This is America
America is known for its iconic “American Dream” but knowing when one has achieved the American Dream is a different story. Success in America is not measured by personal happiness or by growth but instead by material wealth. When people see someone as “successful,” the person may have a big house or nice cars which leads to the perception of success and success is the goal of the American Dream. Material wealth is America. Gatsby would be considered nothing to others without his material wealth. When Daisy meets Gatsby for the first time in years and takes a tour of his house, she “bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily….’It makes me sad because I've never seen such— beautiful shirts before’” (92). Daisy crying “stormily” over just the look of the shirts is not the real reason for her tears. She cries because of how the shirts show Gatsby’s immense material wealth and she falls back in love with him due to his new money. This same type of material attraction