashionable village in Long Island. Tom comes from a wealthy
Midwestern family. He is a powerful and a menacing man who intimidate not only to his wife in the way he behaves, but also to his lover, Myrtle Wilson because he has a strong personality. And Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville (Kentucky). She is Nick 's cousin. She chose to marry
Tom Buchanan, a man who belonged to a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy …show more content…
The character of Daisy portrayed in the book by Fitzgerald is an insubstantial and a boring person, a careless woman who uses her weak nature as an excuse for her immaturity. Daisy 's behaviour of a “fool girl” is what mades her to seem as an innocent woman that apparently does not know anything but it does not seem to be so because later in the novel she has a relationship with both Tom and Gatsby at the same time and that made her to be very conscious of what she actually was doing. She uses Gatsby as somewhat of a revenge against Tom and his affair with another
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woman, although she demonstrated at the end that she did not want to leave her position and take a risk with Gatsby because she had all she needed with her current husband.
On the other hand, in the case of Tom, he is also unfaithful to his wife and he also tries to have the two relationships at the same time but he is a bit hypocrit because when he accuses his wife of infidelity, he hides his own one with Myrtle and he does not hesitate to carry on with