Throughout history, Americans would do anything to obtain more power and wealth. This leads people to use wicked tactics such as manipulation and seduction to achieve the goal for opulence, it expresses how greed and personal desire ruins the lives of many people. In “The Great Gatsby”, people that live in Long Island and New York City in the early 1920’s were divided into different classes based on wealth. The East Egg is where everyone who had been born into wealth resides, while the West Egg is where everyone who works for and earns their wealth lives. Daisy lives in the East Egg, she married Tom Buchannan to achieve her life-long dream and escape a life where she didn’t have to worry about being poor. Daisy can be defined as evil because
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She uses her sexuality to manipulate and destroy men. At one point she framed two young boys for attempted rape. She was toying with her Latin professor’s affections which ultimately led to his suicide. She also burned down her family home while her parents were trapped inside, killed them to live life the way she wants, taking all of her parent’s money in the process. Cathy, also recognizes under the alias of Kate from “East of Eden” is known to be a patient, seductive, manipulative monster. Daisy from “The Great Gatsby” is perceived by men such as Tom and Gatsby as a kind, beautiful, gentle human being, but soon finds out that she is greedy and uses men for economic gain. In “The Great Gatsby” and “East of Eden,” the main female characters, Cathy and Daisy can be portrayed as the root of evil in their respective stories, they have many similarities and differences between them that prove if one is worse than the other or if they are both the same kind of evil resided within two different …show more content…
In “The Great Gatsby,” when Daisy is dating Gatsby, Gatsby leaves
She uses her sexuality to manipulate and destroy men. At one point she framed two young boys for attempted rape. She was toying with her Latin professor’s affections which ultimately led to his suicide. She also burned down her family home while her parents were trapped inside, killed them to live life the way she wants, taking all of her parent’s money in the process. Cathy, also recognizes under the alias of Kate from “East of Eden” is known to be a patient, seductive, manipulative monster. Daisy from “The Great Gatsby” is perceived by men such as Tom and Gatsby as a kind, beautiful, gentle human being, but soon finds out that she is greedy and uses men for economic gain. In “The Great Gatsby” and “East of Eden,” the main female characters, Cathy and Daisy can be portrayed as the root of evil in their respective stories, they have many similarities and differences between them that prove if one is worse than the other or if they are both the same kind of evil resided within two different …show more content…
In “The Great Gatsby,” when Daisy is dating Gatsby, Gatsby leaves