Daisy
It's the smaller details of Daisy that make her complicated

Flapper Girl (Aka.Garçonne)

Waist dropped to the hipline

Hems of skirts started to rise: right below the knee

V-shaped dresses on the front and on the back

Hair got shorter: flappers loved the bob cut or the even shorter Eton crop

Dark, bee stung lips and heavy eye make-up

Ivory skin, dramatic eyebrows and blushed cheeks

Shoes that have a tap dance look: round noses and a medium heel. E.g. Mary Jane shoes

Hats, headpieces or headbands on top of short, shiny hair

Rolled down stockings just below the knee. This way, people can see some flesh when you dance

1. "Golden Girl"
2. "A breathless warmth flowed from her, a promise that there was no one else in the world she so wanted to see"

She is seen as the woman that is desired by men and by women, in terms of wanting to be her

Subtopic

Daisy attends Gatsby’s lavish party in a bejeweled dress. Dancing with him during the evening, she finds out that the party was set for her. Gatsby asks her how the party is and she responds with “perfect”

Increasingly affordable due to lower costs and higher wages

There was a variety of makes such as the Model T Ford, Model A Ford, Rolls Royce, or Daisy's "little white roadster"

With changes happening in the car industry, other industries also began to emerge or expand, such as gas stations, motels, diners, etc

The boom of the car industry also allowed for new possibilities such as commuting to work or going to faraway places. At the same time, problems such as traffic jams and accidents were also beginning to be experienced

Mr. Gatsby explains how the accident happened: "Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back."

After coming back from France, Mr. Gatsby went back to "the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in [Daisy's] white car."

The "Dance age"

“There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden; old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other torturously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners - and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the tarps."(pg.46)

"A pair of stage twins, who turned out to be the girls in yellow, did a baby act in costume”(pg.46)

“Daisy and Gatsby danced. I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot - I had never seen him dance before.”(pg.105)

Dances such as the Charleston, the Black Bottom, the Peabody, the Turkey Trot, and more, were extremely popular!

Singing/Instruments

Musicians usually presented in bands of 8-12 piece bands.

“The boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden” (pg. 49)

“ ‘Ladies and gentlemen,’ he cried. ‘At the request of Mr.Gatsby wer are giong to play for you Mr.Vladimir Tostoff’s latest work… Jazz History of the World.”(pg.49)

“By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.” (pg. 40)

Some music was still very romantic and dramatic.

“In the music-room… Klipspringer had played The Love Nest.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgm6xrdLiqg ← actual song. <- the actual song called 'The Love Nest'.

“Three O’Clock in the Morning, a neat, sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door.”(pg. 108)

“Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.” (pg. 108)

"A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz." (pg.46)

Chicago is the main hub for Jazz music

Tom and Daisy were socially kicked out of Chicago for some reason not provided to the audience.

Materialism and Consumption in the novel demonstrates
how the rich believed that money CAN buy you happiness

Gatsby goes and earns money in hopes that
he will be able to impress Daisy enough for her
to want to be with him again

Gatsby tours Daisy around his house and she
is impressed by the extravagance.
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Tom gives Daisy pearls before their wedding to
show his love for her

Daisy wants to giver her pearls back to Tom
right before the wedding because she doesn't
want to get married

Daisy, and many other wealthy women living in the 1920's
were not employed

They had no need to become more rich than they
already were

This caused them to have no purpose during the day
and they didn't know what to do with themselves

Emotions are not as important as how you look and what
people think of you

Daisy is not permitted to marry Gatsby due to
him not being wealthy enough and having a
lower social status

Nobody including Daisy showed up to Gatsby's funeral
because they were only actually interested in his wealth
and extravagant parties