The Effects Of Money In The Great Gatsby

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The Effects of Love and Money Money and love can have effects on different things in life. It can be different things such as putting a divide between people and the ones they love because of different social statuses. The song “Jacob’s Latter” by Mark Wills states, “Jacob was a dirt poor farm boy/Raised at the fork in the road in a clapboard house/And Rachael was a land baron’s daughter/Born with a silver spoon in her mouth/Her daddy said he wouldn’t stand/For Rachael to waste her life with a common man.” The song describes a young, upper-class woman who falls in love with a lower class man and because of his class they cannot be together. Just like the song, The Great Gatsby tells the story of a forbidden love. The social status and money create a divide between people based on marriage and love in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Daisy and Tom is an example of a bad marriage. For example, Tom treats Daisy like she is crazy or dumb at times. According to Fitzgerald, “She does, though. The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and does not know she is doing’’ (138). Tom tells people that Daisy that she is crazy which make her seem foolish. Daisy was not sure of her marrying Tom in the beginning. “On the day before her wedding, Daisy is afraid and wants to back …show more content…

Tom thinks his relationship between himself and Myrtle is just another affair. “Here’s your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it” (32). Tom did not care about the dogs because he did not care about the money, which it seems that he did not care about Myrtle. Tom beats Myrtle, which it is not the best thing to do in a relationship. “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! Shouted Mrs. Wilson. “Ill say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-“ Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”(41). If Tom hit her this time he possibly did it another time, which it is not the best thing to do in a

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