Money is a force that has become a major part of the world today. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, money affects the lives of people, changes people, motivates people, and plays a major role in people’s lives. All of these signs are shown through the lives of Daisy and especially Gatsby. Money causes bad things to happen, through the lives of Daisy and Gatsby, while it also causes some good in the life of Gatsby. In the novel, money plays a major role in people’s lives. Daisy is constantly going back and forth, from man to man. When something does happen with someone, Daisy hides behind her money. Daisy does this exact action in the last chapter ¨I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, he called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them¨(Fitzgerald 172). After Gatsby died due to Daisy's driving she either moved or went on a long vacation to not get in trouble. She left with her
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In the beginning of Gatsby's life he was a nobody from nowhere. His dad had found a book of Gatsby's. ¨"I came across this book by accident," said the old man. "It just shows you, don't it?" "It just shows you." "Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something¨(Fitzgerald 182). Gatsby was motivated to get rich and used this book to help him with that. In Gatsby's life he has changed greatly and it is shown through the change of his name. ¨So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end¨(Fitzgerald 104). At this point after he changed his name it signifies the change in himself. He is now turning to a new chapter in his life for the motivation to acquire wealth, he created a character of himself to help with it. Money doesn't only motivate and change people but it also affects people's
In the beginning of Gatsby's life he was a nobody from nowhere. His dad had found a book of Gatsby's. ¨"I came across this book by accident," said the old man. "It just shows you, don't it?" "It just shows you." "Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something¨(Fitzgerald 182). Gatsby was motivated to get rich and used this book to help him with that. In Gatsby's life he has changed greatly and it is shown through the change of his name. ¨So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end¨(Fitzgerald 104). At this point after he changed his name it signifies the change in himself. He is now turning to a new chapter in his life for the motivation to acquire wealth, he created a character of himself to help with it. Money doesn't only motivate and change people but it also affects people's