Daisy, the good in the life of James, was conquered by the evil, which was personified as Tom, Myrtle, and George throughout the novel in every battle. She was beat by the power and money that Tom held pulling her away from her true love before the novel even began. She was the promise of life that kept James moving and striving for the better things, kept him living his days after the great sadness that had cut him so deep. This good, this beauty, is what keeps everyone living. If shut away from the beauty of the outdoors, kept in the dark, a man will go insane, planning everyday to find a way to connect again with the sun, the light. Tom kept James trapped in his own prison, he kept him from having the good that was part of James from the beginning. James had to have Daisy and this feeling of need is what finally defeated both James and Daisy. The good tried desperately to break away from the evil that held her with an iron fist. The money, the power and the man proved too much for her however and leave Gatsby with out any thing she did.
Daisy was drawn from that man in the middle by one of the three evils, which were coincidently tied in a violent love triangle. The fling with Myrtle was not the first for Tom and would not likely be the last. Daisy turned a blind eye to the affair with the lesser women, she believed her husband would come back to her but her good faith was misplaced. Her good turned to be the advantage of the evil. Tom aimed to bring down the successful Gatsby by revealing his misdeeds to the world and especially Daisy. The evil who was Tom had waited to take down the desire of his wife, he wished to ruin the image that James Gatz had labored so hard to create, and this he did. Myrtle embodied the evil of desire and lust. She tore at the relationship between Daisy and Tom, torturing Jay with her incessant rants and her infidelity. Jay saw the small George Wilson and felt sympathy for him, he was an innocent in it all, but he ended up suffering the most.