The Not-So-Great Daisy

            
             Daisy Fay Buchanan is an attractive, wealthy, and shallow young lady. She always dresses in flimsy white dresses, a symbol of her lack of character. She is the perfect example of the rich being exceedingly shallow and the lack of honor and caring for others and deeper things in life. She is an object that must be won by Gatsby, and is truly not worthy of his admiration. Although her two men want her and fight over her, Daisy is a shallow character that the novel revolves around more than Gatsby.
             Tom and Gatsby both want Daisy and fight over her. Daisy was in love with Gatsby before, but when Gatsby was sent to fight in the war, she waited for him to return for a short while. Soon bored and impatient, she began to date other men of her same social class and married Tom. The men are fighting for Daisy's love but rather for ownership of Daisy. They are both men rich men and although Gatsby is kind at heart, they both believe their money can buy them anything. When Gatsby can't buy Daisy it crushes him, she is a piece of property that must be bought, and who can ever win her is the better man in their mind.
             Daisy is an exceedingly shallow person and is not worthy of Gatsby's admiration, and only really likes his money anyways. "For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras -(158) Gatsby comments, her voice is full of money, which it is, and although Gatsby finds this attractive, most people would not. Daisy flips out over Gatsby's shirts, reveling in the money. Daisy is very much a debauchee, and money dominates her life.
             Daisy as a person and an item of property is the cause of almost everything that happens in the story. Daisy's love is fought for as a trophy and causes the conflict between Tom and Gatsby. "Just tell him the truth "that you never loved him "and it's wiped out forever.- (137). Gatsby asks Daisy to say she never loved Tom, so he can feel he won.