Great Gatsby Materialistic

The Capability of Materialistics

Many say that money cannot buy happiness, but others believe it truly can and that it can also buy love. When a person's life revolves around money it is very possible to buy something that others think is priceless. Although you can probably obtain love and happiness by purchasing it, it might not always be easy to keep. Money and love are two things in life that must be worked for and in the end they are either kept or lost. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald wealth and love are the two main sources of satisfaction, but also of despair in the lives of the people in the East Egg. Falling in love, for most, is described as seeing someone you might find attractive, getting …show more content…
Tom and Daisy’s relationship could be described as a relationship with bumps. The bumps being the cheating but also the lack of love, compassion and respect between the two. Both Daisy and Tom could care less about their daughter and that's why she is only brought up twice in the entire story. Even Daisy admits that she ‘wanted to show [her] off’ and instantly asks her daughter how she feels about her friends as approval(123).They use their daughter not to show the world that they are parents, but as a sort of trophy and not actual love because who cares about that when you have money? Although Daisy does talk about her daughter, unlike Tom, it’s never anything positive. She brings up her daughter's birth and when she finds out her gender she's “happy”, but not for the reason a typical mother would be excited for. When the nurse told her the gender she “turned [her] head away and wept”. Daisy said that she hoped “she'll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool (21)”. Daisy is talking about her own circumstance, but uses her daughter as in example so she doesn't call herself a fool. She does this because she is fully aware that her husband has a mistress, but is still living with him and the only reason she continues to live with him is because she is so use to the money she couldn't possible …show more content…
Romance and wealth separately can cause destruction, but if it's put together it can tear a person down. Gatsby spent his whole life acquiring money and also trying to get the one and only person he loved in this world. He had an illusion that when that person knew all the sacrifices he did for her she would fall in love with him all over again as if she didn't have a husband and child to worry about. It wasn't just the commitment, it was the money that made Daisy start to fall in love with Gatsby all over again. In his mind he had so much wealth that it would overcome what Tom had and she would leave him for Gatsby. He was so sure of it that he was able to pressure Daisy into telling Tom she never loved him. It was a lie and Gatsby knew. He wanted terribly to speak to her alone and convince her that she didn't love Tom and only loved Gatsby but she responded by telling him that “even alone [she] can’t say [she] never loved Tom. It wouldn't be true”(140). In Daisy’s heart she knew she was never going to go away and leave her family to go with Gatsby because she truly did love her husband and he surprisingly loved her as well. Even though Gatsby knew that Daisy wasn't going to run away and live with him he still cared for her and hoped she would change her mind, but love is strong and money is even stronger. When Gatsby dies he has very few friends that Nick can get a