The Ladies Of Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was persued by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy has a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful women of high society, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at Tom's constant infidelity.

Jordan Baker - Daisy’s friend, a woman that Nick becomes romantically involved during the summer. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.

Myrtle Wilson - Tom’s lover, whose husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself has a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation. Unfortunately for her, she chooses Tom, who treats her as a mere object of his desire.