Why Is The Great Gatsby Bad

Greed is not always a bad thing, but when many important decisions rely on money and self-gain, it definitely is. Throughout The Great Gatsby, there is a myriad of actions and decisions that greed has a powerful sway on. One of the most prevalent ones is Daisy’s decision to marry Tom instead of Gatsby. Even though she is deeply in love with Gatsby, she marries Tom because of his stable, affluent financial background. Gatsby even announces this to Tom during a confrontation saying, “She only married you [Tom] because I was poor, and she was tired of waiting for me…in her heart she never loved anyone except me” (Fitzgerald, 2000.) Rather than following her heart and waiting for Gatsby, Daisy selfishly marries Tom just because he is wealthier. In contrast, the characters in The Grapes of Wrath are less worried about money, and more about the well

He cares about her so much, yet Tom has been cheating on Daisy since the beginning of their relationship. It is made clear that Tom does not value her at all, so Gatsby does not deserve the pain he receives when Daisy chooses to stay with Tom over him, because of how much he loves Daisy.

When Gatsby first met Daisy, he was merely a poor boy with dreams much bigger than his wallet. Daisy was everything he could have possibly dreamed of: rich, beautiful and powerful. As his love for her grew, so did his ambition to give her whatever he could. When Gatsby acquired a lot of money by a chance encounter with a sailor, his first thought was of his heart. He had left it with Daisy. But, as seen in the book, love that is given yet not returned is poisonous. Although Daisy loved Gatsby, she was too obsessed with the American Dream to ever truly give him her heart. No matter how much Gatsby tried, part of Daisy would always belong to Tom and to

A villain is also called the antagonist—defined as one who contends with or opposes another in a fight, conflict, or battle of wills. The true villains held within the pages between the two covers of The Great Gatsby could be classified as anyone and everyone. I believe the three main ones throughout the story, though, are Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan; they’ve hurt so many people. Some on purpose, some unconsciously were hurt. Jay Gatsby could be known as the most villainous, but to himself.

Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are many ways that love is purchased, three of these include, Daisy staying married to Tom because of his wealth and title, Gatsby trying to impress Daisy with the things his money has purchased, and Tom buying Myrtle the dog and apartment. Daisy loves Gatsby and prefers his company over anyone else's, in the novel it says, "I knew that except for the half hour she'd been alone with Gatsby Daisy wasn't having a good time" (112). Although Daisy cares for Gatsby, she has a strong title, lots of money, and a child with Tom. Daisy seems like the type of girl who would choose life-long wealth and class over her own heart's true desire.

Daisy is one of the main characters whose obsession with wealth influences her life decisions. “ Her voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald 128). this quote shows that even people around Daisy can hear the longing for money in her voice. She is obsessed with money and thinks that if she has it she will achieve happiness. “ She wanted her life shaped now, immediately- and the decision must be made by some force-of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality-” (Fitzgerald 161). Daisy thought money and love would make her life more fulfilled and she believed it was the only way for it to be more adequate. She wanted her life to be perfect and she was willing to go with whoever could provide her more money and love. In Daisy’s marriage with Tom she felt a lack of love because of Tom’s mistress, which is why she was drawn to Gatsby once again. When Gatsby and Daisy first met he was lacking money but they were in love. Daisy was consumed by the idea that she must have both money and love in order to get happiness, that she ended

The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, though not hugely successful at the time of its publication, is widely regarded as a literary masterpiece. F. Scott Fitzgerald took inspiration from the events in his own life to create a tale of love and lies, set in a time of endless illegal booze and hot new music. Fitzgerald and his wife were notorious party animals, and Fitzgerald had an experience with love that is perfectly reflected in the story of Gatsby. Fitzgerald puts a little bit of himself into the character of Jay Gatsby, forging a desperate man on an impossible mission for lost love, who eventually ends up getting his heart pierced in every imaginable way. Jay Gatsby is depicted as borderline perfect, but shows a fair amount of selfishness.

While Gatsby and Tom are arguing over Daisy like children, Gatsby informs Tom, “[Daisy] never loved you, do you hear? In her heart she never loved anyone except me,” (Fitzgerald 130). For Gatsby it isnt satisfying knowing that Daisy loves him; he has to know that she never loved Tom. Later in the novel, Nick remarks that “Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves,” (Fitzgerald 150). He’s rapacious with Daisy’s feelings and with the idea of having her and allows it get in the way of actually having a relationship with her. Gatsby seems to look at Daisy like a lost treasure that he’d do anything to get when she is really only a shallow, simple woman. In her article, “Five Reasons 'Gatsby' is the Great American Novel,” Donahue says that “To Gatsby, Daisy isn't a married woman with a daughter. She's an object, something he lost and wants back.” He came across as a kind man in the novel, but his own desires led to losing

The Great Gatsby takes place in New York during the Roaring Twenties, also referred to as the Jazz Age. There were two formations of lands, West Egg, which was where the narrator, Nick, lived and East Egg, the more fashionable and luxurious land on the other side of the coast. Gatsby threw these extravagant and lavish parties at his mansion, hoping to reconnect with his soulmate Daisy. The women would

     Daisy falls for the same shallowness that Gatsby does. She doesn’t love Gatsby for who he is—she does like him for his personality, partly, but it’s mostly because he has the money now, and is therefore much more qualified to be with her. Daisy really doesn’t want to be with Tom, for example, “I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband” (p. 76) Jordan says, on how Daisy felt after marrying Tom. She wanted Gatsby. Or rather, she wanted to have a nice husband that would be a caring, rich gentleman. And Gatsby fills that idea up perfectly.

Some people may take away the responsibility that Daisy has over her actions saying that marrying Tom has made her come a victim to the crude force of Tom’s money. Daisy believed that Gatsby had money; that is why she loved him in the first place. At the time of her marriage to Tom, she had already promised to marry Gatsby, but she made the choice to break that promise and marry Tom. Even when she got a letter from Gatsby right before her wedding, she went through with it, proving that although Tom’s money may be a “crude force,” in the end she knew what she wanted. She knows that by marrying Tom the love that she could’ve had with Gatsby would be lost. This shows what is most important to her.

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.

Daisy Buchanan has a similar lifestyle to Tom, she’s wealthy ‘voice is full of money’ and always wore ‘white’ symbolising her purity and wealth. However as a woman of a higher class, there not much she can do in her ‘shallow life’, as she has the money but doesn’t know how to plan events ‘what do people plan?’. This shows that she is not content with her knowledge and understanding of life therefore even with money she isn’t ‘happy’. This leads her to ‘have an affair’ with an ex-lover whom she so adored before she married Tom ‘I did love him once – But I loved you too’. In the novel, Daisy only every seeks true love when she’s with Gatsby but ‘a rich girls don’t marry poor boys’, so due to this social difference between them, she knows the only place she will ever have security is with Tom. Tom describes their affair as a ‘presumptuous little flirtation’ because to Daisy, she knew she was never going to marry Gatsby but to Gatsby it was just never

Cheating, spending, killing, although wealth seems glorious it comes with its consequences and some choose to face them and others don't. In the book the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the statement “wealth breeds carelessness” is greatly supported, the two characters who portray this the most is Tom and Daisy Buchanan. As both Tom and Daisy cheat on one another they have no regard for those they are cheating with, on or even those around the cheating. When the book progresses it becomes overwhelmingly clear that the only thing that either of them truly care for is money. Finally as the book comes to an end and their problems grow more great they use their wealth to escape and because it's so easy to get away fro their problem becomes so small to them although it's extremely great.

Similarly to "The Great Gatsby" which is set in New York and Long Island in two areas known as "East egg and West egg" during the summer of 1922 also called the "jazz age". West egg was the less fashionable egg with new money. Nick and Gatsby live here and Nick stated that his house was an "eyesore" in comparison to Gatsby's. East egg then is the more fashionable egg with old money and Tom, Daisy and Jordan reside