English resources/The Great Gatsby/Daisy Buchanan
Nick's cousin. Tom's wife. The green light. She wants to be loved and she wants to be safe. She picks safe.
3 key quotes by and about Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, in the order they happen, from Chapter 1 to Chapter 7. Learn this one first: “that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Daisy, Chapter 1).
3 quotes.
that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool
Daisy · Chapter 1 · class · love
Daisy hopes her daughter is a fool. She thinks that is the safest thing a girl can be.
I did love him once—but I loved you too
Daisy · Chapter 7 · love · honesty
Gatsby needs her to say she never loved Tom. She cannot say it cleanly.
I never loved you
Gatsby (what he wants Daisy to say) · Chapter 7 · love · the past
Four years, wiped with one sentence. Daisy will not give him that sentence.