The price of money is often greater than its worth. As most people know, money is not easily obtained. Objects like time, effort, and sacrifice are at the base of becoming wealthy. It can take decades, incredible amounts of hard work, and deduction of humanity to obtain the title of being rich. In this case, think of the board game "Risk". In the game, a player must use their troops to gain new territories and great rewards, which is a bold move. However, that is where the risk comes in. A player must sacrifice what they have and if they lose the battle against the opposing side, they lose all that they had to begin with. "Risk" is not only the name of the game, but it is also how you win- or is it lose? Like "Risk", money is also a game. Although
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The most notable character who has exhibited such carelessness because of her obsession with wealth is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy lacks the ability to be genuine and truly care about others. For example, when she and Jay Gatsby gather at his mansion and he continues to show her how much wealth he has obtained, she becomes hooked. However, without his money, Gatsby himself is of much less value in her eyes. Daisy 's primary infatuation with Gatsby is his materialistic possessions and his extravagant lifestyle. For instance, when Gatsby tosses his beautiful, custom-made, silk shirts to Daisy, she is captivated and floored by them. Ross Posnock, a literary critic published in Critical Essays on Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, reveals that she is more interested in the shirts than Gatsby himself because "The intensity of feeling that the usually blasé Daisy reveals in this famous scene is more passionate and spontaneous than anything else she expresses in the novel" (208). In other words, Daisy 's response to the shirts is utterly alarming. She exhibits the most sensual and desirous feelings only when she is being surrounded by things with high monetary value, not when she is surrounded by Gatsby, who loves her more than anything else he has ever known. Daisy does not care about Gatsby 's heart, but instead his insurmountable abundance of
The most notable character who has exhibited such carelessness because of her obsession with wealth is Daisy Buchanan. Daisy lacks the ability to be genuine and truly care about others. For example, when she and Jay Gatsby gather at his mansion and he continues to show her how much wealth he has obtained, she becomes hooked. However, without his money, Gatsby himself is of much less value in her eyes. Daisy 's primary infatuation with Gatsby is his materialistic possessions and his extravagant lifestyle. For instance, when Gatsby tosses his beautiful, custom-made, silk shirts to Daisy, she is captivated and floored by them. Ross Posnock, a literary critic published in Critical Essays on Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, reveals that she is more interested in the shirts than Gatsby himself because "The intensity of feeling that the usually blasé Daisy reveals in this famous scene is more passionate and spontaneous than anything else she expresses in the novel" (208). In other words, Daisy 's response to the shirts is utterly alarming. She exhibits the most sensual and desirous feelings only when she is being surrounded by things with high monetary value, not when she is surrounded by Gatsby, who loves her more than anything else he has ever known. Daisy does not care about Gatsby 's heart, but instead his insurmountable abundance of