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The Beauty and the Beast

By: Chris Rice
Deceitfulintended to mislead, cheat, show dishonesty and fraudthis, is Daisy
Buchanan. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan illustrates this definition perfectly.
She shows dishonesty, fraudulency, attractiveness and temptation. Daisy is a deceiving golddigger and is guilty of all deaths that occur at the end of the book. The reasons that show this is
that she stays with Tom after she knows he is cheating on him. She also plays Gatsby like a harp,
playing him to the point where he is in love with her and to top it all off, Daisy is a murderer. She
kills Myrtle Wilson and lets Jay Gatsby take the blame and fall for it.
One piece of evidence that Daisy is a gold-digger is the fact that her husband is cheating
on her, she knows it, and continues to stay with him. Just after their wedding, he gets in a car
crash, with a maid he was sleeping with, from the Santa Barbara Hotel. A quote from chapter 4
says, Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car.
The girl who was with him got into the paper, too, because her arm was brokenshe was one of
the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel. The next April Daisy had her little girl, and they
went to France for a year. (77). This evidence is substantial to the fact that Tom Buchanan is
cheating on his wife, and the reason she stays with him is his money. No women would stay with
a cheating husband, just weeks after their wedding, unless they were very wealthy, and Tom
Buchanan was.
Another point of evidence to support my case, that Daisy is a guilty, would be that she
tells Gatsby she loves him even though she is married to Tom Buchanan. This is proof that she is
a gold-digger because she stays with Tom while he is cheating on her, for his money, then as
soon as she finds someone richer, she wants to be with him. In chapter 7 the following events

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occur as Tom is leaving the room while Gatsby, Nick and Jordan are at Daisys for tea. As he
left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down kissing him on
the mouth. You know I love you. (116). This quote proves that Daisy is a fraudulent and
deceitful person. It is proof that when she is with Tom, she loves Tom but when she is with
Gatsby, she loves Gatsby. As soon as she walks out of Nick Carraways house and sees Gatsbys
mansion, she loves him. She takes advantage of Gatsbys honest love for her because she
wants to be spoiled rotten by his wealth.
A broad point, which proves Daisys guiltiness, would be that she killed Myrtle Wilson!
Daisy was driving Jay Gatsbys yellow car when she ran over Myrtle Wilson in the midst of the
night. The following quote from chapter 7 proves that Daisy was indeed who killed Myrtle
Wilson.
Was Daisy driving?
Yes, Gatsby said after a moment, but of course Ill say I was.(143).
This quote shows Gatsbys bravery, that he will let the law take his own life to save Daisys. His
true heroic nature is shown, but with this heroism, also shown is Daisys pathetic cowardice. She
is so shallow that she will let someone die for her, when she has every chance to come out and
admit her wrong-doings. Daisy is truly selfish and only cares about herself. She leaves Gatsby
with nothing and takes everything for herself, as quoted in chapter 8. She vanished into her rich
house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsbynothing. (149). She cares nothing about Gatsby
and how he ends up, all she cares about is her life, her wealth, her men, her future; its all about
Daisy. If she truly loved Gatsby, like she says she does multiple times, she would own-up to her
mistakes and take the fall, because her not confessing leads to Gatsbys death. Clearly, Daisy
does not love Jay Gatsby; she loves his money. Daisy killed Myrtle Wilson in Jay Gatsbys car,

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and then allows Gatsby to take the blame. Then, the new widower George Wilson wants to
avenge his wifes death. He thinks Gatsby killed his wife; therefore, he decides to kill Gatsby.
Lastly George Wilson decides to take his own life. All of the deaths that occur are because of one
person, Daisy Buchanan.
Daisy Buchanan is guilty of being of being a deceitful gold-digger and a murderer. She
stays with her cheating husband because of his wealth, tells Gatsby she loves him, when really
its just for his money, and is the cause of three innocent peoples deaths. A quote from chapter 9
states, Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
It eluded us then, but thats no matterto-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms
farther.And one fine morning. (180). This quote shows that Gatsby had all the faith in the
world in this beautiful girl, Daisy Buchanan. He was going to do everything this in his power to
make her love him like he loved her. He had hope, and Daisy played him like a harp; but in this
beautiful girl, there is also a beast.