Why Is Happiness Important In The Great Gatsby

Benjamin Franklin once said "Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.” Happiness can come from several different aspects in life such as relationships, getting a perfect job or even the way you live life. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in 1925, portrays what seems to be a love story between two individuals displaying the American dream of what many believe is wealth and love to receive happiness, while it actually is displaying the true way to receive happiness is with loyalty and the truth. Through life, one may think that they understand the true meaning of happiness without questioning our own interpretations, this may …show more content…
This survey helped to prove that people only think that money will make them happy. However, most of the people who seem to be stating these facts are the people who are involved in the lower and middle class. Despite while in today’s society, the world has instilled in people that to be happy and successful, one must acquire wealth. Although because of a plethora of people working in the world who are extremely happy with the job they are doing. Although, there are also people who have very high paying jobs, they potentially only retain those jobs because they want the money and not the happiness. While Tom Buchanan showed very little emotion throughout Fitzgerald’s novel, by learning that Gatsby has wealth like himself, it created an uneasy threat towards him. Gatsby on the other hand, seems to be happy with his money and that his true intention and use of his earnings was about gaining affection from Daisy. “ I think he half expected her to wander into one of his