now Daisy killed his wife because she never owned up to it. Fitzgerald also show the corruption of the American Dream in how he portrays Daisy's lifestyle. She and her equally corrupt friend Jordan Baker sit around all day basking in their wealth, as shown in the scene where Nick first comes to the Buchanan household. He enters the house to see them just sitting there, staring into nothing. It becomes obvious that their everyday schedule mostly consists of this during the day, and drinking heavily at parties during the night. Fitzgerald makes it clear that something is wrong with this picture in the Nick's sarcasm and disillusionment.Nick's cynicism reveals the message of the novel: people like Daisy are leading America down the wrong path and destroying the American Dream and all things involved in that, mainly a sense of morals and a strong work ethic. Daisy exemplifies the worst qualities of human nature that Fitzgerald saw in his day. Her life revolves around sitting and doing nothing with all of her unnecessary wealth, all the while going to any extremes in order to gain more possessions. This greed corrupts not only her, but all of society in the same position as her....
