Love And Money In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby there is a common theme of love and money. In the story, there is a conflict of belief, of whether Daisy truly loved men or whether she was in love with the money. There is clear evidence in the, “Gatsby’s Mentors: Queer Relations Between Love and Money in The Great Gatsby,” that she was truly in love with money. However, in the Best Character Analysis: Daisy Buchman Character Analysis- The Great Gatsby, it seemed that she was sincerely in love with Gatsby. I do not believe she was truly in love with the men, because in the actual novel, it shows clearly that she is a follower of the money, rather than her heart. With help from the sources, and the novel I will show how Daisy loved neither Gatsby, nor Tom, but rather she loved the money. The “Gatsby’s Mentors: Queer Relations Between Love

The article states, “Given how much is made of Tom’s horses—his fine stables and polo playing—it is logical to suppose that he had business dealings in Daisy’s hometown, a city known for the Kentucky Derby and the raising of Thoroughbreds.” This suggested that Daisy was the kind of girl that found the richest person in her town to marry. In the novel, it goes into more detail on how rich man of a man Tom was when it said, “His family were enormously wealthy “— even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach — but now he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest”. In many ways Daisy was following her heart, it is just that her heart when marrying Tom, but her heart was following Tom’s money. This seemed to be true with Daisy’s actions throughout the story, for in the story Daisy chooses to marry Tom, instead of a young poor Gatsby. Daisy supposedly loved Gatsby but, chose to marry Tom and left Gatsby since he had not received his wealth yet. Later in the book in a