Value of Money
If you are a simple-minded person, money and social status can give you happiness. Ultimately it will not determine your fate though. If you choose to live a simple life without any real purpose you will be satisfied with the amount of money you make, but if you have a “dream” a “bigger than life goal” you will never be satisfied. A character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has a similar experience when even though everyone is fond of him he is never satisfied. Jay Gatsby is this particular character. When the Narrator meets the character he talks about him as a “God” and how he seems unmistakably perfect and lives a grand life. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to uncover the theme that “Money can’t buy you happiness.” He reveals this by showing how unhappy and unsatisfied Gatsby is with money and he continues to strive for more even though he is already very successful. In Chapter 6, Gatsby reveals a quote that proves that even though Gatsby has this unbelievable amount of wealth, popularity, and charming looks he still isn’t happy with the direction his life is going “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had …show more content…
This is because he can’t come to the realization that Daisy has loved someone else and having her simply is not enough, but if you look deeper into the situation you find out that Daisy is also symbolism to Gatsby’s old life. While he did love her, she represented “Gatsby’s dream” and how he craves his old life back. These next words conclude the novel and the narrator is beginning to realize the significance of the green light “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster,
If you are a simple-minded person, money and social status can give you happiness. Ultimately it will not determine your fate though. If you choose to live a simple life without any real purpose you will be satisfied with the amount of money you make, but if you have a “dream” a “bigger than life goal” you will never be satisfied. A character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has a similar experience when even though everyone is fond of him he is never satisfied. Jay Gatsby is this particular character. When the Narrator meets the character he talks about him as a “God” and how he seems unmistakably perfect and lives a grand life. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to uncover the theme that “Money can’t buy you happiness.” He reveals this by showing how unhappy and unsatisfied Gatsby is with money and he continues to strive for more even though he is already very successful. In Chapter 6, Gatsby reveals a quote that proves that even though Gatsby has this unbelievable amount of wealth, popularity, and charming looks he still isn’t happy with the direction his life is going “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had …show more content…
This is because he can’t come to the realization that Daisy has loved someone else and having her simply is not enough, but if you look deeper into the situation you find out that Daisy is also symbolism to Gatsby’s old life. While he did love her, she represented “Gatsby’s dream” and how he craves his old life back. These next words conclude the novel and the narrator is beginning to realize the significance of the green light “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster,