Daisy isn't really talking about—or weeping over—the shirts from England. Her strong emotional reaction comes from the excitement of Gatsby having the proper wealth, and perhaps remorse over the complexity of the situation; he is finally a man she could marry, but she is already wed to Tom.
Daisy's wedding is described in the novel, and it isn't difficult to see that she is rather upset just before the wedding takes place. She gets a letter from Jay Gatsby that disturbs her, as she is reminded that she rejected the man she really loved in favor of a wealthy man.
Gatsby is only in love with Daisy because of her identity and what she represents. He is unable to forget the past where Daisy once saw him as a perfect man in her eyes and can't accept his new reality. Gatsby's want of wealth and power only proves that he only loves the idea of her and not actually her.
In The Great Gatsby, Daisy reacts with surprise and then joy upon meeting Gatsby. She does not know he will be at Nick's when she arrives for tea.
Analyze the passage and explain what, exactly, has caused Daisy to become so emotional as she wraps herself in all those fancy shirts. The beautiful, colorful shirts are a symbol of what Daisy's lost by marrying Tom.
Obviously, Daisy, with all her money, is not going to cry over some shirts; why does she cry? She cries because she regrets not waiting for Gatsby because she could have been happy and rich.
"I did love him once—but I loved you too." Gatsby's eyes opened and closed. Here we finally get a glimpse at Daisy's real feelings—she loved Gatsby, but also Tom, and to her those were equal loves.
Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care.
Daisy, like her husband, has an affair but, she cheats on Tom with Gatsby. She slowly starts to lose faith in humanity and starts to see the world as a very bad place. She wishes for her daughter to not see the world for what it is.
There is only one child among them, Daisy's daughter, and while the child is well looked after by a nurse and affectionately treated by her mother, Daisy's life does not revolve exclusively around her maternal role.
Jordan recounts to Nick the story of Daisy's wedding day, when Daisy got drunk and told Jordan that she did not want to marry Tom. Her decision to return the pearls ends up being purely symbolic, however, because she finally does wed Tom for his wealth and high social standing.
Daisy chose to marry Tom over Gatsby because Tom was wealthier and more powerful than Gatsby. Gatsby grew up poor and never had money as Tom did. Daisy promised he would wait for Gatsby while he went to war, but she knew her mother would never let her marry a poor man.
The implication here is that Daisy was romantically experienced and certainly no virgin, an implication further supported in the fact that there was no mention of loss of virginity when Gatsby "took her."
He has gone too far into the obsession of having Daisy; she is his world now. His mind will not develop any further, he wants to freeze this moment forever. With losing her, he would lose all he has, his symbol of wealth, his hope, his future, and finally, as we will see later, his will to live.
Daisy "Fay" Buchanan is the villainous tritagonist in The Great Gatsby.
Daisy does not want to be seen attending Gatsby's funeral because she does care about her reputation, despite the fact that she has never loved Tom. As a result, she makes the decision to abstain out of concern that she will damage both her connection with Tom and her standing in the eyes of the general public.
The only people who came to pay their respects were Nick, Gatsby's father, Owl Eyes, and a few servants. Even Daisy, Gatsby's beloved, did not attend the funeral, which shows the superficial nature of their relationship.
Many people could fall within this spectrum without even being completely aware of it. One that shows many signs of mild autism through social behaviors is James Gatz, also known as Jay Gatsby, the titular character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Daisy seems unhappy with her marriage to Tom from the outset of the novel. Even the night before their wedding, she got drunk and told Jordan to tell everyone she had changed her mind.
In a queer reading of Gatsby, Nick doesn't just love Gatsby, he's in love with him. In some readings, the tragedy is that Gatsby doesn't love him back. In others, Gatsby is as repressed as Nick, each chasing an unavailable woman to avoid admitting what he truly desires.
Their love affair makes Gatsby optimistic that Daisy is his true love, but he really only sees and loves an idealized version of her that he has carried for years. In the end, Daisy chooses to stay with her husband even when knowing he had also had an affair.
His nervousness about the present and about how Daisy's attitude toward him may have changed causes him to knock over Nick's clock, symbolizing the clumsiness of his attempt to stop time and retrieve the past. Gatsby's character throughout his meeting with Daisy is at its purest and most revealing.
Daisy, too, is moved to sincerity when her emotions get the better of her. Before the meeting, Daisy displays her usual sardonic humor; when Nick invites her to tea and asks her not to bring Tom, she responds, “Who is 'Tom'?” Yet, seeing Gatsby strips her of her glib veneer.
To impress Daisy, Gatsby invites her to one of his parties where he hopes to demonstrate that he knows the young, famous and influential in the upper levels of society (Fitzgerald 111).
Soon after the wedding, Daisy became pregnant, and Tom started to have affairs with other women. Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby has asked to be invited to his house at a time when Daisy is also present. Nick kisses Jordan.