artist, Howard Chandler Christy, specialized in presenting a type of a beautiful
girl, the dream of any soldier, which seems to float before Gatsby (as Daisy, of
course), as he must have imagined her while he was in the war (Reed 28).
“Christy’s girl” seems to dream, revealing nothing of her persona but her
extraordinary beauty-and thus her seemingly shallowness becomes crowned by a
mysterious aura
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The Great Gatsby's Relation to and Importance as a Work of Art - Student Pulse - 0 views
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This is very interesting! I would like to see this paintings of "Christy's girl"....
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Howard C. Christy - Ohio History Central - A product of the Ohio Historical Society - 0 views
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Here is an image of a girl that was popular in the 1920s. Sometimes Daisy from The Great Gatsby can be compared to this image of a woman.
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The way Christy drew her, she was popular with the males because of her charm,
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"Christy girl," and Christy used her image in books, magazines, calendars, and even patriotic posters. Christy once stated that the "Christy girl" was "High-bred, aristocratic and dainty though not always silken-skirted; a woman with tremendous self-respect
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