Examples Of Love And Money In The Great Gatsby

Money can not describe how you are as a person or how you love a person. Through the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald he makes love and money have a meaning and not worth any time throughout the novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald was named after a famous ancestor of his Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, was the lawyer and writer for “The Star Spangled Banner.” F. Scott Fitzgerald has many famous quotes, one that really caught my attention and made me think is “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” Sometimes this is the only thing that can make things better. In the novel The Great Gatsby, we get a sense of love for their money not true love.

She decided to marry Tom over Gatsby when Tom is abusive. Gatsby was in the Military with hardly any money at all compared to Tom, whose family passed down the wealth. Money comes easy for Tom and his family “I don’t think she ever loved him, Gatsby turned around from a window and looked at me challengingly. You must remember, old sport, she was very excited this afternoon. He told her those things in a way that frightened her, that made it look as if I was some kind of cheap sharper. And the result was she hardly knew what she was saying” (Fitzgerald 152). At the wedding between Tom and Daisy, Gatsby wrote a love letter to her showing how much he loved her. Daisy knows how much she means to Gatsby, but insisted to marry Tom. When Gatsby was in the war, Daisy didn’t have the patience to wait for him even though she promised him that she would wait on him till he got back from the war. Gatsby loved Daisy very much but “Nick sees Gatsby as the incarnation of this national impulse, this "extraordinary gift for hope," using the same term "wonder” to describe Gatsby 's desire for Daisy Buchanan and that of the first American colonists gazing at "the fresh green breast of the new world. For Nick, Gatsby 's lies, his pretensions, and his corruption are "no matter"; nor is his failure to win back Daisy; what matters is the sustaining belief in the value of striving for a "wondrous" object, not its inevitable disappearance

Tom likes Myrtle because he can impress her while with Daisy nothing he does she is happy with. I believe that they are bored with each other. The reasons for the affairs is because they get treated better by someone else than their own spouse. Myrtle doesn’t have lots of money like Tom does. Tom will buy her anything she wants “My dear, she told her sister in a high, mincing shout, most of these fellas will cheat you every time. All they think of is money. I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she gave me the bill you’d of thought she had my appendicitis out” (Fitzgerald 31). Myrtle is getting a big head. Tom will buy her expensive clothes, making her feel like a high class woman and have her be the center of attention. She doesn’t realize how expensive things are because she never has had it done before or she didn’t have the money to pay for