Happiness In The Great Gatsby And The Crucible By Arthur Miller

The pride that John Proctor makes his main priority forces him to give up his own life rather than confess and live for his family. Proctor has come to the court and confessed of his affair to the court and is attempting to get Danforth to his side: “ I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name” (Miller 111). This figurative language that Miller puts into the text gives the idea that John has just sacrificed his personal pride and he is completely aware of it. The bell he exclaims is made of his honor shows the struggle for Proctor to admit his sins and that by coming out with the truth and getting the attention of the townspeople, as a bell does, he has made his own personal doom . John although sacrificing his pride is still expecting people to respect his reputation and forgive him for his sins. After John Proctor has been asked why he will not just post his confession and be

By implying that Gatsby would have to steal a ring for Daisy, Tom displays his view that Gatsby is significantly lower than himself. In the end, Daisy chooses to stay with Tom and through assembling the pieces that Fitzgerald provided his readers with, we can infer that it was largely due to Tom’s ‘top of the pyramid’ social status. While both Gatsby and Tom were very wealthy, Tom’s money was the more fashionable ‘old money’ and Gatsby’s was ‘new money’. Even more, Gatsby’s money was acquired through less than respectable ways. Tom informs us “’I picked [Gatsby] for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong’” (133). Instead of joining Gatsby, with whom she would possibly be happier with, Daisy decides to stay with Tom and continue to reside at the top of the social pyramid.

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Gatsby has everything that he could wish for, except of love. Gatsby tried everything he could to achieve Daisy, but failed to do so. Gatsby always thought that Daisy actually loved him and that he was very close to achieving her. One time Gatsby showed Daisy all of his luxuries in the house. Daisy was impressed by how rich and wealthy Gatsby has become as time passed. Daisy says “never seen so many shirts like these” (87). This quote shows how Daisy likes materialistic things. Gatsby worked hard on his dream unlike Tom. Tom Buchanan who is the husband of Daisy has no purpose and goal in his life except his affair with Myrtle. He never really loved Daisy. On the other hand when Gatsby showed all of his English shirts Daisy begins to cry and they plan their future plans of meeting each other. We can see how Daisy is attracted to Gatsby simply because of his wealth. She loves Gatsby but she loves his money more then she actually loves him. This goes to show how people’s mentality worked in the 1920’s. Daisy, Gatsby, and all other characters live a very superficial life. Gatsby wants to achieve Daisy by the means of fortune and how Daisy is attracted to Gatsby because of his wealth.

It’s a common misconception that money is equal to happiness, and Daisy is a sad, bored woman, afraid of the future. She is selfish and self centered, caring so much for the wealth that she believes will make her happy that in Chapter 7 her voice is said to be “full of money” (pg #). All the worse, when she kills Myrtle, she feels no remorse whatsoever, as she is incapable of caring for anyone but herself. Gatsby cannot see any of her bad qualities. He simply sees a beautiful young woman that he thinks he deserves. In chapter 8, Nick says that “It excited [Gatsby], too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes.”(pg#). Gatsby is blinded by his desire for Daisy, fueled by the wants of other men, that he sees nothing bad about her. Daisy loved Tom and Gatsby equally and for the same reason: Their wealth. With Gatsby dead Daisy returns to Tom not even shaken by his death, and just as nick says they would do, they retreat from the chaos they cause into their money when they move away.

All daisy wants in life is to keep her social status and power, not to use it but to keep it and even though Tom can provide that she finds an old love in Gatsby that she feels comfortable having now, not because she has him or found him but because he has money now. It all revolves around money for her “Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. ‘They're such beautiful shirts’... ‘It makes me sad because i've never seen such-such beautiful shirts” As Daisy cries over these shirts it's really one of the biggest moments where it shows how wildly she care about material objects, how much it truly means to her to have the finest of things and no less. Because all Daisy really cares about is her wealth she doesn't care how she gets it, no matter if once again Nick is in an awkward situation or that she might not realy love the man who has done everything in his life leading up to that moment for her, she just cares that it's all

Proctor ultimately confesses his sins to the court in an attempt to save his wife but alas, his confession comes too late and he is not even able to save himself. When Abby speaks of leaving the court after Proctor successfully accuses her of witchcraft, he is floored and insists that he "made a bell of [his] honor" and ran "doom of [his] good name" (1207). Proctor cannot believe how quickly Abby can take control of the court and instantly demands Danforth's attention to his proposals that declare his wife innocent. Realizing that it is more important to save wife's life than to keep his good reputation, Proctor is able to successfully entrust his evidence to the court in an attempt to free his wife. Proctor is willing to forfeit his life's achievements in order to protect his wife which shows how he his dominating pride is not invincible. Unaware that Proctor confessed his sin of adultery, Elizabeth leaves the court without presenting the evidence that she witnessed John cheating on her with Abby. As Elizabeth begins to leave the courtroom, Proctor shouts "Elizabeth, I have confessed it!" (1208). When Proctor finally decides to confess his adultery to the court, it is too late. Since Elizabeth did not know wether or not she should confess to the court, she chooses to try and save her husbands reputation by not directly accusing Proctor of adultery. Proctor's pride oppresses him from admitting the truth for too long, and as a result, he hangs on account of witchcraft. Proctors flamboyant arrogance ultimately brings him to ruin in the

Daisy, who is married to Tom, once fell in love with Jay Gatsby, but Gatsby did not have money, so she married Tom. On Pg. 130 Gatsby says, “ She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.” Even though Daisy had once loved Gatsby she gave it all up for money. She believes the lie that this is the best way to live life. On Pg. 17 when Nick asks her about her little girl she responds with, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” Daisy never loved Gatsby the way that Gatsby loved her. If she did, she wouldn’t have left him for Tom. She wouldn’t have let money control her and she would have stayed by his side through thick and thin, like I am convinced Gatsby would have.

Daisy stuck with Tom through years of his cheating, and when Nick invited her and Gatsby over so they could meet again, she had another chance. Gatsby did everything he could to become rich and to find Daisy. This meant that Daisy had everything she could have wanted. She had a man who loved her, who was wealthy, and all she had to do was end her marriage with Tom. What Gatsby had was new money, and Tom had old money. “What Daisy requires is not only money but old money. Old money is better than new, not because it can somehow buy more or because they will be more of it, but because it has fashioned the tastes, values, attitudes, matters, and intellects others possessors.”(Lathbury 59). Something about the old money was more valuable and appealing to Daisy, so she gave up Gatsby to be with Tom.

(143). He got into an illegal business with Wolfshiem just to earn money really fast so when Daisy sees him, she will see that he’s rich and not penniless he also lied about how he stumble upon his money. However, Gatsby doesn’t know that he is just wasting his time on Daisy because she idolized Tom even after all the terrible things that he did to her, “‘Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,’ she admitted in a pitiful voice” (142). Even though Gatsby showed Daisy how wealthy he was she was swooned over his luxurious cars and other expensive things that Gatsby had , but this did not last for awhile as at the end she still ended up choosing Tom over

This shows that Daisy is a selfish human who claims to care for Gatsby, but clearly doesn’t when she goes back to her roots, Tom. Daisy and Gatsby were together beforehand, but Gatsby ended up going into the war hoping Daisy would wait for him but she didn’t. So eventually she met Tom, and on their wedding day she was found in her room, “She had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other”(Fitzgerald 76). The letter she received was from Gatsby, and so Daisy thought that she would be making a mistake by marrying Tom, even though at the time she was in love with him. This reveals that if Daisy was loyal in relationships, then nothing bad would have happened to Gatsby, he would not have been shot. If she and Gatsby were still together after the war then Tom would not even be in the equation, neither would Myrtle, or the affair between Daisy and Gatsby. All would have been peaceful. Most of the reasons that Daisy did not stay or be loyal to Gatsby is because he is New Money. The title New Money didn’t have a good ring to people's ears, as it made people believe that they were unsophisticated and uneducated humans beings. You could only be from East Egg and have Old Money to be

Now that he has Daisy, money no longer was a priority for him. Showing how money is idolized by humans but in reality it is not needed for us to achieve happiness. Gatsby, built up such a name and networth for himself because he thought having those would make it seem like his dream was achieved, but he really just wanted Daisy’s love. Since, he can't have her love he had just spent his entire life working towards what he was told was his dream but not achieving

The school of thought believes that individuals that are ambitious can gain happiness in the country by pursuing their dreams since there is a conducive environment. The Great Gatsby and Wolf of Wall Street depict a different view, and this paper seeks to know whether people follow certain paths to happiness.

He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions” (149). Gatsby felt that Daisy’s glamour and wealth must have made her attractive to other men, “it increased her value in his eyes” and held more appeal than her love for him. However, at the same time, Daisy 's desires are also driven by wealth, but she is not attracted to the new money that Gatsby has. Tom’s old money is much more appealing to Daisy. The two men fight over Daisy and in the end she chooses Tom because of his historic wealth.

Gatsby remembers Daisy as the pretty girl from North Dakota he fell in love with when he was in the military. He soon sees that she is different, although he denies it, even to himself. In order for Daisy to have a relationship with Gatsby, when they first meet he lies and says his parents are actually wealthy. This is the first example of how society dictates Daisy’s life. Because of her social status, Daisy must marry a rich man, preferably from old money, according to society. When Gatsby leaves, Daisy promises that she will wait for him, yet she instead marries Tom Buchanan, an extremely wealthy man who her parents approve of. Even when Tom cheats on Daisy, and she is fully aware of it, she refuses to leave him. She loves her status and money so much she will not give it up even at the expense of her happiness.