"They're such beautiful shirts." ... "It makes me sad because I've never seen such -- such beautiful shirts before." (p. 92)
From context:
Daisy is over at Gatsby as he tells her about his house, and as he tells her about his English shirts, he starts throwing them at her and she grabs them and starts crying into them. Her tears were probably triggered by sense perception: smelling his scent on his shirt, reminding her of the happy past that they had together.
Literary Importance: CRUX
Essentially, this quote lays the first foundations upon which the reader begins develop their opinion of Daisy. Is Daisy a Sympathetic character? Yes and no. Yes because as far as we seen, her husband is an abusive cheating brute hence why she is over at Gatsby's and even there, her first love, Gatsby, doesn't even love her as a person anymore. No, because Daisy always plays the damsel in distress, taking the easy way out and never owning up to her own mistakes. This scene is basically the even that decided whether she was a money loving person or a poor lady who has to choose between the two people who she loves dearly, and in their own special little way, they both suck.
Further Exploration on this topic:
- How does the rest of the novel depend on the understanding of this shirt scene?
- http://vagendamagazine.com/2013/05/the-great-gatsby-hating-daisy
- http://www.quora.com/The-Great-Gatsby-1925-novel/Is-Daisy-Buchanan-misunderstood
Daisy is over at Gatsby as he tells her about his house, and as he tells her about his English shirts, he starts throwing them at her and she grabs them and starts crying into them. Her tears were probably triggered by sense perception: smelling his scent on his shirt, reminding her of the happy past that they had together.
Literary Importance: CRUX
Essentially, this quote lays the first foundations upon which the reader begins develop their opinion of Daisy. Is Daisy a Sympathetic character? Yes and no. Yes because as far as we seen, her husband is an abusive cheating brute hence why she is over at Gatsby's and even there, her first love, Gatsby, doesn't even love her as a person anymore. No, because Daisy always plays the damsel in distress, taking the easy way out and never owning up to her own mistakes. This scene is basically the even that decided whether she was a money loving person or a poor lady who has to choose between the two people who she loves dearly, and in their own special little way, they both suck.
Further Exploration on this topic:
- How does the rest of the novel depend on the understanding of this shirt scene?
- http://vagendamagazine.com/2013/05/the-great-gatsby-hating-daisy
- http://www.quora.com/The-Great-Gatsby-1925-novel/Is-Daisy-Buchanan-misunderstood