When Daisy is first introduced, she is laid out on a couch with the wind blowing around her. Everything about her behavior at this time and later in the book suggests fragility. Even her name, Daisy, implies delicacy. A daisy is a beautiful white flower with very thin leaves and a thin stem, and handling them requires care and gentility. Daisies are somewhat beautiful but weak all the same, which is an accurate way to describe the character Daisy as well. When Daisy speaks to the narrator, Nick, for the first time, she stutters and Nick notices two key things about Daisy. First, he notices her voice, and immediately Nick's linguistics change upon hearing it. He becomes somewhat poetic, describing her voice as "the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again" (9). Secondly, he notices her charm. He is wary of his arrival at the Buchanan's and his visit with his cousin and her husband at first and is even aware that Daisy's apparent exuberance due to his arrival is just another trick of her charisma and, really, has nothing to do with him. He says she had a look that looked as if she was "promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had" (9). What Nick means by this is that Daisy was so charming that she could make you believe that you were the most important person to her, even when she really didn't care about you at all. Daisy's charm is a characteristic she used to get what she wanted, and to hide what she was really feeling. When Tom and Gatsby confront each other and Daisy is involved in the conversation, Gatsby realizes this about Daisy's charm. .
Another of Daisy's key characteristics is one that she perfected so well, and it kept her in the social circles and lifestyle she wanted and was accustomed to. However, this same characteristic also led her into more than one unfortunate situation and was also the cause of major escalated tension and anger in the novel.
