With the riches and fame does not always come with what one desires, happiness is required through a different way. While everyone is looking to achieve happiness in their life, many might try to achieve that by acquiring a lot of money. On the other hand, many people look for happiness in a lot of attention being drawn to them with fame. While some might acquire the riches and fame, many people tend to see that it's not the real desire in life. In fact many of the people who make it to the top, are seen to be unhappy with themselves and artificial. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how artificial the upper class from the 1920’s can be.
To begin with the main character Nick Carraway is the one that the reader …show more content…
The characters selfishness is a contribution to show how artificial they are. In the novel Nick is asked for a big favor from Gatsby to set up Daisy to come to his party. This is a big favor to ask from Nick considering his cousin (Daisy) is a married women. In the novel Gatsby says “ She only married you [Tom] because I was poor, and she was tired of waiting for me…in her heart she never loved anyone except me”.(200) Rather than Daisy doing what she knows what is right for her, she goes on to marry Tom because of his wealth. Society see’s upperclassmen to be …show more content…
Daisy and Tom leave the town with no mention of Gatsby. Gatsby is murdered without fulfilling his love for Daisy, and many of the media outlets uses Gatsby’s death as a headline on the paper. At the end of the novel we can see how the rich tend to run away from there problems instead of solving the issue. One of the contributing factors to Daisy and Tom running away from there problems is that they never worked for anything in there life; Tom inherited money from his family, and Daisy never worked a job before. After the event of this novel the american dream started to fade away for many, with the start of the great depression. More and more of the rich were filing for bankruptcy and the others strived away from the market during the depression; this left many without jobs, and a declining in GDP. The great depression is an example where the rich fade away for the worst. Toward the end of The Great Gatsby, the wealthy shows their real side and pity for
To begin with the main character Nick Carraway is the one that the reader …show more content…
The characters selfishness is a contribution to show how artificial they are. In the novel Nick is asked for a big favor from Gatsby to set up Daisy to come to his party. This is a big favor to ask from Nick considering his cousin (Daisy) is a married women. In the novel Gatsby says “ She only married you [Tom] because I was poor, and she was tired of waiting for me…in her heart she never loved anyone except me”.(200) Rather than Daisy doing what she knows what is right for her, she goes on to marry Tom because of his wealth. Society see’s upperclassmen to be …show more content…
Daisy and Tom leave the town with no mention of Gatsby. Gatsby is murdered without fulfilling his love for Daisy, and many of the media outlets uses Gatsby’s death as a headline on the paper. At the end of the novel we can see how the rich tend to run away from there problems instead of solving the issue. One of the contributing factors to Daisy and Tom running away from there problems is that they never worked for anything in there life; Tom inherited money from his family, and Daisy never worked a job before. After the event of this novel the american dream started to fade away for many, with the start of the great depression. More and more of the rich were filing for bankruptcy and the others strived away from the market during the depression; this left many without jobs, and a declining in GDP. The great depression is an example where the rich fade away for the worst. Toward the end of The Great Gatsby, the wealthy shows their real side and pity for