With all the money, party’s and unnecessary gold items seeing how materialism is shown in The Great Gatsby isn’t really that hard. The over all message of the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is that the “American Dream” isn’t all it seams and money can’t buy everything. Using materialism helped show how dumb it was to think money could buy things like happiness. You can tell how much money effects the people in it, listen to a guest at Gatsby’s party as she tells a little story about something Gatsby did for her "When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and [Gatsby] asked my name and address-inside of a week I got a package from Croirier's with a new evening gown in it...Two hundred and sixty five dollars" (Fitzgerald,47-48).
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It was Gatsby’s girl before he went to the war and she left him. Gatsby was poor at the time and daisy didn’t want to wait around, when he went to the war she left him and went to a rich man named Tom. Gatsby says "She [Daisy] never loved you [Tom], do you hear?" he cried. "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 me!"'(137). Daisy didn’t really like Tom like she did Gatsby she was just in it for the …show more content…
He gives plenty of examples through out the novel, one involves some shirts he bought for her. Obviously with Gatsby being the person he is with such high expensive taste they were no regular shirts. "he took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before [Daisy]...green and lavender and faint orange" (Fitzgerald,98). He shows his affection by buying her expensive colorful silk shirts and different things and you can see how happy it makes her showing how materialistic people can be. Having all the money in the world to buy someone anything isn’t what will really make someone happy, and Fitzgerald tries to show that in this part of the novel. Gatsby has all the cars, houses, rings, watches, and everything else you could imagine but is that really what makes him happy? And if so how long does it
It was Gatsby’s girl before he went to the war and she left him. Gatsby was poor at the time and daisy didn’t want to wait around, when he went to the war she left him and went to a rich man named Tom. Gatsby says "She [Daisy] never loved you [Tom], do you hear?" he cried. "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 me!"'(137). Daisy didn’t really like Tom like she did Gatsby she was just in it for the …show more content…
He gives plenty of examples through out the novel, one involves some shirts he bought for her. Obviously with Gatsby being the person he is with such high expensive taste they were no regular shirts. "he took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before [Daisy]...green and lavender and faint orange" (Fitzgerald,98). He shows his affection by buying her expensive colorful silk shirts and different things and you can see how happy it makes her showing how materialistic people can be. Having all the money in the world to buy someone anything isn’t what will really make someone happy, and Fitzgerald tries to show that in this part of the novel. Gatsby has all the cars, houses, rings, watches, and everything else you could imagine but is that really what makes him happy? And if so how long does it