Behind every picture perfect dream there has always and will always be corruption. Many people have been known to waste away throughout their life in the pursuit of this "American Dream" to only realize that it has changed them due to its extreme corruption. Throughout his greatly written novel, Fitzgerald pits his characters against each other to show the extremes that anyone will go to for their own personal gains. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses the literary technique of characterization to show the corruption of the American Dream.
             Daisy Buchanan strived to become a woman who had everything a girl of her time could ever want. She achieved this because she has the looks, the social status, and more money then she knows what to do with yet she is still unhappy. She knows of the struggles that she went through as a woman. So much as to have cried when she gave birth to her daughter and said "...and I hope she'll be a fool---that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."(21) After such a strive for material possessions it can be said that the things she already has are the things that she has wanted her whole life, still do not please her. Daisy was under the impression that she would obtain this all through her love, Gatsby. Daisy and Jay Gatsby had a past relationship, which experienced a period of separation after Gatsby left for war. Daisy, eager to find her rich husband and achieve the lifestyle she so desired, got tired of waiting for Gatsby and married Tom Buchanan. To Daisy, money seemed more important then actually experiencing true love and happiness. She was set on the path of wanting an "ideal life" from a young age and the corruption and even possibility of this "ideal life" not even existing turned Daisy into a stuck up and very awful woman. Even to have said once "Sophisticated---God I'm sophisticated!" (22)...