The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the novel, The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald discusses the thin dangerous line between money and greed. We are introduced to Nick Carraway our narrator, we see all the events through his eyes and all of his biased opinions. Readers are challenged and questioned on whether they agree or disagree with Fitzgerald’s claim on love and money. Fitzgerald claims that there is nothing in nature that produces happiness. Gatsby focused all of his energy on material items to gain the attention of Daisy. As we learn in The Great Gatsby money is a huge motivator and common recurring theme in the novel. Fitzgerald attempts to tell us that money does have value but it may not necessarily make people happy or get them everything they want nor

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby details the tribulations that come with being immensely rich or extremely poor. One such example is the original decision by Daisy to bypass Gatsby and instead get married to Tom. Later on in the book, it is revealed that Daisy was in love with Gatsby and he was in love with her, but they couldn’t get married, primarily because they occupy different social strata (Fitzgerald 151). She instead marries Tom and immediately regrets it. Fitzgerald crafted this situation to make commentary on how money and the need to be around it, can cause people to cut

Daisy chooses money over love. Even though she loved Gatsby, she married Tom for his wealth. When Tom speaks about Gatsby’s background and wealth, it effects Daisy and she ends up choosing Tom once again. She is not capable of freeing herself from a wealthy society. For a wedding gift Tom gave her a string of pearls that cost three hundred and fifty dollars. She is corrupt by greed and chooses the comfort and security of money over real love. The only reason she ever went for Gatsby the first time was because he lied about his background of being from a wealthy family. She chose to marry Tom because his family promised her a wealthy lifestyle. She is greedy because she let Gatsby take the blame for killing Myrtle when she did it herself, and instead of attending Gatsby’s funeral, her and Tom moved away and didn’t leave an address. On page 137, Gatsby tells tom that Daisy never loved 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

Gatsby does not realize that Daisy also represents the corruption that comes along with wealth. "Her voice is full of money, he suddenly said. That was it. I'd never understood it before. It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. . . . High in a white Palace the King's daughter, the golden girl" (127). Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy and her voice that promised riches, but he does not realize that money was the only thing she offered. After listening to Tom, Nick describes Daisy and Tom as careless people who "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (188). Daisy lets Gatsby take the blame for Myrtle’s death and shows no concern over Gatsby’s death showing her carelessness with people’s lives. Tom and Daisy’s actions indicate the corrupting effects that wealth can have on someone. They focus too much on appearance and materialism and ignore other people’s feelings and lives.

People have a general conception that having more wealth creates more happiness within a person's life. This theory is disproved through F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Daisy’s melancholy personality and regret after leaving Gatsby and marrying Tom for money demonstrates that wealth does not buy love nor fulfillment in life proving that some people value financial security over love.

“Money can’t buy me love” (McCartney). This quote and many like it continually tell people that money is never the end to all means. With more and more power and knowledge coming to the poor, and the rich being allowed to have divergent thinking this ideology has grown. It has grown to the point where some may say that money and wealth are a detriment to happiness. This is seen with how the rich are often portrayed as people obsessed with trivial matters, and have no real meaning to their life. This can be seen in The Great Gatsby as well. Tom and Daisy, as the only main characters who were always from high wealth show this the most. Tom is an idiot, a jock “who [reached] such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything after

Happiness is the best and the worst, it is pleasing and painful. Is happiness the state of being happy? Shouldn’t money bring the state of being happy? In the book The Great Gatsby money cannot buy you happiness. Gatsby had to find out the hard way.

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.

Money can buy materialistic things but can it buy love? In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, we are introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway. We learn that Daisy Buchanan, Nick’s cousin, had loved a man before he left for the war named, Jay Gatsby, but now Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, from Chicago. Gatsby tries everything to win Daisy’s love back. He tries impressing her with all the money in the world in which he even buys a house to be near Daisy and show her that he could get anything and everything he wants, but in the end, Gatsby’s money ends up losing in buying Daisy’s love. Fitzgerald reveals the theme money can’t buy love through the use of word choice, symbolism, and hyperbole.

In The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald feels that money can’t buy happiness or relationships. Daisy only married Tom because he provided her with stability and was rich, Gatsby was away at war and broke. “Take em down - stairs and give me back to whoever they belong to” (Fitzgerald 76). When Daisy got the letter from Gatsby a day before her wedding she broke down and almost didn’t marry Tom because Gatsby was the one she loved. Gatsby spent years getting rich just to get Daisy back.

I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past”( Fitzgerald 130). Even when Daisy finally reconnects with the love of her life and is able to have virtually the same exact lifestyle she still doesn't due to Tom being from old money and Gatsby had not. This social norm of believing that Tom came from a much longer line of upper class completely changed the course of her love life and lost what her true love really was. This norm of going for something purely based on the status it has does not just limit itself to wealth.

The Victorian Era of England, and the Modern Era of the United States had vast differences. However, they were not that far apart, and as a result were not as dissimilar as it might appear at first glance. With only 30 years, and an ocean between them, the world of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portray big similarities that even relate to their differences.

The Beatles once said, “For I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me, love.” With this said, money can't buy you happiness, friends, love and so much more which is more or less the theme I will constantly be bringing up. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the historical drama was about a man by the name of Jay Gatsby, he had everyone in the city of New York as a friend and riches that would astound one with his immense parties. Gatsby struggled for all of the riches just to impress his forever love, Daisy. Unfortunately, Daisy was already married to Tom Buchanan.

Hello, my name is Catherine Wang and I will be giving my Individual Oral Presentation on The Great Gatsby. The American Dream is not all it 's cracked up to be in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby in his pursuit of his love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby makes his fortune to try to win Daisy over, but he learns that the quests for both was hollow. The central conflict pits the classes against one another, and Fitzgerald uses the settings of the novel to highlight the differences between them and enhance the plot in the context of the 1920’s.

Money is a big part of life. However, people tend to have a misconception that money contributes to happiness. It is not possible to “buy happiness". Conversely, everyone should be aware that it is friendships, good health, and family that truly brings one happiness to which a person aspires. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the concept of money being able to buy happiness is a widespread theme. Money is unable to create a sense of contentment in many of the characters in the novel. Therefor money can not buy happiness.