Fitzgerald’s tone of contempt surrounds Daisy Buchanan targeting toward her materialistic emphasis on life. The statements she makes and the actions she does are all fake and shallow. While talking to Gatsby for the first time in many years, Daisy’s voice is h

eard “on a clear artificial note… ‘I certainly am awfully glad to see you again’” (Fitzgerald 91). This feinted gladness shows her moral instability and how she is not truly glad to see this man from her past come out of nowhere and try to see her again. The aspects of her personality require her to have material things before anything else, showing society’s influence on how she lives her life based on the capitalist economy that controls America. To further develop the covetous nature of Daisy, Fitzgerald uses the sudden change of her behavior upon viewing Gatsby’s house and his wardrobe to express that greedy people change their mannerisms to get what they want. Daisy swings from being a fake, happy acting person, to a small child with “her head in the shirts… crying stormily… ‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before’” (Fitzgerald 98). The absurdity of a person being sad because she has never seen such beautiful shirts before drives home Fitzgerald’s point better than any other sentence could. The people who value these tangible goods are obviously silly people in whom a person can have no faith or trust. The societal problems of encouraging this scramble for possession is what the author is attacking in making this scene seem unnatural and fake. By bringing out this point, the author forces the society to take a look at Daisy and see how foolishly the people of this time are acting, just like her.

Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s hulking husband, is bathed in a spiteful tone by Fitzgerald, who shows contempt for this character’s materialistic values and disregard for good character. While describing the meeting between Nick Carraway, the narrator, and thi

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