The Role Of Wealth In The Great Gatsby

During the 1920s your wealth depended on what social status you belong in. If you're wealthy you were looked up to but if you were poor no one payed attention to you. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald explains that your social status depended on if you were wealthy or not. And how they achieved their wealth. Tom Buchanan is very wealthy and the things he owns shows how wealthy he is. “His family was enormously wealthy-even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach” (Fitzgerald 10). Tom’s family has always been very wealthy, in college he could spend as much money as he wanted. And since he grew up and was raised in West Egg he grew up very wealthy and was automatically wealthy as he grew up and had a beautiful house in West Egg. “ That a thing is successful merely means that it is a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire”. Once you are a millionaire for a long time you become used to being a millionaire. It will also carry on through …show more content…
This makes a difference between Daisy staying with Tom or going with Gatsby. Daisy decides that she still loves Tom more than Gatsby even after what Gatsby has accomplished and showed off to her. “Only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away trying to touch what was no longer tangible struggling unhappily.” Daisy is having a hard time saying bye and Gatsby's dream was slowly going away and her voice was slowly fading off. “good work will not make him a rich man, but work may make him a good workman.” Daisy did not want to be with Tom, and this is saying that if she did he would succeed in living, but she didn't want Gatsby so he is a dead man now and all his dreams are over. Shows that when your dreams fail you don't have a happy life but if they do succeed you will have a good