Ch. 1 Journal Response

Daisy Buchanan seems to contradict her husband Tom's personality. While Tom is a serious, intimidating figure, Daisy is light-hearted and full of classic charm. Nick describes her disposition as "a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour". Daisy is an approachable character and although her and Nick don't know each other very well (despite them being family), she still has a way of making him feel comfortable. Daisy seems to be a child stuck in a woman's body. She enjoys simple things like the longest day of the year and a bird on the lawn and engages people in endearing yet unsubstantial conversation. It seems odd that Tom and Daisy would be together, while he drones on about science and polo ponies, Daisy ridicules him for being a brute or a hulking type of man. Daisy doesn't seem to take too much seriously at first. However, when she pulls Nick aside she admits to him that she's cynical about everything. Although Daisy comes off as optimistic I have a feeling as the story progresses we'll learn more about her deeper, "sophisticated" side.