The Plight of Daisy in The Great Gatsby
The Plight of Daisy in The Great Gatsby
It seems that all that we know about Daisy Buchanan comes through Nick. Most readers see her as superficial, shallow and foolish but this outward appearance is Daisy's attempt to conceal how she really feels. Nick tells the reader that Daisy purposely tries to avoid her true feelings because she knows about the severe pain that goes along with facing them.
Daisy has several conflicts that she …
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…soon after they married and she was pregnant when she found out about it. After a long history and broken hearts and the realization that love leads to emotional distress, Daisy's spirits seemed to be lifted after the meeting with Gatsby. This meeting seemed to bring her back from the world of the emotionally dead" (163).
Fryer Sarah. Critical Essays of F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. ED. Scott Donaldson. Boston:G.K. Hall & Co.,1984.
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