DAISY

• 'her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.' pg87


  False happiness. Conflicted, loss and pain. loss of stability and ease in marriage with tom that lacks love.
• 'it was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down.' pg14
• 'her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like toms.' nick on daisy, chapter one.

  Eyes = a motif of the novella

  Restlessness

  'defiant' teased throughout the novella before the climax.

  Comparison - something intrisicatly similair about eachother that keeps them together (money)
• 'im p-parylized by with happiness.' pg14

  Peformance of happiness to meet the male gaze, desires, and climb the social ladder.

  Novella explores the human emotions and their complexities, the impact of the AD and social expectations.
• ''she had 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. There was excitement in her voice that men found difficult to forget.'
• 'look' she complained. 'i hurt it... you did it tom... i know you didnt mean to but you did do it. thats what i get for marrying a great big, hulking, physical specimin of a ...' pg14

  Infantilization - feminist lens / could nick be doing to make her sympathetic in the murder of Myrtle?

  Pattern of violence - feminist lens

  Vulnerable and frustrated in marriage

  Larger theme of complexities and shortcomings of marriage of wealthy.

  Appearance vs reality.
• 'i'm glad its a girl nad i hope she'll be a fool. thats the best thing a girl can ever be in this world. a beautiful little fool.' pg22


  said by Zelda Fitsgerald.

  Syntactic [arralelism reinforces her sadness in birthing a girl.

  Link to Ruth.

  Fool - suffragetes
• 'Daisy took her face in her hands as if feeling its lovely shape.' pg21

  Value of external appearance.

  Inner reality hidden behind 'lovely shape.'

  Symbolic grasp at thoughts.
• GATSBY: 'her voice is full of money...'

  
  

  NICK: 'it was full of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the symbols song of it... high in a while palace the kings daughter, the golden girl' pg115
• 'vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving gatsby - nothing. he felt married to her - that was all.' pg142
• 'i wont stand this!' cried daisy. 'oh please, lets get out.' pg127
• 'they're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'it makes me sad because i've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.' pg89
• ‘that many men had already loved Daisy – it increased her value in his eyes.’