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Use Of Materialism In The Great Gatsby

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Behind the Dream
The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was published in 1925. An extremely wealthy man, Jay Gatsby, and his long love for Daisy Buchanan, together portrays the American Dream within their lifestyles. He moves to the West Egg to find new riches and to make more money but also throws parties to flaunt his wealth. Moving to the West Egg, to attract everyone especially Daisy. While there are many themes, F. Scott Fitzgerald emphasized throughout the book, The American Dream is the most prevalent. The American dream is going from nobody to somebody as long as you work hard enough for it. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald attempts to show the American Dream through the romance Jay Gatsby shares with Daisy, and materialism …show more content…

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses materialism as it was used back in the Jazz age time period. Materialism revolved around relationships, jobs, and social statuses. Back in the society, having more money meant that you could basically buy your happiness. Which is what Jay Gatsby did. “Although Daisy has been married off to Tom Buchanan, Gatsby is determined to win her back by displaying his new wealth…Not only do Gatsby…impress women with their wealth, but they equate those women with money. To Gatsby, Daisy’s ‘voice is full of money’” (Roberts, 14). Throughout the whole novel Gatsby is going out of his way to impress Daisy, and his way of impressing her is by flaunting his wealth. He throws all these extravagant parties in hope to catch Daisy’s eye. The description of Gatsby’s parties highlights the 'extraordinary extent' of Gatsby’s wealth and materialism. In contrast to Tom and Daisy’s expensive but not overly gaudy mansion, and the small dinner party Nick attends there in everything about Gatsby’s new wealth is as best as he could be. Everyone who attends the parties is attracted by Gatsby’s money and …show more content…

Gatsby was stuck on Daisy which had him going out of his way to try and get Daisy away from her marriage that Gatsby doesn't think is good for her to be in. Gatsby and Daisy spent more and more time together, causing some feelings to start developing interjecting Daisy's marriage with Tom, showing the romantic bond taking place. None the less Gatsby started to interact with Daisy by inviting her over to his mansion. While doing this, Gatsby had shown Daisy all his nice colorful silk shirts that basically is the definition of being wealthy back then. He does this because, one, he knows once he Daisy sees what he is living in and what he owns, she will fall back in love with him because Daisy is all about money, but two, he is really trying to win back her

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