In one of the greatest works of the Twentieth Century, F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner-Simon, 1992), there are many dynamic and round characters which greatly add to the story's theme. One character, Daisy Buchanan, is made essential by way of her relation to the theme. An integral part of the plot, Daisy conveys the meaning of the novel, with her multi dimensional personality and her relation to the conflicts. Daisy Buchanan is a round and dynamic character, with many different sides to her personality. .
In the early chapters, she is portrayed as sweet and innocent woman who did no wrong. Her white and seemingly floating dress seems perfect in every way. She grew up as the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. Even then she dressed in white. Daisy also keeps her daughter around as a show toy. I get the feeling that she doesn't really care about her daughter which was backed up when she says, "I"m glad it's a girl. And I hope she"ll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"(21). Whenever company comes over, she beckons for the little girl to come and put on an act for everyone. This is symbolic of Daisy's life; she is kept in the closet until it is time to show off for company, then .
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she becomes radiant and personable. When everyone has gone, she is a bored housewife, of no importance to the world and wondering aloud what she is going to do with the rest of her life. She appears to be bored yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocence is false. .
Daisy frequently reminds us that love is exactly what you make of it, though I feel that she has made a mockery of the love in her own life. She, in my eyes, is the ideal of what is completely wrong with modern society's idea of love, that it can be bought and sold at will of the buyer and seller. Even Daisy is offered unconditional love and she doesn't know how to react to it.
