Daisy Buchanan

plural Daisy Buchanans

1. A woman or girl perceived in an idealized and unrealistic way, especially by the males around her; a naive, careless and beautiful woman.

   Daisy Buchanan meets David Duke

   2008, Zoey Dean, Girls on Film, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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   What should have been a victory lap became an agony, not only because he came face-to-face with the tragic inevitability that Shelley would always remain the Daisy Buchanan of his misspent youth, but because he realized that the condition of his return relied on the tacit expectation that he conform to the debauched image he had abandoned when he left New York, an image that would seal him off hermetically into an intolerable, inert past.

   2015, Aidan Levy, Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed, Chicago Review Press, page 167

   "We need to decide." Claire spoke with the conviction of a veteran horse trader. And it dawned on me that the Daisy Buchanan of my youth was taking charge of her father's empire.

   2012, Norb Vonnegut, The Trust, St. Martin's Press, page 93

   Ellis focuses upon the spectrum opposite that of Vollmann: young, wealthy, careless, emotionally deficient Americans (the Tom and Daisy Buchanans of the late twentieth century).

   2015, Daniel Grassian, Hybrid Fictions: American Literature and Generation X, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, page 27