een in two ways by the reader. It can be seen in a sympathetic manner, where it is not Daisy's fault she has no direction, but it is the era that she lives in fault, as it has taught her nothing of value, causing her to suffer from an empty, meaningless existence rather than to make the most of it.
             However, it can be seen unsympathetically, where her lack of motivation and direction can only be blamed on herself, with her undereducated and spoilt childhood, her over indulgent lifestyle, and her idle attitude causing her to be directionless by her own decision. The 'American Dream' was also a dominant idea during the 1920's, with people wanting to go to America and live out the dream of making plenty of money for themselves and living a life of luxury and indulgence.
             Daisy is representative of one aspect of this 'American Dream' as her character is one that is living it out, with her rich, carefree and luxurious lifestyle. However, by showing Daisy as a character living out the American Dream, F. Scott Fitzgerald is representing that the American Dream is not necessarily the 'dream' people believed it to be. We can see during the novel that Daisy is not always happy with the life she leads, with her husband having an affair, and Daisy is by no means the perfect character herself, with her shallow attitude and directionless, careless and reckless lifestyle. F. Scott Fitzgerald is showing that the pursuit of wealth and personal happiness is causing people to become less concerned with the well being of others, and more interested in living out care-free lifestyles where their money will pay for their recklessness, which is leading to the destruction of society. Leland J Person sums up the way in which Daisy represents the American Dream by saying that she,
             'stands for the corruption of the American Dream'.
             Gatsby pursues Daisy as the essential part of his American Dream, and feels that he needs Daisy to be with him in order for h...