Daisy Buchanan
| Daisy Buchanan | |
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| The Great Gatsby character | |
Daisy Buchanan as portrayed by Carey Mulligan
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| Created by | Francis Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Full name | Daisy Fay Buchanan (real name) |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | |
| Family | Tom Buchanan (husband) Pammy Buchanan (daughter) |
| Significant other(s) | Tom Buchanan Jay Gatsby |
| Nationality | American |
Daisy Fay Buchanan is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's magnum opus The Great Gatsby (1925). In the novel, Daisy is depicted as a married woman with a daughter that comes in contact with former lover Jay Gatsby after five years of no contact. She is widely believed to have been based on Ginevra King. She has appeared in various media related to the novel including feature films and plays. Daisy has had varying levels of reception, some being sympathetic toward her while others argue that she is the true antagonist of The Great Gatsby.
Daisy Fay was born into a wealthy Louisville family. By 1917, Daisy was courted by several officers, by which she met Jay Gatsby and the two fell in love. Before Gatsby left for war, Daisy promised to wait for him. After Jay started attending Trinity College, Oxford, Daisy sent him a letter revealing that she had married Tom Buchanan. During the marriage, Daisy gave birth to the couple's daughter, Pammy, who Daisy had hoped would be "a beautiful little fool." After her cousin Nick Carraway arrived in East Egg, having a brief reunion with Daisy, he met Gatsby who at that point had spent years trying to become wealthy so he could win Daisy's love, throwing large parties of grandeur in hopes Daisy would come. Nick successfully sets up a meeting between the two for the first time in five years, leading to an affair. At the Buchanan home, Daisy, Tom, Jordan, Nick and Gatsby decided to visit New York City, Tom taking Gatsby's yellow Rolls Royce with Jordan and Nick while Daisy and Gatsby drove alone.
Once the group reached the city, they have a party in an expensive hotel suite that descends into a confrontation between Daisy, Tom and Gatsby. Though Gatsby insisted that Daisy never loved Tom, Daisy admits that she loved both Tom and Gatsby. The party ended with Daisy driving Gatsby out of New York City in Tom's car, while Tom left with Nick and Jordan. Tom's mistress Myrtle, who earlier had a falling out with Tom, seeing Tom's car and believing he had returned for her, is killed after running out to the vehicle and being struck. Daisy, panicked, drove away from the scene of the incident. In her home in East Egg, Gatsby assured her that he would take the blame if the two were caught. Tom told George, Myrtle's husband, that it was Gatsby's car that killed Myrtle, which was followed by George going to Gatsby's home in West Egg and shooting both Gatsby and himself in a murder-suicide. After Gatsby's murder, Daisy, Tom and their daughter left East Egg, having no forwarding address either. As Gatsby took the blame, Daisy did not tell anyone of her role in Myrtle's death, the only other living person knowing the truth being Nick.
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