Essay About Money In The Great Gatsby

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In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it shows that money can corrupt a person’s life. The novel’s main characters attain a life of luxury that they never want to leave. They allow the pursuit of money to control their every move. The main character, Jay Gatsby, tries to improve himself with his original dream. Nevertheless, after meeting with Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby became obsessed with earning enough money to win her over. Gatsby lies and tries to impersonate a person who has old money rather than new money. Gatsby, Daisy, and Myrtle demonstrate that the American Dream dead in Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s dream is to find true love, he has everything he needs like new money, but what he doesn’t have is the social status that’s what his true love want and doesn’t pick him over Tom. In the novel, Gatsby attempts to rewrite the past to make it fit his idyllic version of events. His first meeting with Daisy reveals his intention to turn back time. At the luncheon at nick’s house, Gatsby “………” Ordinarily, Gatsby tries to improve himself with his original dreams. However, after meeting up with Daisy Buchanan, He now what’s = what is the money to try and win Daisy over. To win her over, Gatsby had to try to lie about his life and try to lie in order to look …show more content…

In the long run, Myrtle is a woman; she thinks that she is at a disadvantage. In the novel, Myrtle says “Well, I married him.” She says ambiguously, “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe…” (Chapter 2 or 1) Myrtle married George Wilson and thought that he knew something about love. However, all class.he wasn’t fit to lick her shoe, because all he is, is just a stick and can’t do anything to defend her or show his love for her. Furthermore, she gets murdered for the way she pursues her

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