When Gatsby tells Daisy that her voice is “full of money,” he’s not merely complimenting her; he’s uttering the truth of what she represents. That’s perhaps the most beautiful line in The Great Gatsby, and it encapsulates the whole dilemma of the book between love and money. Daisy’s voice is beautiful, singing, and lovely. It attracts, not so much because of anything she is saying, but because of what she has: money, security, and popularity. Her voice to Gatsby is the life he has always longed for, the life he has constructed everything to obtain. Fitzgerald creates voice and class. Daisy’s voice proclaims her breeding, privilege, and irresponsibility. She is talking from a vantage point of entitlement where charm is substituted for responsibility. Her actions lead most directly to Myrtle’s death but she is not touched. Her voice conflates with reality, selfishness becoming elegance. This is a sentence that takes Gatsby’s tragedy to a whole new level. He’s not so much in love with Daisy as he is in love with mythologized wealth. Her voice isn’t so much a personal characteristic so much as it is a siren call of the object of his desire. No coincidence his dream is killed shortly after he’s heard the actual woman behind the bluster. Fitzgerald uses Daisy’s voice as a great metaphor: beautiful, shimmering, and ultimately vacant. Like the American Dream itself, it holds out more than it can ever possibly give.