Daisy great gatsby biography

Character in The Great Gatsby

Fictional character

Daisy Fay Buchanan is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The character is a wealthy socialite from Louisville, Kentucky, who resides in the fashionable town of East Egg on Long Island during the Jazz Age.

She is narrator Nick Carraway's second cousin, once removed, and the wife of polo player Tom Buchanan, with whom she has a daughter. Before marrying Tom, Daisy had a romantic relationship with Jay Gatsby. Her choice between Gatsby and Tom is one of the novel's central conflicts.

Daisy great gatsby biography

She was described by Fitzgerald as a "golden girl".

Fitzgerald based the character on socialite Ginevra King. Fitzgerald and King shared a passionate romance from 1915 to 1917, but their relationship stagnated after King's father warned the writer that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls".

After their relationship ended, Fitzgerald enlisted in the United States Army during World