‘The Great Gatsby’ Book Review

Daisy the Great Gazelle is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel The Great Gatsby. In the book, Daisy is portrayed as an intelligent, but slightly spoiled female professional who has a daughter named Rose. Despite this, she’s incredibly beautiful and infamous for her glamorous status, thanks to her Elite status and extraordinary wealth.

Rose is described as the ‘perfect’ young girl in Fitzgerald’s story, and Daisy’s life is almost eternally clouded with doubt and romanticism. In the beginning of their relationship, Rose is described as innocent and adoring, but when Rose falls for one of Fitzgerald’s clients, the writer makes mention of this fact in the third person. This irks Rose’s father, Nick, who is less than thrilled by the whole matter, but decides to stand by his daughter, despite his own daughter’s apparent attraction to another man. Things only get worse when Nick discovers that Rose is actually the ‘perfect’ type of girl he wants to marry, so he forces Daisy into bed with him, and they become lovers. It is here, however, that we are introduced to Daisy’s genetically enhanced father, which results in her falling in love with her again – and in doing so, causing her to conceive another child.

In an interesting subplot, Rose’s ex-boyfriend Tom manages to win back the affections of her parents with the help of one of Fitzgerald’s many great endings. Tom is described as resembling a ‘juvenile delinquent’, and is described as being ‘delicately thin and pale, except for his bright red lips’. One of Fitzgerald’s characters, Meyer Kalenbacher, is even seen peering into a photograph of them when it was taken, probably in an attempt to pinpoint where the resemblance stops and starts. All these elements make ‘The Great Gatsby’ an interesting and engrossing novel. It’s one of those rare literary works that, on first reading, leaves you utterly spellbound by the magic it conjures up, and from which every subsequent read demands more of the same…