Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, highlights many truths about a ruthless and deceitful society. Jay Gatsby yearns to buy the love of his past beau, Daisy Buchanan. He becomes so engulfed in the idea of Daisy’s perfect love that he forgets the meaning of life. In Jay Gatsby’s quest for the love of his life, he believes only a certain social status will convince Daisy that he can play the role of her “Gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover.” Although Jay Gatsby grew up a poor farm boy, he becomes a successful, young businessman. He didn’t like the life his parents led, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (104). Gatsby
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To West Eggers, it’s not about how they get rich, it only matters that they are rich. In consideration, Jay Gatsby is the most materialistic young man the reader meets in the book. In hopes to find Daisy, he throws the most extravagant parties which attract West Egg, East Egg, and celebrity guests. Daisy isn’t even aware that her long-lost lover lives just across the bay: “Gatsby had bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (83). Gatsby buys every item he can think to purchase with the chance that Daisy may never see it. Once Gatsby finally persuades Nick Caraway to invite Daisy to his home for tea, he desperately tries to clean up Nick’s home to perfection. He showers him with gifts for Daisy. He is breathless and perplexed when he finally sees Daisy for the first time in five …show more content…
Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are not the only men in the novel whose lives revolve around money. Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress, is also absorbed in having an extravagant lifestyle. “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman” (39). Immediately after finding out her husband was poor, she began a love affair with Tom, a millionaire. Tom and Myrtle spend countless hours in New York where Tom bought Myrtle an apartment with a dog. “The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles” (33). Myrtle Wilson didn't truly love Tom, she merely loved the extravagant possessions he was able to buy her. Daisy Fay Buchanan was just as materialistic as Myrtle was. Although she did love Gatsby, she valued money more than anything. The idea of Daisy completely consumed Gatsby’s life so much that he changed his entire lifestyle; he strained for her acceptance, strained for her to notice him. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they 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…” (187-88). Gatsby had lied his way to the top of the chain to become the person Daisy wanted him to be, and he took the fall for murdering Myrtle Wilson. He never realized that Daisy was not
To West Eggers, it’s not about how they get rich, it only matters that they are rich. In consideration, Jay Gatsby is the most materialistic young man the reader meets in the book. In hopes to find Daisy, he throws the most extravagant parties which attract West Egg, East Egg, and celebrity guests. Daisy isn’t even aware that her long-lost lover lives just across the bay: “Gatsby had bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (83). Gatsby buys every item he can think to purchase with the chance that Daisy may never see it. Once Gatsby finally persuades Nick Caraway to invite Daisy to his home for tea, he desperately tries to clean up Nick’s home to perfection. He showers him with gifts for Daisy. He is breathless and perplexed when he finally sees Daisy for the first time in five …show more content…
Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are not the only men in the novel whose lives revolve around money. Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress, is also absorbed in having an extravagant lifestyle. “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman” (39). Immediately after finding out her husband was poor, she began a love affair with Tom, a millionaire. Tom and Myrtle spend countless hours in New York where Tom bought Myrtle an apartment with a dog. “The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles” (33). Myrtle Wilson didn't truly love Tom, she merely loved the extravagant possessions he was able to buy her. Daisy Fay Buchanan was just as materialistic as Myrtle was. Although she did love Gatsby, she valued money more than anything. The idea of Daisy completely consumed Gatsby’s life so much that he changed his entire lifestyle; he strained for her acceptance, strained for her to notice him. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they 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…” (187-88). Gatsby had lied his way to the top of the chain to become the person Daisy wanted him to be, and he took the fall for murdering Myrtle Wilson. He never realized that Daisy was not