The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Since the dawn of time money has ruled the world. Money has also divided the world into social classes. You have your upper class, your middle class and lastly you have your lower class. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, the reader sees a role of ‘new money’ v. ‘old money’. They are not a new form of currency though they are just people who are new to wealth and those who have had it in their families for many generations. Both are in the same social class of wealth, but ‘new money’ and ‘old money’ spend their wealth differently, and have different maturities when it comes to handling their money.

Daisy Buchanan is a very materialistic woman. Not only does she marry Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man, she believes that money makes everything better. Her ideologies about wealth, and the fact that she pays dearly for her wealth and fails to care, shows her obsession with financial stability. In a sense, regardless of how badly Tom treats her, she fails to care. Instead, she holds tightly to the idea that money is the cure-all for everything. The night before their wedding, she wants to call everything off and not marry him but she decides to go through with it because of her desire of money. Daisy and Gatsby get reunited 5 years later and Daisy is filled with regret regarding her decision to marry Tom. Tom cheated on Daisy on their honeymoon,

Some characters think that money can protect them and they therefore act in a careless manner. Even though Tom views money as being the most important thing in life, wealth in itself is not enough to bring him happiness

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"Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby." Harold Bloom has written about this book. The author used several types of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. The colours are probably the easiest to be recognized and guessed what they symbolized. According to the definition “symbolism” is "the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships."

She has no idea how to keep a good, loving relationship. When she was with Gatsby, who was poor at the time, she always expected something. Daisy expects Gatsby to still be poor before she sees him, so she already feels the need to find a better man. She meets Tom Buchanan and begins to use him for his wealth. Once she realizes that Gatsby is rich again, this becomes a love catastrophe for her because both of her love interests are wealthy. Daisy is focusing so much on Gatsby, that she cheats on Tom, and Tom becomes jealous. She never stays steady because she constantly flips flops between Gatsby and Tom throughout the story. She was with Gatsby for a while for his wealth, but she drifts off and begins a relationship with Tom. “Jay Gatsby met her once and began a romance, but the romance ebbed and Daisy married Tom Buchanan” (Bloom 18). Daisy loves Gatsby, yet leaves him for Tom. She starts to love Gatsby again while she is a Buchanan.

He portrays that they only loved each other for the money they had to offer. Their marriage was based on their class type, and not what their love means to each other. Since they were both wealthy, Daisy considered of marrying Tom, since they were both in the same class. She had a love interest for Gatsby, but Gatsby was poor. This lead Daisy to fall for Tom. Gatsby did everything, including illegal activities, to regain Daisy’s love. However, Daisy still loved Gatsby, but was impatient to wait for him to become a wealthy

The narrator Nick goes into detail about the history and the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy meet while Gatsby is in the army, Daisy growing up wealthy and Gatsby a poor young man has no right being with her, Gatsby gives Daisy a sense of security and they have a short relationship. One night when they are together they kiss and Fitzgerald writes, “She had caught a cold, and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever, and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor” (Fitzgerald 150). While poor people are struggling in life, Fitzgerald refers Daisy to money. Throughout Daisy’s life she doesn't experience, struggles and instead lives a life with money that gives her anything she wants. Gatsby on the other hand is poor and sees what money gives you, Gatsby sees that money puts someone above people like him. In reality Daisy isn't living a life she appears to be, she is using men in the army to fill her void of loneliness, if she doesn't have money the men wouldn't all be in love with her. She puts herself as a prized possession for them to have because she has money. Daisy at a young age, and when she gets older uses her money to assert herself over others.

In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is exemplified through many symbols and idols. Fitzgerald uses cars to represent wealth, success, status, and glamour. As Friedrich Nietzsche states, “There are more idols in the world than there are realities.” Nietzsche’s quote shows how idols and symbols are used to create impressions. Images are powerful and set a stage for others to judge one’s character, enabling human beings to avoid seeing what realities are. Idols are potent enough to mask the truth. In the novel, despite Gatsby 's own insecurities, he is viewed as an idol in society. Idols impact and influence Gatsby’s life and those living around him. Gatsby’s car represents an idol, illustrating his wealth, capturing attention, creating impressions, and covering misconceptions throughout life in the West Egg.

Even though The Great Gatsby was about money and fame Happiness still was not achieved. “I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed. Good nights, old sport. He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked and left him standing there in the moonlight--watching over nothing.” This quote makes it clear that all of Gatsby’s wealth will not give him the one thing he wants most: Daisy. She remains with Tom, by choice, while Gatsby stands outside alone in the dark. His money will not buy his way into her life. The Great Gatsby Shows many ways in which money does not buy happiness.

The American Dream is a dream about possibilities, and a desire for success. Sometimes you can interpret the dream for money, sometimes for love regardless of what the you think it is, the dreamer works hard to reach this goal. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is driven by his desire to achieve the American Dream. Unfortunately, Gatsby’s drive to achieve the dream also results in him falling victim to it. Essentially, Gatsby falls victim to the American Dream because he is forced to face the reality that his dream is just that, a dream that is out of reach and unrealistic. The novel also shows what happened to the American Dream in the 1920’s, which is a time period when the dreams became corrupted for many reasons.

Also, his wife Daisy is also corrupt by wealth, she only live being James Gats or better know as Gatsby, regardless how much they loved each other she wouldn 't marry him due to Gatsby not being rich, in addition, Gatsby going to the war Daisy gets tired of waiting for him, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart, she never loved anyone except for me.” F. Scoot Fitzgerald (7, 130) The quote shows us how Daisy is a very money-dependent person, she only married Tom due to his wealth, and she later falls in love again with Gatsby because she learns that he became wealthy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the midst of the roaring twenties, which was an age full of wealth, parties, and romance. Young people living in the 1920s were centered around wanting to find love so Fitzgerald, along with many other authors during this time period, focused his writing in The Great Gatsby on relationships and affection. Jay Gatsby, one of the main characters in the novel, is a very mysterious man but there is one thing that readers know about him for sure: he is utterly in love with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby shows his love for Daisy in many different ways, including him waiting for her, becoming rich for her, buying a mansion across a bay from her house, throwing parties in hopes she will come, and taking the blame for the Myrtle accident. Gatsby truly is a hopeless romantic who will do anything to impress the woman he is so in love with.

The old money who are distinctly situated on the East Egg, aren’t very irresponsible with their wealth, and know how to handle what they have. Daisy and Tom Buchanan are a perfect example of this selfishness. They both will simply move on, and leave the messes that they made for somebody else to clean up, as though it gives him the right to tell the entire world how to behave. This is illustrated in: ’Now, don’t think my opinion on these matters is final just because I’m stronger and more of a man than

Daisy didn’t love Tom before they got married. She almost backed out a few days before the wedding pointing to a note from Gatsby as her reason. Tom knew he had to win over Daisy so “The day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” And the next day she married Tom. Tom bought a wife for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. She sold herself to a man she didn’t love for the money. When Daisy sees the large house and out-of-this-world wealth that Gatsby has she become attracted to him. She falls in love with Gatsby's money. When Tom learns of the affair, he tries to put Gatsby's fortune in question. Tom tells Daisy that Gatsby, “bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.” This information changed how Daisy saw Gatsby. These rumors tainted his fortune; it lost its appeal. Daisy no longer wanted to leave Tom, “Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever courage she had had, were gone.” When Daisy questions the validity of Gatsby's fortune, she is no longer attracted to him. Nick even describes Daisy as “frightened” upon hearing this; she almost lost the luxuries life she has. Choosing Gatsby would now mean taking a step down. In the realm