The Great Gatsby: Should Daisy be Condenmed? Yes/No and Pointers Why?

For all of those read the great gatsby can you please look at this question as a good essay question to answer. Please give me you're insight on what you think about the subject of Daisy being condemned or not.

The Great Gatsby: Should Daisy be Condenmed? Yes/No and Pointers Why?
Daisy condemns herself in the book. She has married a man who says he loves her, but he cheats on her. She believes women are better off not knowing anything at all(the dumb fool comment about her daughter). She finds a man who would love her differently than her husband, but she stays with the man who abuses her because of his wealth. Then she kills a woman, and lets someone else get killed for it. All these things, no matter how much Daisy tries, will haunt her for the rest of her life. She will live a miserable life, never truly being happy because of her choices.
Reply:Daisy is the heart and soul of the Great Gatsby. The whole book is a condemnation of Daisy, her husband and her tennis playing friend. Daisy killed a person was indirectly responsible for Gatsby's death and would have gladly had an affair with Gatsby IF he didn't insist she leave her husband. He describes her life as a future Gatsby wanted, the American dream. But the American dream as defined only by money and wealth and caring nothing for other people had already passed by in history and proven to be morally bankrupt. (It was written during the time of the Industrial Robber Barons). Yet Fitzgerald observes at the end that people chase it faster and faster thinking that they can grasp it, but what they don't realize is that they had already reached it and passed it by. It is so empty they didn't realize it. But here is how Fitzgerald wrote it:



"And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not

know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.



Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning----So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Reply:As much as I wanted to, I could never dislike the character of Daisy. I don't know if Fitzgerald wants you to either. She doesn't seem to be aware of anything that she does. She doesn't seem to understand how horribly her actions affect everyone around her.



There's an important line in the book. I can't think of the exact quote. It's toward the ending. The gist of it is that Nick says that all these people weren't really bad people, they were just careless. That's what Daisy is. She's careless.

In a case where Daisy would be condemned, she would plead ignorance. It's not her fault for how she acts, but it's the fault of how American society has shaped her. This book isn't a criticism of the individual people, but of the New York lifestyle. The New York lifestyle corrupted Daisy.



She shouldn't be condemned. She should be saved.
Reply:Of course she should be condemned. She killed a woman and caused an innocent man's death and walked away without even a backward glance. She is a despiciable person. Pax - C

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