Tom Buchanan is a strong and manipulative character who tries to control anyone he wishes to; and because Daisy is his wife she acts child-like and immature to show others that Tom does not hurt her because he loves her. "'I hate that word hulking,' objected Tom crossly, 'even in kidding.' 'Hulking,' insisted Daisy'" (17). .
Daisy's personality overcomes a tremendous change as the book progresses; from being a cheerful child-like airhead, she reveals her true identity, a selfish and superficial woman. She betrays the one man who bases his entire life around the love for her; Jay Gatsby. As he is formerly poor, he spends five years of his life trying to create a perfect life for Daisy; a Platonic Conception. Not only does Daisy cheat on Tom because she was tired of his disloyalties, but she also uses his passionate personality to temporary fulfill her happiness. "'Go ahead,' answered Daisy genially, 'and if you want to take down addresses here's my little gold pencil. 'She Looked around after a moment and told me the girl was 'common but pretty', and I knew that except for half hour she'd been with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time" (102). Daisy Buchanan is a woman who is enticed only by Tom's abundant wealth and support that he has no problem sharing with her. For this, and not the love, Daisy and Tom are married. It is a marriage out of convenience, one that is just the next step in both of their lives. Daisy gives an expression that she would have married Gatsby had it not been that he was initially poor. This is apparent when Gatsby says, "'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly. That is it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jungle of it, the cymbal's song of it High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl" (115). Daisy is one of the wealthy, aristocrat, and romantic domineering 'Golden Girls'.