Daisy Buchanan is an attractive and effervescent, if shallow and self-absorbed, young woman, identified as a flapper. She is Nick Carraway's second cousin, once removed; and the wife of Tom Buchanan. Daisy is believed to have been inspired by J. Scott Fitzgerald's own youthful romances with Ginevra King. Daisy once had a romantic relationship with Jay Gatsby, before she married Tom. Her choice between Gatsby and Tom is one of the central conflicts in the novel. [courtesy of Wikipedia]