Blog 11: A look into Daisy Buchanan's character

    Daisy Buchanan's character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is further developed in chapter seven. While driving home, Gatsby and Daisy hit Myrtle Wilson, who ran out in front of the car. The car wavered and then barreled on down the road without hesitation. Myrtle, once lover of Tom Buchanan, when he went behind Daisy's back, died after the incident. This whole tragedy made me question Gatsby's character, because, I was under the impression that he was a man devoted to the charity of others. He was always opening his door to strangers and sending replacement dresses to women who tore theirs at his parties. It seems out of the ordinary for Mr. Jay Gatsby to be running away from a crime scene, which he himself is the doer. Then, in this chapter, upon Nick's questioning about it, Gatsby admits it was Daisy who was driving. Although, this does not make the action any less terrible, I feel Daisy would be more likely to have done such a thing. ' "...she was nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive--and this woman rushed out just as we were passing a car coming the other way,' " (Fitzgerald,143). I am angered at Daisy, who, I feel resembles so much a child. I wish she could see what she has done and feel affected by that, but instead I feel Daisy has such a relaxed attitude to realize the depth of her mistakes. After the accident, she goes back home and eats dinner, not frantic, as I would suspect most people to be. And upon sitting at the table with Tom, "they weren't happy,...and yet they weren't unhappy either," (Fitzgerald,145). I feel Daisy doesn't want to face what is at hand, and, like a child, believes after a night's sleep, it will all be gone. Maybe this is because Daisy has always gotten out of every predicament by never being assumed as being the cause of fault. Even her own husband believes Gatsby to be the who drove that car.