"She had caught a cold, and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever, and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and reserves of the freshness of many clothes, and of daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud about the hot struggles of the poor." pg 100
It seems that Gatsby fell in love with Daisy because of the way she lived and how she was untouched by all things ugly.. aka poverty. This metaphor about Daisy gleaming like silver exemplifies how Gatsby sees Daisy, as someone pure. This is funny because she has really gone through a lot in her life so one would think she is wizened by her experiences. Yet at the end of the story and throughout I feel as though she is a teenager. She is in a fantasy world. How is she so untouched that she still seems naive and not in anyway tarnished by hardship. She faces a husband who is unfaithful and had a baby. Although this child is mentioned and describe twice throughout the course of the story. It seems that her money is what saved Daisy from all things that could make her life in anyway uncomfortable to painful.
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