Isolation In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

``Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”(Ayn Rand) In many traditional families, Men are in most cases the number one supporters, meaning they bring in most of the affluence, but evidently studies have shown that Daughters with high paid working Mothers are more likely to receive a higher paying job due to their Mothers hard work and drive, but often this wealth does not bring happiness to the individual due to loneliness and jealousy. Evidently, Women with strong high paying jobs generally influence their children to be successful and obtain a prosperous job, but in many cases this retrieved wealth can cause unhappiness and Mental Illnesses due to an extraneous amount of Isolation. …show more content…
The wealthy live in East egg implying they have old money, or have always had money, where the less fortunate live in West Egg, meaning they have new money, implying if they have any money, they are just obtaining it. In the Gatsby, Daisy states ”I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (Fitzgerald) Daisy has a young daughter, with her husband Tom, but during and after the birth, Tom is nowhere to be seen. From there on she realizes how men actually view women and she prays that her daughter is a fool. She prays that she is oblivious to the world and finds a man with money and that can support her, because that's the situation Daisy was in. Daisy has never worked in her life, so when her daughter grows older and sees that she just stays at home, lives an extravagant life and gets her money from Tom, she will follow this trend and her husband will ultimately not support her intelligence. She wants her daughter to live a carefree and simplistic life and be oblivious to how men treat women and how that affects their lives. A large number of people think that changing everything about yourself, can result in a new start and a new future, just like Gatsby. “ It was James Gatz… I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people- his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.” (Fitzgerald) Jay Gatsby started out as James Gatz before he became rich. His parents were poor farmers and Mr. Gatsby realized that he wanted an extraordinary life with money and women, so he changed his name and moved away from his parents that he “never really accepted” as his parents in his life. He started a new life, with new people and new jobs all over the place and suddenly started turning peoples heads, till the point where he was throwing huge parties in his