The ‘golden girl’ term is used in the great gatsby many times to define Daisy. The term golden girl is quite like the leading lady the girl that has the “perfect life”. Daisy in this movie represents the American dream and wealth.
Explain how Daisy could be considered clever. Use at least one quote from the text to support your answer.
Daisy is clever in the way that she has realised the limits on what female can do and has used this to create a foolish and shallow act. This helps her to live the so-called American dream. In the book, she goes on saying “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”. This is Daisy explaining to Nick how practically the only way to make it as a female is to be a fool and not stand up for yourself.
The notes above talk about how Gatsby views Daisy as a possession to be collected. Explain this further. Find a quote from the text to support your answer and explain how the quote supports your ideas.
Daisy in this book always looked at as something to have or get. Whenever people are talking about Daisy they talk about her as if she is a possession to earn and have under their control. Daisy looks and vice is the main thing she would ever be mentioned by not her personality just outside of her. “There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… His wife and mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control” The word control is used in this quote to show that Mrytle and Daisy are something to own tell what to do not love and allow them to make their own decisions.
Describe what life was like in the 1920’s for women. After you have done so, explain why you think Daisy wants her daughter to be a ‘fool’ in this world.
Life as a woman in the 1920s was lots of men and fathers telling them what they can be doing and what they should be doing. Daisy explains this as she says she wants her little girl to be a fool in this world. I believe Daisy means that she thinks it will be easier if her girl is careless and silly and not know the limits that she actually has. Almost to live in this bubble where someone can look after her and control her.
Towards the end of the novel, Nick says that Daisy and Tom were “careless people…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…”. Explain what Daisy ‘smashes up’ (figuratively speaking) in this story.
Daisy literally ruins Myrtle’s life and from this, she also ends up ruining Wilsons. As she emotionally and physically breaks the man from this action which leads him to commit suicide. One of the biggest is Gatsby as well she well is also the death of him as what she did gatsby gets blamed and killed for. But even before that, she was always giving false hope saying that they would be able to be together. Even after heartbreaking all of these peoples lives she still runs away and doesn’t even care about them like she doesn’t go to Gatsby funeral or doesn’t stop on the side of the road when she kills mrytle. she falls into her wee safety net she has with all of this money.
Explain how Daisy could be considered ‘amoral’. Use at least two quotes from the text to support your answer.
Amoral is when you unconcerned about the rightness or wrongness of something. Daisy is immoral because she ruins so many peoples lives and then doesn’t even care or understand that they have consequences. Either let her money or other people to deal with it. “the “death car” the newspaper called it, didn’t even stop” .”‘was daisy driving?’ ‘yes,’ ‘but of course I’ll say I was”.