1. Women in The Great Gatsby
... Gatsby Daisy Buchanan is portrayed as shallow, ditzy, and foolish. Daisy cares about her appearance and wealth more than anything. She married Tom Buchanan for his wealth and his rank within the social class. Before she married Tom, she was in love with Gatsby. She promised Gatsby when he got back from war they would get married, but she did otherwise ... his money. "Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust " (Fitzgerald 131) She tried hard to achieve the American Dream, but in the end she belonged in The Valley of ...
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- Grade Level: High School