Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan is Nick's cousin and Toms wife. She lives with the rich old-money population of New York on East Egg. From Nick's first visit, Daisy is associated with otherworldliness. For example, the first image we have of Daisy in Chapter One is as one of a pair of women, lying on a couch and surrounded by fluttering, moving material - from the curtains to their white dresses, nothing is safe from the breeze blowing through the room. This sense of constancy in a sea of movement - indicated by her being sat on “the only completely stationary object in the room… an enormous couch” - and the hints of purity or innocence attached to her - her white dress, “buoyed up” as though “though they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house”, like an angel or
She speaks in a “low, thrilling voice”, a voice that holds an “excitement” that is “difficult to forget”: “a singing compulsion, a whispered ‘Listen’, a promise that she had done gay, exciting things a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”
Her gayness and complete and utter satisfaction poetically described at the start of their encounter is completely wiped out by the end of the night though the way Daisy describes herself to Nick on the porch outside her house: “Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything.” Although we are almost certain that Daisy is not always cynical and more disillusioned than she thinks she is. we are uncertain on who she actually is and where her place