The Great Gatsby
The book, The Great Gatsby, relayed the old message, money doesn’t make you happy in the form of a beautiful tragedy. It relays the immense and vast carelessness of the wealthy. In the book all these incredibly wealthy and rather famous people are living the “American Dream.” There lives are filled with flashy cars and enormous houses, elegant clothing made of only the finest materials. They have all they could ever want. They lack morals and good judgment as well as compassion. We as Americans have a sense of entitlement about us, we always have, from our Manifest Destiny to our American Dream. We believe we have the right to anything and everything we see, and even when we have everything all we want is more.
Nick Carraway …show more content…
Another example, also said by Tom pertains a lot to the idea of “new money” and “old money”, “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well if that’s the idea then count me out…” The idea of “new money” versus “old money” is that all these “new money” people, Gatsby being one of them, have just come up and have worked for their money, which somehow in the eyes of the Prejudiced American amount to less than those of the “old money” class who grew up having all the money they could ever want, just like their fathers and mothers, and grandfathers and grandmothers, these people never had to work a day in their life. They are people like Tom who was, as Nick Carraway said “..one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savors of anticlimax.” Or like Daisy whose voice was “full of money” together they were careless and destructive, as Nick stated “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and retreated and then retreated 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 …show more content…
They think they deserve everything they want. That word “want” is underlined because if something bad were to happen to them like they wrecked their fancy Rolls Royce, it wouldn’t be their fault, at least not in their opinion. It would be the fault of the person who got hit, or the fault of the person next to them in the car but never their fault because that means responsibility for the thing they smashed up. I bet they wouldn’t even stop to see if the other person was okay, because it’s not their fault they don’t have to take responsibility for their actions because it’ll be covered up by someone else. We see this still happening today, celebrities and wealthy people getting away with things a normal person would most definitely not get away with. The wealthy seem to have a profound sense of entitlement that lets them do whatever they want whenever they want. When things they don’t want to happen do they just retreat into their money or their carelessness because they
The book, The Great Gatsby, relayed the old message, money doesn’t make you happy in the form of a beautiful tragedy. It relays the immense and vast carelessness of the wealthy. In the book all these incredibly wealthy and rather famous people are living the “American Dream.” There lives are filled with flashy cars and enormous houses, elegant clothing made of only the finest materials. They have all they could ever want. They lack morals and good judgment as well as compassion. We as Americans have a sense of entitlement about us, we always have, from our Manifest Destiny to our American Dream. We believe we have the right to anything and everything we see, and even when we have everything all we want is more.
Nick Carraway …show more content…
Another example, also said by Tom pertains a lot to the idea of “new money” and “old money”, “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well if that’s the idea then count me out…” The idea of “new money” versus “old money” is that all these “new money” people, Gatsby being one of them, have just come up and have worked for their money, which somehow in the eyes of the Prejudiced American amount to less than those of the “old money” class who grew up having all the money they could ever want, just like their fathers and mothers, and grandfathers and grandmothers, these people never had to work a day in their life. They are people like Tom who was, as Nick Carraway said “..one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savors of anticlimax.” Or like Daisy whose voice was “full of money” together they were careless and destructive, as Nick stated “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and retreated and then retreated 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 …show more content…
They think they deserve everything they want. That word “want” is underlined because if something bad were to happen to them like they wrecked their fancy Rolls Royce, it wouldn’t be their fault, at least not in their opinion. It would be the fault of the person who got hit, or the fault of the person next to them in the car but never their fault because that means responsibility for the thing they smashed up. I bet they wouldn’t even stop to see if the other person was okay, because it’s not their fault they don’t have to take responsibility for their actions because it’ll be covered up by someone else. We see this still happening today, celebrities and wealthy people getting away with things a normal person would most definitely not get away with. The wealthy seem to have a profound sense of entitlement that lets them do whatever they want whenever they want. When things they don’t want to happen do they just retreat into their money or their carelessness because they