The Great Gatsby was centered around the ideals of the American Dream. And you might ask, what essentially is the American Dream? According to Suite 101, " The American Dream is all about finding a life less ordinary and reaching the top." It sounds pretty amazing, right? Wrong. This idea of life seems glamorous and liberating, but it reality it is centered around social status, materialistic desires and shameless wealth. "Daisy Buchanan is fickle and materialistic, but also attractive and desirable. She is the personified version of the American Dream," stated so elegantly by Suite 101. In this time era, everyone wanted to achieve the American Dream. And in reality, who wouldn't?
    Gatsby embodies all men striving for this "dream." Everyone on this novel seems to have their own idea of "The American Dream" they want to achieve. Daisy is Gatsby's. James Gatz did not grow up in the best living conditions and ultimately he is trying to create a better life for himself, not only so he can have wealth, but also so that he can have Daisy. Daisy also embodies everything that is wrong with the American Dream. Wealth and materialistic things can not create a lifetime of happiness. This is what Fitzgerald is trying to exploit about the American Dream. The American Dream should embody creating a better life for oneself, but not to the extent that it consumes your thinking every sleeping and waking minute. Gatsby does not see Daisy for who she really is because he is truly enamored by her charismatic character. He is blinded by love and therefore can not find any faults within her. Gatsby symbolizes the ignorance of the American people for not realizing the mindset the American Dream was causing on the entire country.
    Fitzgerald was really trying to expose the realities of what the American Dream truly was. America was founded on hard work and moral ethics and the American Dream is the exact opposite and exploits these views. It is trading these two qualities for wealth and the good life.

       Are you all ready for the secret we have been waiting for? The one for Nick from Gatsby?! Well here it is: "Gatsby bought that house so Daisy would be just across the bay. He wants to know," continued Jordan, "if you'll invite Daisy over to your house some afternoon and then let him come over" (80). Gatsby is on love with Daisy. It is plain and simple. Oh, the issues this is going to cause. It makes me wonder the kind of man that Gatsby is, considering he has waited to long for this encounter with Daisy. Granted, he had to time it just right considering that she is married and has a child. But come on, why wait so long?
    Then it dawned on me, well does Daisy love Gatsby? She very well could. She very well could not. Through all of this it is apparent that Daisy loves Gatsby just as much as he loves her and even on her own wedding day, Daisy could think of nothing but James Gatz, "Found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress--and as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand a letter in the other." Daisy said, "Here, deares'." She groped around in a waste basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. "Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mine. Say: 'Daisy's change' her mind!' "(77) The feelings are mutual here, obviously. We have already learned why Daisy picked Tom, because he had money and could supply her with a lifetime of fulfillment, but did she truly love him? Could she possess the same feelings for Tom as she did for Gatsby? The answer is yes and no, "I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance. "Not at Kapiolani?" demanded Tom suddenly. "No." "Oh, you want too much!" She cried to Gatsby. "I love you now--isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once--but I loved you too" (133). Hence the title of the post, Semi Love Triangle, Tom and Gatsby both are in love with Daisy.