摘要

《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作之一。女主人公黛西是叙事者尼克的表妹，汤姆布坎南的妻子，盖茨比的情人。她白衣飘飘，妩媚动人，如同一个降落到凡间的天使。然而另一方面，她轻浮放荡、金钱至上、冷酷无情，如同恶魔一般。她是“美国梦”的象征，是爵士时代下“镀金女郎”的典型代表。本文旨在探索黛西的双重人物形象：外表美丽但内心邪恶。在天使与恶魔形象的鲜明对比基础上，进而分析社会因素对她道德沦丧的影响，指出她是金钱主宰的消费社会和父权制意识形态下的男性社会的受害者。在研究了黛西非道德的负面形象后，形成了文章的结论部分，尽管道德沦陷是她突出的人物特点，她的非道德是与金钱社会和男性社会息息相关的。因此，黛西值得我们的同情和理解。女性是爵士时代下社会环境和男性的牺牲品。

关键词：黛西，女性，负面形象，非道德，受害者，金钱社会

Abstract

The Great Gatsby is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s representative works. Daisy, the heroine, is the narrator Nick’s cousin, Tom Buchanan’s wife and Gatsby’s lover. She is always in white, enchanting and moving like a holy angel landing to the world. However, she is also frivolous, materialistic and callous, just like an evil. She is the symbol of American Dream and the typical delegate of Jazz Age and Gold-plated Girl. This dissertation aims to explore the dual image of Daisy—beautiful in appearance but damned in heart, and the social influence upon her moral degradation. She is a victim of the money-orientated and men-privileged society. Having made a detailed study on the causes of her immoral and negative images, the dissertation concludes that although immorality is dominant in her character, it is closely related to the money-orientated and men-dominated society. Thus, Daisy deserves sympathy and understanding. Female characters are victims of the society as well as of the men in the Jazz Age.

Key words: Daisy, female, negative images, immoral, victim, money-oriented society

1.    Introduction
1.1 Daisy’s background
Throughout The Great Gatsby, Daisy is almost described in fairytale language. She was born in a wealthy family in Louisville, the United States of southern Kentucky. The well-off family circumstance makes Daisy naïve and carefree. She looks forward to a beautiful love and is fond of the limelight. She possesses almost everything that other girls admire. The house she lives in amazed Gatsby and he regards it as the most beautiful house he has ever seen. She is by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She has a woman’s most important weapon: beauty. In general, physical appeal is easy to create an image of beauty, which is the reason why for Gatsby, originally belonging to a poorer background and a lower social class, Daisy is the symbol containing a promise of perfect love and ultimate happiness.