{"id":177,"date":"2017-02-12T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T21:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=177"},"modified":"2017-02-12T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T21:17:54","slug":"daisys-wordsvoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/the-great-gatsby\/daisys-wordsvoice\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisy&#8217;s words\/voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even with Gatsby being a third time read for me, I still cannot get over how hyperbolic Daisy&#8217;s descriptions are. Nick himself seems almost embarrassed at how intoxicating he finds her voice. Her voice is &#8220;glowing and singing&#8221; even in mundane situations (14). Daisy&#8217;s description of Nick reminding her of &#8220;an absolute rose&#8221; also shows how Nick though being mesmerized, is still objective enough to see how ridiculous she can be. The security and pride in her words are products of coming from old money and never having to struggle to be accepted. I think how women were viewed in this era also plays a part in her way of talking because they were seen as still having to maintain a certain level of taste and happy demeanor. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with Gatsby being a third time read for me, I still cannot get over how hyperbolic Daisy&#8217;s descriptions are. Nick himself seems almost embarrassed at how intoxicating he finds her voice. Her voice is &#8220;glowing and singing&#8221; even in mundane situations (14). Daisy&#8217;s description of Nick reminding her of &#8220;an absolute rose&#8221; also shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-gatsby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}