My Character of choice. . .

Out of the main characters from the novel, instead of choosing Jay Gatsby which I thought would of been an easy choice, I have decided to do my character analysis on Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick's cousin and the object of Gatsby's love. As a young debutante in Louisville, Daisy was extremely popular among the military officers stationed near her home, including Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to daisy, claiming to be from a wealthy family in order to convince her that he was worthy of her. Eventually, Gatsby won Daisy's heart, and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but in 1919 chose instead to Marry 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. 

As we are required to produce 3 final images of the change of character throughout out book of choice, I thought Daisy would be a good choice as she is quite a key role, throughout the story she is behind the scenes of most of the story lines. By watching the 1974 adaptation, directed by Jack Clayton, Daisy was played by Mia Farrow and by listening to the audio book, from my understanding I think she played the role well. 

From looking at different descriptions of Daisy online, by watching the 1974 adaptation and the listening to the audio book, I think the character of Daisy is quite misleading at first as she seems to have many different personalities. As the story progresses, I got the impression that despite her beauty and charm, Daisy is merely a shallow, selfish and in fact, hurtful woman. Gatsby loves her, or at least the idea of her with such vitality and determination that readers would like, in many senses, to see her be worthy of his devotion. Although Fitzgerald carefully builds Daisy's character with associations of light, purity and innocence, when all is said and done, she is the opposite from what she presents herself to be.

This is the second official movie trailer for The Great Gatsby 

I prefer this movie trailer when it comes to my character as I feel with this trailer unlike the first one, you get more of an understand of the drama around Gatsby and how is fake, made-up life comes and back fires. I think with this trailer as well, you can really see how stunning this film is going to be, with todays modern technology and amazing hair and make-up artists, I think visually this is going to be a stunning film and I can not wait to see it!