Examples Of Materialism In The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, was really specifict on focusing the story in one main theme, materialism. Back in the 1920’s people just wanted to have fun, drink, party and live a crazy life, but for some people happiness were not only the parties, money was a major to-have. The love for it consumed them to the point of making them chain to high level bank accounts in order to feel something close to happiness in their minds. And the author shows this people’s life in the novel, since the beginning to the end, starting with the main character to the less important ones. Like Daisy Buchanan, a money lover. Daisy is like a “gold digger.” At the begging of the story I thought she was simply another girl who didnt had hope in his man, because he had to fight in war and were lost for another few years. When the story is developing you actually become to like her, a girl who found his man again and chose to be happy, but at the end of the story your feelings and thoughts about Daisy give a 360 turn. A man died because of her when he was blamed for killing someone while driving at high speed through the Valley of Ashes when it was actually her driving the car. An atrocity was committed and Daisy’s reaction was a heartless, disgusting, dishonest, evil and cruel.

Some people, eager for money, have wondered from their faith and pierced themselves with many griefs .” God is really specific in this passage, he tells us again that loving money is no good. It drives us miles away from our faith and relationship with God, and makes us be more vulnerable to make wrong in order to get it. An excellent example of it is Daisy. She was totally unhappy with the decisions she made in the past because of money. She pursuit wealthy no matter the consequences, and at the end not caring about what is right or her feelings, she decided again to go for money and not for her faith, love and a new