Daisy is described as being beautiful. She is also rich and is the type of person who pretends to be fine no matter what is going on in her life, for example, Tom (her husband) is cheating on her and she knows about it because she goes inside to listen to his phone call and then they fight but she acts like everything is fine. She is also described as one of the rich people who has everything but thinks they have nothing. She tells Nick that she wants her daughter to be a fool because " 'that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool'"(17) because she knows that it is better to be ignorant (and not know that her husband is cheating) than be smart and be unliked by men. Tom is Daisy's husband and he is portrayed as a racist. He is also described as "a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking specimen"(12). Tom and Nick went to Yale together. Nick describes Jordan by saying " Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget"(9). He thinks that she is very beautiful and learns that she is a female golfer and that she is basically being set up with him by Daisy and Tom. Nick is not rich but his parents are. He also says "I'm inclined to reserve all judgments , a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores" (1). He does not judge people and is rather sarcastic.
So far I find the book rather boring but that's not to say that it won't pick up. The writing style is not something that I am used to so thus far I am not totally able to understand it, but I think I will be able to catch on. The color white has been introduced and is used to describe Jordan and Daisy as both light and beauty.
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