Money Doesn T Buy Happiness In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the story, The Great Gatsby, by F. Fitzgerald, Money can't buy happiness. Because money can't buy happiness it also can't buy love for example Daisy wasn't having a good time at the party that shows that Gatsby can't make her fall in love with him just by throwing parties with his money. Secondly, Tom had money but Myrtle and him weren't in love which proves that money doesn't make 2 people love each other. And lastly Gatsby didn't end up getting Daisy at the end which helps create the claim because all the money he has and spent trying to get Daisy didn't make her stay with him at the end so they couldn't be happy together.” He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say I never loved you ,After she had obliterated four …show more content…
Which proves that Gatsby wants Daisy to just leave Tom and have everything go back the same as 5 years ago because he has money now buy she doesn't end up leaving Tom. Money also can't buy friendships, for example Gatsby's and Nick's friendship wasn't based on money which shows that Gatsby and Nick developed some type of friendship and it wasn't because Gatsby has money. Secondly money didn't make Tom and George friends and there from 2 different classes which helps support the claim because they both have some type of money whether it's low or high class and that still doesn't make them friends. Lastly Gatsby's money didn't make Tom want to be his friend which supports the claim just because Gatsby had money didn't make Tom like him, "I found out what your 'drug-stores' were,He turned to us and spoke rapidly.He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong”(Fitzgerald