Great Gatsby Money and Life Lesson

Money is one of the most important things in our lives. We need it to eat, drink and even shelter ourselves our whole life basically depend on money. people spend years trying to get a degree to be able to have a wealthy life in the future. In the novel The Great Gatsby, it proclaims the theme that “Money can buy anything, but happiness and ambition/wealth often leads to despair/corruption” The author of this book Fitzgerald mostly communicates his social commentary through the character of Gatsby.

In the early 20’s in New York City and long island a character from the novel jay Gatsby, purchased a mansion in West Egg the opposite of the East Egg which is two different cities separated by the Valley of Ashes. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy young man known for the humongous parties that he usually throws he is a millionaire who worked hard to purchase a mansion at west egg the “ new money city” Although Gatsby throws the biggest festive parties at his mansion he never “party” most importantly he never drinks, the parties that he throws doesn’t bring him the same kind of joy that it brings to his guess .In the novel The Great Gatsby, East egg symbolizes “old money” and west egg symbolizes “new money”. “I lived at west egg the— well, the less fashionable of the two, thought this is most superficial tag to express the bizarre’ said Jay Gatsby this quote demonstrate that money may bring happiness but it will be a superficial type of happiness especially to Tom Buchanan he stated in the novel “oh I’ll stay in the east, don’t you worry, he said glancing at Daisy… I’d be a God damn fool to live anywhere else” this explains how money and wealth may bring corruption. Tom thinks he’s to wealthy to be living anywhere else not even on the west egg.

A primary way Fitzgerald illustrate the theme “Money can buy anything but Happiness” is through the character of Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy character from the novel, Gatsby’s house was described as a “a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville… with a tower on one side and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn Garden” although he had everything he needed Gatsby wasn’t satisfied with the material things that he owned, the only reason why Gatsby’s wealth mattered to him in this novel is because he wanted to win his lover Daisy Fay Buchanan back so he could be content. Daisy Fay is Gatsby’s past, present and future Although Gatsby’s love for daisy is much more intense than her love. For him Gatsby would do anything for his lover, Gatsby even bought his mansion so daisy’s house could be right across from the bay. He worked to be a wealthy young man because he knew Daisy wouldn’t accept him as a poor man. As stated in the novel he “looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at by a man”. Even though Gatsby was a wealthy man and had everything that he needed he still did everything he could for his lover. Money may be able to buy a bigger house, a bigger car or the prettiest diamonds but it can’t buy real love false love can be bought but true love is priceless.

The symbol of hope and wealth has a very strong connotation throughout the novel. Fitzgerald symbolized the symbol of wealth and hope thought many different characters and events from the novel especially through the “green light”. The green light at the end of daisy’s dock, is a symbol within the novel to Gatsby, it represents his dream, love and hope it also associate with Gatsby’s quest for daisy. ‘Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic futurek that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms father” Fitzgerald uses the green light to signify hope for the future and “one fine morning ‘our dreams will come true.

Happiness is the resolution of life of course everyone wants to be wealthy and have money. But money doesn’t bring actual happiness, it brings an occasional type of happiness and you’re not rich until you have something that money cannot buy for example Jay Gatsby was known for being a wealthy young man but all his life, he worked hard to be acceptable enough for his lover Daisy because she was the only thing that brought him joy. You can have all the money in this world, but it can’t buy you happiness and it certainly can’t buy you love.

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