Money can provide you with many material things - a house, a car, great food, pets, a TV, a bed, etc. What many people don't realize though is that having money doesn't necessarily make you any happier than you would be without it. As Paul McCartney wrote, “Money can’t buy me love.” Money can't on its own make you happy or fulfill your emotional needs. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man named Nick Caraway narrates a part of his life that he spent in New York with a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby. Throughout the story, Gatsby finds himself trying to recapture his past, and in particular Daisy, the love of his life, by using money and the material things that it buys. Gatsby doesn't realize that happiness is not ready-made,
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When Gatsby is giving a tour of his mansion to Daisy she says, "I love it, but I don't see how you live there alone." Gatsby replies, "I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day." In this exchange, what is not discussed is that while Gatsby is always surrounded by people at the many parties he throws, none of these people really are his friends. In fact, most of them don’t know anything about him. Many don’t even know what he looks like. They are at his parties only because they are the popular events. This shows how incredibly lonely Gatsby is. He has an endless amount of wealth but no one to share it with. It also suggests that perhaps part of the reason he throws so many large parties is to fill the emptiness he feels inside of him from being alone all of the time. His wealth is not making him happy. By surrounding himself with people who don’t really know or care about him, Gatsby does not find true …show more content…
When Nick and Gatsby are about to drive to New York City for lunch, the author describes Gatsby's car in detail. The car “was rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns." Because the author describes Gatsby’s luxurious car so thoroughly and flamboyantly, you can infer that Gatsby is trying to impress his many guests with it. With Gatsby getting others to notice his expensive car you can also assume that he is hoping that maybe they will be impressed with his wealth and accept him into their crowd. This is another example of Gatsby trying to use his wealth to find acceptance and happiness so he would not feel hollow on the
When Gatsby is giving a tour of his mansion to Daisy she says, "I love it, but I don't see how you live there alone." Gatsby replies, "I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day." In this exchange, what is not discussed is that while Gatsby is always surrounded by people at the many parties he throws, none of these people really are his friends. In fact, most of them don’t know anything about him. Many don’t even know what he looks like. They are at his parties only because they are the popular events. This shows how incredibly lonely Gatsby is. He has an endless amount of wealth but no one to share it with. It also suggests that perhaps part of the reason he throws so many large parties is to fill the emptiness he feels inside of him from being alone all of the time. His wealth is not making him happy. By surrounding himself with people who don’t really know or care about him, Gatsby does not find true …show more content…
When Nick and Gatsby are about to drive to New York City for lunch, the author describes Gatsby's car in detail. The car “was rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns." Because the author describes Gatsby’s luxurious car so thoroughly and flamboyantly, you can infer that Gatsby is trying to impress his many guests with it. With Gatsby getting others to notice his expensive car you can also assume that he is hoping that maybe they will be impressed with his wealth and accept him into their crowd. This is another example of Gatsby trying to use his wealth to find acceptance and happiness so he would not feel hollow on the