A golden girl is someone who is very successful or popular. They are perfect and never do anything wrong. They appear to have the perfect life. They are pretty and have a skill or talent that they can market. An example of a golden girl was Kate Middleton. She was born into money and then she married into money. She is always dressed well and looks perfect all the time. She does charity work and seems to have a perfect life.
Daisy is clever because she uses her innocence and naiveness to manipulate the world around her. “It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” I think this quote shows that she uses thing like her voice to attract people and get them to look at her and listen to her. Also in the scene at the party when she is spending time with Gatsby, she gives Tom her little golden pencil which is making sure that he is occupied and she places Nick ‘on guard’ in the garden to act as a safe guard so her and Gatsby don’t get caught. She also is clever by acting like she didn’t know Tom was cheating because if she made a big fuss about it then she knew she would lose a lot.
It says that Gatsby is ‘chasing’ her. This means that Gatsby believes that as soon as he meets with Daisy again, then she will automatically fall in love with him and leave Tom to be with him. This implies that he doesn’t think about how she feels and he will just be able to have her with her saying anything about how she feels. “‘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. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!'” This quote shows that Gatsby thinks he is just going to come back into Daisy’s life and take her back with thinking about what she wants.
In the 1920’s, women had very little control over their lives and their place in society was largely determined by their beauty and popularity. Daisy wants her daughter to be a fool because then she wouldn’t really know what is going on in the world around her. Daisy says this because she is smart and knows about things for example Tom cheating on her. She is hurt by this and if her daughter was a fool then when she grows up then if something like that happens to her she won’t be as aware of it and therefore won’t be as hurt by it. If she is a fool then she won’t see the world for what it really is.
Daisy smashes up Gatsby’s life. This is because she leads him on so much that he bases his whole new life of just trying to get her back. Everything he does is just to get her back and she just ends up being the reason he is killed. She then goes on living her life without even caring that he is dead and it is partly he fault.
Daisy could be considered amoral when she drives off after hitting Myrtle with the car because she doesn’t stay to see what happened, like she doesn’t care about it. She just leaves others to take care of it, which ends up with Gatsby being blamed and she just gets away with nothing. “The ‘death car’ as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend. She could also be considered amoral when she doesn’t go to Gatsby’s funeral. She doesn’t even try to make contact after eh died. It seems like she just messed with his emotions and led him on. She doesn’t really seem to care that he died and she just ignores it and moves on even though she is a part of the reason that he is dead. “I called Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them. ‘Left no address?’ ‘No.’ ‘Say when they’d be back?’ ‘No.’ ‘Any idea where they are? How I could reach them?’ ‘I don’t know. Can’t say'”
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