My Chosen Character

DAISY BUCHANAN

Fitzgerald represent Daisy Buchanan as a fashionable woman who loves the money and she surrounded by luxury.  She is an attractive and effervescent lady, identified as a flapper. Also, she is married with Tom Buchanan and cousin Nick's. After a lot of years she met her love for the past Jay Gatsby. In the past Jay was a young officer stationed in the South during the World War I and he had a romantic relationship with Daisy. But Daisy preferred to married Tom who was a rich man and  he could give her as much riches she wanted. After met Gatsby again she was excited from the money and the luxury house that Gatsby has. Knowing that Tom had mistress, she didn't have any obstacle to free her feelings for Gatsby. Therefore, after a lot of years Gatsby and Daisy had a secret relationship but no for a long time as Tom learned about this. The story ends up in a disaster as Gatsby killed by George Wilson who thoughts that Gatsby killed his wife. Finally, Daisy proved as a apathetic woman after she didn't go to funeral of Gatsby's and she preferred to stay safety with her husband and his money.

Characters Of The Great Gatsby

Jay Gatsby

Robbert Redford in 1974 as Jay Gatsby and then Leonardo Dicaprio in a new version of great Gatsby refer to him as a lonely, mysterious and beautiful man who is in love with Daisy. Everybody's went to his parties but no one show him. This main character of the novel and the protagonsit has covered a strange background.

Daisy Buchanan



Daisy Fay Buchanan is originally from a good family in Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick Carraway’s 2nd cousin once removed. After marrying Tom Buchanan, a very rich man, she moves to East Egg, Long Island. She is beautiful and she likes to play with men. Daisy loves to being the center of attention. she is thinking more the money than anything else. she has a strong desire for love. Mainly for this reason she married Tom instead Gatsby.

 

Nick Carraway

Nick is Daisy's cousin and the man who help the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. He is also the Narrator of the novel but also he plays a character in the story.

 

Jordan Baker

                                            

Jordan is a professional golf player she represents the new type of woman in 20's as well the friend of Daisy's. She is sportive and also masculine woman and she has relationship with Nick during the story.

Tom Buhanan

Tom husban of Daisy's is a rich man who lives in luxury house. In this novel Tom is the '' bad boy'' and comes from an old social and immensely wealthy family. Tom has no moral problems with his mistress Myrtle Wilson.

Myrtle Wilson

Myrtle is George's Wilson wife as well as the mistress of Tom. She is in love with money and she would make anything about them. She is trying to discharged for her unseccessful wedding and to be like a ''dog'' with somenoe who has money.

 George Wilson

George is Myrtle's husban who is in love with her and he realized that Myrtle hving affair with a man. He has a gas stop and he killed Gatsby, thinking that was the man who killed his wife.

Trailers of the movie "The Great Gatsby"

This trailer it's of the movie in 1974 version of the great Gatsby directed by Jack Clayton.

     

This trailer is from the new version of great Gatsby that is going to play to the cinemas in May 2013! The director of this movie is the Baz Luhrmann.

THE GREAT GATSBY 

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The Great Gatsby it's written by F Scott Fitzgerald and the story takes place in 1922 during the Jazz Age in America, after the First World War. The book refers a lonely and mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who likes to organize parties in his large and luxury house, without being in attendance along with his guests. In the Long Island, next to Gatsby's house, moves a man named Nick who has a cousin named Daisy Bachannan. This rich woman and Jay Gatsby have been in love in the past and the story ends up in a disaster.

There have been a lots of novels of this version but all the novel represent the lifestyle in 1920's in United States. I studied the 1926 version and i learned about the characters and after that it was easy for me to choose my character of that book. I really enjoyed that book!