Write down the definition we developed in class of ‘the golden girl’. What does this term refer to? If you can, list an example of a modern-day golden girl.
A golden girl is a successful girl who is high is society and is everything girls wish they were. This relates to Daisy as she is a high figure in society is gorgeous and wealthy. She seem successful because of her ranking in society. They are admired by most. The Kardashians are modern day golden girls, they seem to have a perfect life and is want everyone wants to be.
Explain how Daisy could be considered clever. Use at least one quote from the text to support your answer.
Daisy is very clever and good at manipulating others to make them see things like she does. She uses Gatsby’s feeling for her to manipulate him, she makes him believe she is involve with him. She was playing games with Tom and Gatsby when Gatsby tried to tell Tom how she felt about him in the hotel room. “I did love him once – but I loved you too.” Daisy manipulated Gatsby by making him believe there was actually a chance for them to be together. She manipulates most men in the novel, she makes herself defenceless and Tom protects her and convinces Nick to cover for her and Gatsby.
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.
Gatsby has been trying to get Daisys attention for years, Daisy is a very high person in society and Gatsby treats her like an object and not a person. Jordan tells Nick about how Daisy and Gatsby met and how popular Daisy was. “She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville.” Daisy had dated a lot of boys when she was young and that made Gatsby think this increased her value. Gatsby also says that her voice is full of money. Men ten to talk about her as just an object, Tom Buchanan’s wife, and how beautiful she is instead of being her own person and how intelligent she is.
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.
The 1920’s were a time where woman were starting to have more rights. Flappers were woman who were seen as immoral, energetic, and embraced their outrageous freedom. Daisy wants her daughter to be a fool because if she was a really smart and individual society might not accept her which will make her life very hard. She also hopes if she is a fool she will not realise all of her limited opportunities she has as a woman.
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 breaker a lot of people without ever trying to fix them after she is finished. She completely breaks both Myrtle and George Wilson by murdering Myrtle. This breaks George so much it lead him to commit suicide. She also makes Gatsby suffer, she broke his heart by leading him on and he ends up dead because of her. He was short by heart broken George after Myrtles death. Nick ends up falling apart after the summer from all of the stress he had been through and Daisy never reached out to him once it was over.
Explain how Daisy could be considered ‘amoral’. Use at least two quotes from the text to support your answer.
A person who is amoral is someone who is lacking in moral sense and is unconcerned with the rightness and wrongness of something. Daisy is compared to a rose by Nick meaning from first glance she is perfect and everything people want but she has sharp edges that hurt if you aren’t careful. She hurts a lot of people close to her, she hurt her husband when she cheated on him. She hurt Nick by putting him through so much and never. bothering to give him a call once the summer was over. She hurt Gatsby by leading him on for so long and hurt George by killing his wife. She thinks she is above everyone and someone will come along and pick up all of the pieces of mistakes she has made.