I have started reading Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. However, I did not get far enough in to write a blog post about it. I chose to start reading this novel because I love Fitzgerald's writing style and what he chooses to write about. I first fell in love with him in The Great Gatsby. Although I really liked the character of Gatsby I still enjoyed the end. I thought that was the way the novel needed to end. I think that Gatsby had already died inside when he realized the Daisy was never going to leave her husband for him. While I was sad that that was the way he had to die I understand why Fitzgerald wrote it this way.
I think that Daisy was meant to represent everything that was wrong with the 1920s. She chose material goods for what was morally right. She had so much that she did not know what to do with it. I do think that she was in love with Gatsby, but I also think that she used him for her own pleasure and when it came time for her to commit she choked. She decided to stay with her husband and all his money and let Gatsby take the blame for killing Myrtle. This is the second time she let down Gatsby. The first being that she said she would wait for Gatsby to come back from the war. She instead married Tom who was from a well off family. She and Tom did not even attend Gatsby's funeral they left. I love the way Nick characterizes her, as a careless person who messes things up the hides behind her money.
I am sorry for ranting about Daisy. I am sure there are good things about her as well, I just do not see them. I have to say that this is my favorite novel I have read for school.
