How Is Daisy Ideal In The Great Gatsby

A thorough analysis of The Greats Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzegerald, demonstrate that not every woman was to be molded by the current era. Daisy is displayed as an ideal woman from a quick glance, however she is far from the current standard and she contains flaws that do not come from the mold a woman is expected to be shaped from in the current era.

It becomes obvious in a statement from Gatsby that Daisy priorities wealth over love. “’She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.” (pg.137) For Gatsby, Daisy is a perfect woman whom he has strived after for years and shaped his life around getting her back. It is due to the fact that Gatsby holds Daisy as ideal that

“If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say: ‘Where’s Tom gone?’ and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour, rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight.” (pg.83) The way Daisy is described waiting on Tom can be compared to that of a dog waiting on his owner. A dog often sits and whimper looking sad, while waiting for his owner to return and is lost without him. A dog is dependent on his owner taking care of him and commanding the dog on what to do and by making the waiting and delight when being with him similar. By portraying Daisy as extremely dependent it shows that she is not a woman that is completely alienated from the norm of the current era of women, instead it shows that while she displays different thoughts from the current norm. She is still a woman who loves and depends on her husband, making it easier for the targeted audience to relate and connect to the

“All right,” I said, “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.” (pg.24) Here the newborn is used as a symbol to display that she considers herself first. A mother and child have always been regarded as having a special bond and a mother is supposed to place her child above all there is in the world. Daisy is aware that Tom is cheating and when she says that she hopes the child will grow up to be a fool she is engrossed with herself and thinks that if she herself would have grown up to be a fool, she could have lived in unknowingness of Tom cheating and lived a wonderful life. By reading this, the reader understands that not every wife priority and life goal is to place the family first, instead it shows that some women are complete different and do not abide by the standard that have been set throughout