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I like how you organized/wrote this. It definitely resembles a poem. I don't know if that was your intention--but it flows really nicely. Especially the beginning.

I like your point about her lack of character development. That's an important term, although we didn't really use it in class. The funny thing about this novel is that I don't think any of the characters show development. In fact, that's probably one of the reasons I didn't like it for a long time. It was hard for me to care about any of these people since they all are so shallow. But then I realized this is Fitzgerald's point as he offers a pretty damning critique of the 20s. Since the book has stayed relevant, it makes me think that we still behave much the same way. We are still obsessed with the same entitlement and desire for wealth and things.

I wanted to hear a little more at the end. Like your take on what you think Fitzgerald is doing by presenting us with wealthy characters who, as you put it, are so full of vanity and so disingenuous.

Thanks for the work!

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Only thinking about herself, but who else does she have to?

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Only thinking about herself, but who else does she have to?

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“Smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into [her] money or [her] vast carelessness” (179)

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“Smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into [her] money or [her] vast carelessness” (179)

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Driving cars, driving wedges, driving force

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Driving cars, driving wedges, driving force

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Forced into someone else just because he was into her

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Forced into someone else just because he was into her

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Daisy is portrayed as a stereotypical wealthy housewife; however, there isn’t much more to her character than that. She is shallow, selfish, artificial, and poor at handling her emotions. She is sometimes described almost in an antagonistic sense and undergoes little character development throughout the novel. A question that was raised is, how does someone end up this way? Surely no one is born with the morals (or lack thereof) and vanity she has. I believe her upbringing must have had something to do with it—her family pushed their beliefs and ideals onto her; her mother is even mentioned to have made her marry Tom due to Gatsby’s financial status and having been drafted into the war at the time. Tom may also have had an effect on her personality. Therefore, she joined the other elites in being ingenuine and careless. As Louis Rene Beres puts it, she became lost in the “mass” instead of following her own decisions and being her own individual.

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Her heart yearned for him but he “was poor and she was tired of waiting for [him]” (130)

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Her heart yearned for him but he “was poor and she was tired of waiting for [him]” (130)

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The kind of voice that she’s aware she has

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The kind of voice that she’s aware she has

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Spitting saccharine syllables “in 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” (9)

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Spitting saccharine syllables “in 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” (9)