Furthermore, Tom and Daisy show their carelessness through their thoughtless actions. Both Tom and Daisy do not care about their child, only mentioning her for sympathy. When sitting down with Nick, Daisy brings up that she wishes her daughter will be a “beautiful little fool” (22). Daisy dreams that her kid will grow up to be unintelligent and just like Daisy herself, so that her daughter can get by on her looks. Daisy hopes that her daughter will not have to go through any hardships. She does not care about enforcing her daughter to work hard or be independent, but rather to rely on a husband. Daisy not only says this because she believes it, but because she wants a reaction. She expects Nick to be shocked or to chastise her for saying such as thing. Daisy demonstrates her carelessness and thoughtlessness through her negligence of her daughter.
Additionally, Daisy proves that she is careless through her thoughtless disregard of her child. Nick asks Daisy about her child when he visits her for the first time. Daisy tells Nick that she “[supposes her daughter]
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Daisy has doubts about marrying Tom after receiving a letter from Gatsby and realizing that she still has feelings for him. She even declares that “Daisy’s change’ her mind” (74). Daisy did not want to marry Tom, but did due to his wealth and social status. She became overwhelmed by Gatsby’s letter and love, but when it came down to the letter from Gatsby’s and the pearls from Tom, Daisy chooses the more expensive gift and marries Tom. Tom also marries Daisy for his own benefit. He proposes to her on the fact that her family is from old money, are well known and marries her based on her looks. Tom does not truly love her since he is suspected of cheating on their honey moon with “one of the chambermaids” (75). The fact that Tom cheats on Daisy so early in the relationship proves that he never loved
When Nick visits Daisy she tells him the story of how her daughter was born, “It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about––things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling.” By leaving Daisy behind at a time when she most needs him, Tom loses his value of companionship with Daisy. He no longer fits the three criteria that Daisy feels she needs in a man. Daisy knows that Tom no longer loves her and is having an affair with another woman, but despite all of this, Daisy has no intention of leaving him (20). This is because Tom, despite no longer fulfilling her emotionally, is still better for her financially and socially than if she left him to live alone. If Daisy wants to stay in her class, she has no option other than to stay with Tom. When Daisy finally sees Gatsby again, she suddenly has another option besides staying with Tom. Daisy knows that Gatsby has true feelings of love towards her, but leaving Tom would prove to be risky as it could tarnish her reputation and by extension her social stability. Daisy is now struggling between taking a risk for love and maintaining a safe, stable life she is ultimately unhappy
Knowing from their different circumstances, he could not marry her. So Gatsby left to accumulate a lot of money. Daisy, not being able to wait for Gatsby, marries a rich man named Tom. Tom believes that it is okay for a man to be unfaithful but it is not okay for the woman to be. This caused a lot of conflict in their marriage and caused Daisy to be very unhappy.
Daisy does not make it clear that she either loves her husband Tom or Gatsby. This idea is illustrated when Nick, Gatsby, Jordan, Daisy and Tom went to the hotel to have lunch and Gatsby ask Daisy to tell the truth of who she loves. But, “She hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing—and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all. But it was done now It was too late. ‘I never loved him,’ she said, with perceptible reluctance” (Passage 3, Lines 11 - 14). According to the response of Daisy, one can see Daisy telling that she never loved Tom, but with reluctance. Meaning that she didn’t want to tell it with her own willing. Although Gatsby feels very strong and confident with his love, when it comes to the right moment, in front of Tom Daisy does not show that she truly loves him. She could’ve said without any hesitation that she loves Gatsby and doesn’t love Tom but she does not do that. As a result, one can that regardless of how confident Gatsby felt on his love, Daisy does not truly love
Wanting to be with her true love again, she sneaks visits with him without Tom knowing. Just like Myrtle had, Daisy torn into her own marriage. She loved both men, but as soon as it was found out, the men began fighting for her. “I glanced at Daisy who was staring terrified between Gatsby and her husband…” (Fitzgerald 143). This isn’t what Daisy wanted at all. At some point Daisy loved Tom, and it’s very likely that she still does, regardless of all of his cheating. Living a life of riches for so long has affected her with affluenza, blinding her morals as it did to Tom. When someone already has everything they could ever ask for, they’re still going to want more. Something to work for, or else life becomes boring as Daisy points out many times in the novel. When both men she loves are threatening each other and fighting for her fondness she’s realized what she’s done wrong. She’s fallen into the same trap as Myrtle, being stuck between two men, but she still has feelings for Tom.“I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily and say ‘Where’s Tom gone?’” (Fitzgerald 83). Gatsby tries to convince Daisy that she loves him and only him, yet Daisy actually loves them both. After Daisy was married she could think about anything except Tom, while Gatsby has spent the five
When she hears Tom talking on the phone to his mistress, she throws “her napkin on the table” (14) and goes into the house. Since, Daisy throws “her napkin,” this shows how upset Tom’s actions makes her. However, she never confronts Tom about his affair because that might mean giving up the great lifestyle she is living, thus showing her selfish nature. Also, Daisy assumes that Nick did not come to her wedding because “[they] don’t know each other very well,” (16) when it was in fact because Nick was fighting in the war. Daisy is too self-centered to realize that Nick was in the war which is why he could to come to her wedding, implying that her wedding holds more significance. Also, Daisy’s comment to Nick shows her spoiled personality because she does not seem to care about other peoples’ life, only her own life, portraying her to be self-absorbed. Furthermore, when she finds out her newborn is a girl, Daisy “hopes she’ll be a fool” because “that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (17) This shows how Daisy does not really have an emotional attachment with her child; she just wants her to be beautiful so she will attract people with her looks. Evidently, Daisy does not value intelligence in women and she thinks women should be able to get through the world using their looks. Moreover, Daisy treats Pammy as an object; she tells her to say hi to the guests and
Daisy’s actions and words contrast greatly with her husband, Tom, and his grave nature. Her impression on the reader is frivolous with her “charming little laugh'; (13), and her light manner. In addition, Daisy’s tendency to murmur, rumored to make people lean closer to her, also reflects on her coquettish personality. Nick’s ability to read Daisy so well from her facial expressions and body language attests that her mannerisms are very illustrative; “Daisy took her face in her hands…I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions. She also welcomes Nick’s charming but cheesy flattery, when talking about Chicago and she treats him the same way in return by referring to him as a rose and also by saying “I am p-paralyzed with happiness'; (13).
After being exposed to the affair, Nick is later lectured by Tom about a particular book he 's been reading up on, “The idea is if we don’t look out, the white race will – will be utterly submerged!” Albeit this was written and situated in the 1920s, Nick himself does not express an opinion on the subject, while Tom is strident about his misguided contingency. Despite Tom, Nick endures through the dinner and sticks around for information about Daisy 's child. However, Daisy appears to not show much interest for her own daughter, instead expressing believable bitterness towards life and everything, leading here, “Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom 's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn. 'Sophisticated – God I’m sophisticated! '" Nick realizes the insincerity in her act it was once he actually reads into her lines, but isn 't sure of what to comment on. Daisy winds up extending the conversation into the room Tom and Jordan are lingering in, leaving Nick in an uncomfortable position. Fast forward to after Nick makes his realization on Jordan, the two of them are riding along in a car debating Jordan 's driving skills or whether she should be more careful, and she eventually admits, “I hate careless people. That’s why I like you." Although Nick and Jordan are in a relationship, neither of them truly cares for one another, as Nick blatantly dislikes nearly all of Jordan 's traits yet still finds himself gripped to her solely on his fascination for the careless 1920s living style. Jordan most likely couldn 't care less of what Nick thought about her, seemingly dating him for almost no reason whatsoever besides a simple shrug. Presently, nearly all of Nick 's acquaintances are
In this scene, Nick narrates, “The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air” (20). Tom understood that Daisy would not leave his side as long as he had money and consequently, he remained unfaithful and lived carelessly. In the quote, Daisy realizes that Tom is having an affair with someone else, but submits to Tom’s demands anyway. This defines the basis of their relationship and is supported by their actions later in the novel, all caused by the carelessness that brewed within Daisy and Tom due to their overwhelming amounts of wealth. One action that would demonstrate this kind of carelessness would be how Tom and Daisy decide to flee from the city after the incident where Myrtle is run over by Daisy. To emphasize how flawed the couple truly were, Nick states, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...” (187-188). This quote is the embodiment of the characteristics of
Tom functions under the illusion that Daisy not only loves him now, but has always loved him and been completely devoted to him. Daisy does admit that she once loved him, but he was not her first choice; Gatsby was. Tom is also under the illusion that Daisy will never leave him. He has an ongoing, almost public affair with Myrtle but still wants to be devoted to Daisy and demands her devotion to him. Tom feels as if he will never lose anything: his money, Daisy, or his social status.
As you read on, Daisy’s true character is slowly revealed, and you come to achieve that she is a very careless person. She seems to never care about the consequences of her actions, and this is proven when she is driving home from the city, and hits Myrtle with Gatsby’s car. Unlike most other people, she didn’t even hesitate and just drove home, without a care in the world about what she had done. One of Nick Caraway’s final assessments of Daisy after the accident is that she is very careless. He even says; “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made”. (Fitzgerald 187) This quote is proof that people i...
Daisy marries Tom only because he has money. Daisy is in love with material objects. She uses her money to get away from reality, and when she feels threatened, she hides behind her money. Furthermore, she says, "And I hope she'll be a fool-That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. "(Pg.
Daisy is describe as childish, because like a child playing pretend, she pretends to be someone she is not, she cannot make up her mind, and does not think about how her action will affect everyone else. For example, Nick said, “The instance her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what
Daisy’s main goal is to maintain her social status. She comes from a high status; her voice is even described as “sounding like money” (120). Near the end of the novel, she doesn’t leave Tom for Gatsby even though she truly loved Gatsby. She stays with Tom knowing he has a higher status and more security than Gatsby. Nick describes Tom and Daisy interactions as not happy, but almost satisfied in a way. Nick says, “They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched their chicken or ale- and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together” (145). This quote shows how Daisy wasn’t with Tom because it made her happy, she was with Tom because he didn’t make her unhappy. Daisy uses Tom to provide a secure status and life for
Nick is astonished at this information. He finds it hard to believe that Tom, with a beautiful wife and child, would be having an affair with some woman in the city. Miss Baker thinks “everybody knew” about the affair, yet Daisy is still with Tom. Being too ignorant to make herself believe it’s true, Daisy is willing to stay in the marriage, even when she is presented with an opportunity from Gatsby to escape. Daisy is willing to stay with Tom just because he has “old money,” and that shows how important it is to her. Everyone else’s morals are just as bad as Tom’s because they know about what’s going on and know that it’s wrong, but they don’t say anything about it. Later in the story, when Wilson is looking for the driver of the yellow car that killed Myrtle, he also suspects that person of having an affair with...
Nick goes to visit Tom and Daisy for dinner one night, along with Jordan Baker. While at dinner Tom gets up to answer a phone call, which happens to be from his mistress, Myrtle. Suddenly the mood gets tense while Daisy is aware of why he eluded the dinner table, “Then suddenly she threw her napkin on the table and excused herself and went into the house”(Fitzgerald 14). Tom has this wonderful wife and daughter and has the decency to answer the phone from his mistress, while they have guests over. This action taken by Tom greatly affects Daisy. His carelessness to be polite causes Daisy to feel forlorn, she gets up to go stop Tom. Tom is aware that Daisy knows he has a mistress, yet doesn’t care enough to do anything about it. Not only does Tom affect Daisy, he also continues to lead on Myrtle. As Nick and Tom go to New York for a day, they pick up Myrtle and have a party in their apartment. The conversations were tense and mainly about marriage. Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, mentions how neither Myrtle nor Tom can stand the person they are married to, but explains why they aren't just divorced and married to each other, “It's really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s catholic, and they don't believe in divorce”(fitzgerald 32). Nick does