Daisy was born in Louisville, Kentucky as Daisy Fay". I suppose Fay" alludes to fairy", because her childhood was like a fairy tale: she grew up like a princess, having everything, being rich, being beautiful, bein the most popular girl in town. All men dreamed of her. She has always pretended to be innocent, but in reality she's attracted by money so much that you could call her, well, corrupt". She promises more than she gives, for example with her singing voice with is charming men. She live in her own artificial world of the rich and the famous, ignoring reality and the troubles of life. But sometimes it breaks out in one of her crisis and she doesn't know how to help herself and expects the others to take care of her. .
Überleitung: As I said, every man was crazy for Daisy, and so was and still is Gatsby.
His only motivation for everything he does is his dream of Daisy. .
Chapter four is so important because we get to know the main conflict, the plot of the book. .
Until now, we just had a series of events and characters without any relation, but now we see how they are connected by the past relation of Daisy and Gatsby. It explains many things we wondered about before. Not everything, but many things become clear knowing this relation and Gatsby's will to win back Daisy. For example, we couldn't understand why Gatsby's organizing all these parties. Now we know that it's to attract Daisy. So it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night."œ But Daisy. .
In this chapter the action really starts. And for the first time we really get caught by the story, we want to know how this will go on and how this is going to end. You wonder: What will happen to Daisy and Gatsby? .
The atmosphere is kind of tense, because Gatsby's nervous and uneasy because he wants Nick to do him an important favour, and Nick's distrusting the things Gatsby tells him about his life (as he obviously lies saying that he grew up in San Francisco in the Mid-West.
