Mulligan embodies the "beautiful little fool" Fitzgerald wrote about. Her Daisy is fragile, golden, and deeply trapped by her own social status, making her eventual betrayal of Gatsby feel more like a tragic inevitability than pure malice.
One of the most defining and debated elements of the 2013 film was its soundtrack, executive produced by Jay-Z. The Great Gatsby -2013-
. This was intended to mirror how "shocking" and new jazz felt in the 1920s. The Framing Device The Great Gatsby -2013-