Effect Of Daisy In The Great Gatsby

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In ‘The Great Gatsby’ Nick Carraway our main character, becomes caught up within problems from both old and new friendships that he makes throughout the story. Throughout all the problems in this story many of the Characters become impacted by the events but, out of all of them Daisy was impacted the most by more emotional standards than an actual change of person.In all the events throughout the story the one common thing in them was Daisy herself, All of the actions taken by Gatsby are to get to her; Both her and Toms Mistakes is what causes the climax and end of the story to even happen in the first place. Gatsby had helped to impact and develop Daisys character by coming back to her and reminding her of what she used to be and had. Gatsby …show more content…
Tom helps in daisy’s decision to actually to go further with Gatsby as he is the one to start cheating on her in the first place, something she knows somewhat of. “Daisy watched him and laughed, her sweet, exciting laugh; a tiny gust of powder rose from her bosom into the air.“The rumor is,” whispered Jordan, “that that’s Tom’s girl on the telephone.”We were silent. The voice in the hall rose high with annoyance: “Very well, then, I won’t sell you the car at all. . . . I’m under no obligations to you at all . . . and as for your bothering me about it at lunch time, I won’t stand that at all!” “Holding down the receiver,” said Daisy cynically.(pg.122/3, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby)”. He helps to impact and influence the main problem of the story before the problem even began. One other thing that tom helps to impact is daisy's character as a whole it's even shown in the text that she hasn't always been like she is, ““You always look so cool,” she repeated.
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago.(pg.125, F. Scott Fitzgerald The
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Out of everyone in ‘The Great Gatsby’ Daisy is the most impacted by the events due to the fact that almost all the events in the story, the ones that mostly involve Tom and Gatsby, involve her in some way of he being the issues in the first place. Even though Gatsby was equally involved with Daisies problems, but in the end Gatsby didn't have to live with the problems and issues he caused because of his death, so now Daisy is left alone; with a man who she has cheated on and made their relationship rockier than ever then also being at fault for the death of multiple people, because she never truly changed as a

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