Daisy Fay Buchanan is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.

Raised in luxury in Louisville, Kentucky, during the Jim Crow period, Daisy entertains many suitors from her privileged social class. In 1917, she enters into a month-long relationship with impoverished doughboy Jay Gatsby that ends with them promising to marry each other. While Gatsby serves in World War I, Daisy marries the wealthy polo player Thomas "Tom" Buchanan. The couple moves to East Egg, an "old money" enclave on Long Island, where they reside in a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking Manhasset Bay.

After her second cousin, once removed, Nick Carraway arrives at the neighboring nouveau riche town of West Egg on Long Island, he encounters Gatsby who has become a millionaire and wishes to reunite with Daisy. Gatsby throws extravagant soirées at his mansion, hoping she might attend. Nick arranges a private conversation between Daisy and Jay at his cottage in West Egg. The two meet for the first time in five years and begin an affair.

Later at the Buchanan residence, Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby—as well as her friends Nick and Jordan Baker—decide to visit the 20-story Plaza Hotel, a château-like edifice in New York City with an architectural style inspired by the French Renaissance. Tom embarks in Gatsby's yellow Rolls-Royce with Jordan and Nick, while Daisy and Gatsby drive alone in Tom's blue coupé. After reaching the hotel, Tom and Gatsby have a confrontation regarding Daisy's infidelity. Though Gatsby insists that Daisy never loved Tom, Daisy admits that she loved both Tom and Gatsby. The confrontation ends with Daisy leaving with Gatsby in his yellow car, while Tom departs with Nick and Jordan.
Having previously seen Tom driving Gatsby's yellow car through the "valley of ashes", a sprawling refuse dump, Tom's mistress, Myrtle Wilson, sees it approach that evening on its way back to East Egg. Presuming it is driven by Tom, she runs in front of it in hopes of reconciling with him. Daisy runs her over. Gatsby stops the car by applying the emergency brake and then takes over driving from Daisy, fleeing the scene of the accident.

Gatsby assures Daisy that he will take the blame for Myrtle's death. Tom informs Myrtle's husband, George Wilson, that Gatsby killed Myrtle. A distraught George travels to Gatsby's mansion in West Egg and shoots Gatsby dead before turning the weapon on himself. After Gatsby's murder, Daisy, Tom, and their daughter depart East Egg, leaving no forwarding address.

*The Great Gatsby (1925)

*The Great Gatsby (1926) (lost film)

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Buchanan Wikipedia]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/daisy-buchanan/4005-90075/issues-cover/ ComicVine]

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