In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, each character shows their true colors as the novel progresses. Jay Gatsby, who at first glance appears to be a confident and wealthy man, turns out to be a conscious fraudster who made his entire fortune through bootlegging alcohol. Nick, the narrator of the story, states that he was raised not to judge others. Throughout the novel, he cynically judges each character and gives readers the impression that each character is miserable. However, the greatest fraud in the novel is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy, who is introduced to readers while wearing a white dress in her lavish home, white symbolizing purity and innocence, turns out to be anything but. The soft-spoken, mild-mannered young woman Nick first meets turns out to be anything but elegant. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald never explicitly portrays Daisy as a pathetic character, but subtle clues in the work indicate that Daisy ultimately reveals herself as a desperate and confused character. This article will attempt to analyze the deception of Daisy Buchanan's character in The Great Gatsby. Upon his first meeting with his cousin Daisy, Nick explains to the reader: “I looked at my cousin, who had begun to ask me questions in a low voice. , exciting voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech were an arrangement of notes that will never be played again” (Fitzgerald 9). Based on Daisy's description, Nick describes her as a charming and exciting woman. Richard Lehan's article "Carless People: Daisy Fay" describes her charm "so that to yearn for her is to frolic like God through the skies, to live as pure potential." Yet a reader reading between the lines... middle of paper...... never to see it again. Perhaps the most heartbreaking action Daisy takes against Gatsby is his absence from his funeral. This reveals her true character and proves that she is simply an ignorant and confused woman who never really knew what true love was. Throughout The Great Gatsby, almost every character is not who they seem. Daisy Buchanan, however, is truly a deceptive character because of the way Fitzgerald develops her. While Fitzgerald intentionally exposes Gatsby as a fake, the way he exposes Daisy as a fraud is much more subtle. Daisy is supposed to appear as a graceful woman who wears elegant clothes and lives in a beautiful house, when in reality she is a selfish and ignorant girl. Fitzgerald does a spectacular job of revealing Daisy for the character she truly is in a subtle way, but in a way that still expresses her true nature..