The Great Gatsby; Chapters 1-2 Blog Post

   Daisy Buchanan. She is the wife to Tom Buchanan, cousin of Nick Carraway, and romantic interest of Jay Gatsby who "happens" to live across the bay from the Buchanan residence. Daisy is married to Tom, but is mostly enrapturing him for the purpose of being happy by using his money. In chapter 2, Myrtle Wilson, Tom's "woman of the moment," as it can be said, brings up Daisy to Tom multiple times, in what to Tom would be a rather annoying and childish manner.

  My opinion of Daisy is that she is the girl who was meant for the life opposing the life that she was born into. She has her way of getting what she wants, while on the surface seeming innocent in a way, as well as, very kind and outgoing.

  I feel as though Myrtle is another example of one born into the life opposing the life she wants, and personally is a distractor, side fling for Tom. Myrtle is Tom's, change of pace we could say, and I say that because Myrtle and Tom are both married, however, they both manage to find a reason to live a life outside of the lives they are leading and Tom seems to carry his hulking personality to give Myrtle a taste of the life she so desires to lead. I do not feel as though they will leave their existing relationships to remarry and be together, because there seems to be a sense of uneasiness between the two hidden within all of this.

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