As the book goes on, Nick and you as a reader, find out aspects of Daisy’s personality that change your views about her. Daisy is a fake character, whose true personality is not found out until the very end.

Daisy, in the beginning of the book, is perceived very differently than she is in the end. When you first see Daisy she is lying on a couch looking sophisticated and charming. She greets Nick charmingly, but you can detect some fake enthusiasm in the way she says, “I’m paralyzed with happiness”(p.9). It is in this scene you discover Daisy’s most important characteristic, her voice. Nick describes it as a soft murmur that makes people lean towards her. Nick later says her voice has a distinct characteristic that draws people to her. Daisy seems almost witty when she mocks Tom and his foolish theories. Daisy seems very warm and caring when she says that she loves having Nick at her table. Then you discover that Tom is cheating on Daisy, but Daisy is doing nothing about it, so you pity her. You then see that Daisy is very cynical when she says, “that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”(p.17). At the end of the beginning of the book, you view Daisy as a little fake, but overall she seems to be a charming, sophisticated person.

In the middle of the book you find out about Daisy and Gatsby’s past relations and Daisy engages in new relations with Gatsby, thus cheating on Tom. When Daisy and Gatsby first meet again, Daisy is a little shy around him, but she loosens up and warms up to him. It begins to appear that Daisy might really care about Gatsby. Daisy later goes to one of Gatsby s parties and is frightened and shocked by the raw emotion displayed. This shows that Daisy is a person of a calmer and more sophisticated demeanor. Later on in the book, Gatsby and Nick go to Daisy’s house and Daisy says, “You know I love you”(p.116), showing she really cares for Gatsby. Daisy then shows off her daughter, just like she was just another pretty thing she owned, which shows another uncaring side of Daisy. Another thing Nick discovers in this section is the quality in Daisy’s voice that draws people towards her, money. The fact that Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby makes her a dishonest person, but she is somewhat excused for it, in the readers’ eyes, because she appears to really love Gatsby.

In the end of the book, Daisy’s true character really comes out. When everyone goes to a hotel in New York, all the secrets about Daisy and Gatsby come out. Tom confronts Daisy about Gatsby and Daisy says that she loves Gatsby and is leaving Tom. Then Tom tells Daisy about Gatsby’s criminal activities and persuades her to come back to him. This shows that Daisy is extremely fickle with her emotions and probably never really loved Gatsby; it was just something to amuse her. Daisy and Gatsby then leave and drive home, and on the way Daisy is about to hit another car, so she swerves to hit a person instead. That person is Myrtle Wilson. Once she hits Myrtle, Daisy just keeps on driving. This shows she really does not care about anyone but herself. Daisy then goes

home and is seen just talking with Tom, as if nothing has happened. The next day, Gatsby is killed by Mr. Wilson, because he thinks Gatsby hit his wife instead of Daisy. This shows the extreme dishonesty of Daisy, because she did no tell anyone about her killing Myrtle. Daisy does not even show up to Gatsby’s funeral, as it turns out that she and Tom have gone to Europe. Daisy just distances herself from the huge mess and retreats into her money. She ruins three people’s lives and doesn’t even care, since she will always have her money to protect her. This illustrates Daisy’s utter carelessness. As Nick says, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money and vast carelessness”(p.180). Daisy is a careless, selfish person, who cares for no one but herself.

Daisy Fay’s true personality does not come out until the very end of the book. Throughout the beginning and middle sections of the book, Daisy is seen as a sophisticated, charming and caring person. This personality is revealed to be false. In the end, you find the truth in Daisy’s character; she is nothing but a careless rich person, who does not care about anyone else and just destroys people’s lives, then retreats into her money.