Gatsby highlights this concept when he says: “Daisy is money”. She is the parallel that Fitzgerald sets up to demonstrate that the pursuit of money is inevitable and fails. Before Gatsby fell in love with her limitless possibilities and defined himself by her, he could have had the world. But instead he dedicated his life to making it his own. His desire for Daisy is an unhealthy obsession that drives everything Gatsby does. Ostentatious parties were thrown in the hope that she would attend. Gatsby buys a huge house and fills it with pretentious things to solicit the attention of what he wants most. The irony is that all of this is a failure. When Daisy finally goes to one of Gatsby's parties, she despises everything about it. No matter what she does, Daisy is unattainable. Nothing is ever enough because Gatsby can never be satisfied. Fitzgerald demonstrates that the blind pursuit of perfection and money, as it was for some people in the 1920s, is doomed to fail. When Nick first sees Gatsby, he is staring wistfully at a money-colored light in the distance. This is the light on Daisy's dock. It's right across the lake that separates East Egg and West Egg from each other. It seems so close but at the same time it can never be