The American dream. Everyone's heard about it and everyone had an idea, no matter how small, of what it was. In the book The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeralt painted a perfect picture of the American Dream. He used Gatsby and a lost love to show how the American dream is dwindling away.
             In the book Fitzgeralt uses Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy and their lives to show that the so-called perfect life of an upper class American is not as perfect as it is made out to be. Gatsby, before he left for the war loved Daisy, and she loved him too, but she was from an upper class family and he had nothing so therefore they were told it would never work and Gatsby went off to war. While Gatsby was at war Daisy married Tom, the "perfect" guy. He had money, lots of money, and was from an upper class family as well. Even though Tom was that the American Dream said was the perfect husband and person, he is not. Tom cheats on Daisy, and does not care that she knows. He hits her, and he does not care at all for their baby girl. He does not care about his life that he has made. He cares about only about his image and doing what he wants, not caring at all about Daisy. Only when Daisy starts to waver in her undying affection toward him does he care, because that does not go with how he wants their lives.
             Daisy, on the other hand, did stay true to her husband. She stayed with him even though she knew that he was cheating on her. She acted like she didn't not know anything about his other girl, and let him go away with her without ever questioning him. Daisy continued to pretend that she's happy with Tom, even though all those who see her could tell that she's was not happy. In their eyes though Daisy was living the "perfect life" with the "perfect guy", so most could not understand why she is unhappy. But, they do not know that he hit her and cheated on her. The way that Fitzgeralt talked about Daisy and their marriage...