The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1544 Words

According to the newspaper company The Telegraph, daisies can become â€Å"serious weeds† and have the ability â€Å"thrive in generally inhospitable conditions.† This informative description of a common daisy mirrors F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character, Daisy Buchanan. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Daisy tries to preserve the stability of her wealthy lifestyle through her marriage with Tom Buchanan instead of pursuing true love with Gatsby. Daisy becomes monotonous and dependent on wealth to act as an equilibrator of her life. Her dependency becomes uncontrollable, and that like that beautiful, innocent flower, she becomes a vile weed rooted in corruption. Fitzgerald implements Daisy as a way to convey the innate destructive property of wealth; it†¦show more content†¦Already, the effects of wealth is immediately taking place, almost an instantaneous reaction. She prioritizes her ambitions over the possibility of finding true love. However, after meeting the new Gatsby, she is attracted to his material wealth: â€Å"He [takes] out a pile of shirts and [begins] throwing them, one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel...While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher† (92). The shirts are symbolic of Gatsby’s heaping wealth and as the â€Å"heap mounted higher,† she continues to be amazed by the immense and accumulating amount, and beauty of the shirts. The tempting diction of â€Å"soft† and â€Å"rich† appeals greatly to Daisy because she desires a cushion, security, in order to maintain her wealth. Gatsby intentionally flaunts the extravagant display of wealth through his shirts in order to make himself more appealing to Daisy, by assuring her of his wealth that can support her. However, Daisy did not choose Gatsby because of the unpredictability concerning his future. In Daisy’s youth, â€Å"her artificial world was redolent of orch ids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestive of life in new tunes† (151). The label of Daisy’s world as â€Å"artificial† reveals the bridging partnership between privileges and pretension, that along with privilege is the burden of pretension and â€Å"sadness.† In order