The Women Of Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love. She is also Tom Buchanan’s wife. Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. She made love with Gatsby before he left to the war. To Gatsby, Daisy represents the paragon of perfection she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy and that first attracted him to her. In 1919 she married Tom Buchanan, a young man from a solid, aristocratic family who could promise her a wealthy lifestyle and who had the support of her parents. She is beautiful and charming, but also fickle, shallow, bored, and sardonic. Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is also a really big Drama Queen.



Jordan Baker is one of Daisy’s close friends, she’s a woman that Nick becomes romantically involved with. She’s a very competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s; cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest; she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth. She’s a very independent women and speaks her mind. She loves to drama and likes to gossip and that’s one reason why her and Daisy are best of friends.


Myrtle Wilson is Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire. Tom was her first love, so she desperately loved him. And sometimes her big mouth gets her in trouble because she doesn’t know when to be quiet. (www.novelguide.com/thegreatgatsby/characterprofiles.html)