Something which I found interesting in the story was how Daisy dealt with Tom and Gatsby in the climax of the story. Gatsby encourages Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him, but she cannot do it. She says that she did love him, but she loves Gatsby now. She says this, but it seems possible she doesn’t love either of them. Gatsby is not really satisfied and he wants Daisy as his.
Daisy is portrayed as a foolish, shallow character, who married Tom for the wealth. It is clear that most of the characters are absorbed in their wealth and Daisy seems to value that lifestyle very much. I don’t believe Daisy was in love with Tom or Gatsby. I think that she was in love with the status. Tom acted as a protection for her and allowed her to be married to a wealthy man with a high status and background. The more you look at each character, you start to realize it’s possible none of them were really in love. Gatsby, first off, was not in love with Daisy. He was in love with the past and the idealized version of life with her. Tom didn’t really love Daisy, he went to Myrtle because he wasn’t really satisfied with his wife, but he wanted to have a high status life with a stable wife. Tom didn’t really love Myrtle either, it was just an affair. Daisy didn’t love Tom or Gatsby, just the wealth, and the newness of Gatsby's money and their past love. Lastly, Nick probably wasn’t in love with Jordan either. He seemed to genuinely like her, but it wasn’t enough to cause him to pursue a relationship any further.
The Great Gatsby represented this American Dream, with love and wealth at the core. Both turn out to be very different at the end of the story. Many were in search of wealth and love, and they grasped onto what met those needs, even if it wasn’t genuine.
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