The phrase “appearances can be deceiving” is constantly used in many works of literature as a way to teach a sense of caution to the audience. F. Scott Fitzgerald educates that moral with Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby, a story filled with cheaters and liars. The novel is in Nick Carraway's point of view that explores the conflicts of greed and power in 1920s New York, with Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan as the center of attention. The main focus is Mrs. Buchanan, a housewife living in a loveless marriage, but constantly uses her sweet appearance to get things to move in her advantage. Nick’s uses his point of view to show how Daisy’s true character contrasts with her appearance.
Everyone in the novel describes Mrs. Buchanan as this gorgeous
“The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air... The horses, needless to say, were not mentioned again” (Fitzgerald 1). Mrs. Buchanan is fully aware of her husband's adultery, yet she never confronts him about it and allows him to continue, which makes the readers begin to question her as a person. “‘Oh, you want too much!’" she cried to Gatsby. “‘I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.’" She began to sob helplessly. “‘I did love him once – but I loved you too’” (Fitzgerald 7). Daisy never states her love for Gatsby and returns to Tom’s embrace after seeing Jay for many days, which shows how little cares for other people’s feelings. “I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment but he was already too far away and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower” (Fitzgerald 9). Daisy accidentally kills Myrtle during a hit-and-run but never admits to her mistakes, lets Gatsby take all the blame, and runs away without even visiting Jay’s funeral, fully shattering the reader's perspective of