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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe topic talks about Daisy?s efforts to maintain her pride and the reasons
of her failure to maintain her pride in Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby. In relation to
this New York, where Daisy lives exactly in 1920 had become a place where
parties were often alive, fashion was revealing, cars were flashy. At that time
people were very obsessive and greedy to pursue material wealth. Thus, people
often associate material wealth and social status as the source of their pride.
Therefore, I want to discuss what Daisy Buchanan?s efforts to maintain her pride
and why she fails to maintain her pride. Through the statement of the problem
above, I want to find out that Daisy Buchanan?s efforts to maintain her pride, and
the reasons of her failure to maintain her pride. Here, I employ literary approach
namely characterization to understand Daisy?s character traits, their saying, and
reaction toward everything happens to them. I also use conflict to explore some
conflicts around Daisy?s family. To support the analysis, I use some supporting
concepts, they are marriage and material wealth, and pride. Marriage and material
wealth is used to show that Daisy uses her marriage to achieve material wealth
and social status to maintain her pride, whereas, pride is used to analyze that
Daisy fails to fulfill her pride through material wealth and social status because
she has misconceived the concept of pride. In my analysis, I find that Daisy as an
excessive materialistic young lady has neglected poor Jay Gatsby and married rich
Tom Buchanan to maintain her pride. As a young lady who is born from a wealthy
family, she considers that living with poor man will lead her in a poor condition,
and she considers that she will loose her pride if she marries a poor guy. On the
other hand, she thinks that Tom?s material wealth will makes her feels worthy,
and she will be highly respected if she marries Tom. At last, she realizes that she
needs more than money and social status to maintain her pride. She also needs
respect from people around her. As the conclusion, it is seen that Daisy?s life has
been controlled by the authority of money, which finally makes her unhappy.