In the movie the great Gatsby we are made familiar with the lavish lives of 1920’s New York. We see how money can corrupt a person. We see how people get influenced by money and can also see how their lives get controlled by money. In this movie we can see how money influences different characters. Unfortunately the effects of excessive wealth can be damaging because it makes characters with selfish, arrogant and makes them picky to choose their social circle or friends. Firstly talking about how excessive wealth can make character selfish. In the movie Daisy Buchanan is one such character, she is a character who gives more importance to money. She always thinks of her and not for other, taking an example from one of the scene in movie itself …show more content…
about how daisy becomes selfish. In the beginning daisy loved Jay Gatsby, he was a military man at that time. They both spent time with each other and started loving each other despite the fact that Gatsby was poor. After than Gatsby has to go for a war and he tells daisy to wait for him until he comes from the war. In mean time daisy meets a rich man named Tom Buchanan. She gets married to tom, she did not really loved Tom but because he was wealthy she got married and took a selfish decision. Daisy did not even thought of Gatsby; she got attracted by the affluence of Tom. Gatsby always coveted to have daisy, but daisy chooses tom over him because of wealth that he has. So it is the money which plays the different roles in the lives of the characters in the movie and makes the character with selfish behavior and thoughts. Secondly talking about how excessive wealth makes character with arrogant thoughts. Tom Buchanan is one of the characters in the movie who is wealthy and has his own capitalist. He is a man entrenched with wealth, which makes him arrogant, multifaceted. Tom is full of arrogance; he always wants to be in a circle where people are wealthy and with the high social status. One of the examples from movie, when daisy and Gatsby were returning from the plaza they get with an accident in which myrtle the girlfriend of tom dies. After the information driven from the people he gets to know that it was the car of Gatsby in accident. When Tom gets complete information that it was daisy that was driving the car and myrtle got struck and died; after than tom gets arrogant thoughts in his mind and he calls myrtle’s husband named Wilson and makes him influence by his arrogant thoughts to agree with him that it was the Gatsby who killed myrtle. He makes Wilson influenced to kill Gatsby. So it is not only the one scenario where tom gets arrogant, there are many situation where tom is shown arrogant and proud for his wealth. In addition to the selfish behavior and arrogant thoughts, the characters also become picky to choose their friends and social circle.
Many of the characters determine their social friendship based on money. Tom is one of those characters, he goes with the other rich people not because he knows them well and likes them, but because they are in list of wealthy people he meets them. Tom is a character who puts money first than relation. He never speaks of the great conversations he has, the fantastic personality of a friend, or about the urbanization, but only about where, when, and how they received their money. Jordan is also one such character she has been characterizing as a friend of daisy in the movie, she also choose her friends who are wealth and of high society. An example from the movie Jordan and Nick are shown to in love with each other, but as nick is not that rich she would not think of getting married to nick. Also Jordan is always captured with people who are wealthy and belong to high society. Daisy also chooses Tom not because he has some extraordinary characteristic, but she chooses him because of the wealth. So these are the characters that turned out to be picky to choose their social circle and
friends. So we can say that excessive wealth can control people and changes them. In the movie we see how people are affected with the power of wealth. In other words we can say that money controls their lives and influence people in different ways. In the movie we see that how characters like Daisy, Tom and Jordan becomes selfish and arrogant. They become selfish and think of themselves rather than thinking of other people. They also become possessive about their relationship and social status with the other people. They always choose the amount of money that a person has rather than its personality. And at the end of movie we see how dream of Gatsby gets in to erosion due to the power of wealth. However excessive wealth influences different characters in different ways in the movie.
The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald relates to the current event video in a few ways. It applies to the reading of Great Gatsby because of the idea of affluenza; which is a way of saying that somebody was raised wealthy and with privilege, and had no consequences for bad behavior, so they do not know how to act or make the best decisions in the real world. Daisy specifically relates to this because she was raised very wealthy and even married wealthy to keep living her luxurious and privilege filled life. “For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras…” (151). She even got away with killing Myrtle because her and Tom were wealthy enough to just disappear, and
Wealth has both a good and a bad side. It can change the life of a person for the better or worse, and that is clearly shown in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Wealth affects the lives of the characters of Their Eyes Were Watching God very differently than the characters of The Great Gatsby. Janie’s wealth came about, mainly, from her failed relationships.
Gatsby and Greed In this day and age, money is a very important asset to have. One needs to have at least enough to live on, though great amounts are preferable. In The Great Gatsby, by Thomas F. Fitzgerald, having a large amount of money is not enough. It is also the way you acquire the money that matters.
Through his vivid depiction of the valley of the ashes in the acclaimed novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald unveils the truth about 1920s America: economic prosperity did not guarantee happiness and resulted in depreciating conditions for those that were not able to connive their way to the top.
Thesis: Through the flawed characteristics of Tom and Daisy as well as the irresponsible actions of Jordan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, it is evident that the theme “wealth can breed carelessness” causes certain characters to forget about their responsibilities and minimizes any potential forethought.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s obsessive pursuit of goals suggest that Fitzgerald believe that obsessiveness and constant desires often lead to a wrong psychological impact, destructive of one’s traditions, morals, and would have an unplanned end of the lesson or life.
The Wealthy during the 1920s are shown to be egotistical people who only care about their own pleasure. New found independence, new technology, and a ban that only make alcohol more tempting certainly makes this prosperous time a moral dystopia. For the first time for many people, they can do almost anything with money; sometimes at the expense of others. The others were forced to live in poverty, endured careless rich people, and get blamed for their mess. Unfortunately for the rich, the Great Depression slap them back into reality and they have to work hard to get back what they lost. Both history and The Great Gatsby shows that money can be a double-edged sword and that there some things money can’t buy, like love and happiness for example.
The world today is still obsessed with wealth as much as in the great Gatsby
The concept of greed, which was previously centered on consumption, is currently associated with material accumulation and seen as a self-conscious material vice (Robertson 2001, p. 76). Further analysis singles out several types of greed for money and possessions: greed as service and obedience to wealth, greed as love and devotion to wealth, greed as trusting in wealth (Rosner 2007, p. 11). The characters of The Great Gatsby portray all of the aforementioned types of greed. For instance early in the story Gatsby becomes aware of “the youth and m...
Benjamin Franklin once said “Money has never made man happy, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness." This is arguably one of the most cliché quotes of all time. If money cannot provide happiness, then what exactly can it do? The characters of Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan open a door to a world in which money was the sole motivation for their success and the only reason for their power. When the reader uses a Marxist critical lens during chapter four of F. Scott 's Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, the social hierarchy reveals how Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan utilize the importance of money and social power to manipulate others in their lives.
Undoubtedly, Tom and Daisy Buchanan exceedingly demonstrate the wealthy class's lack of integrity. Their lives are filled with material comforts and luxuries and completely empty of true purpose. Daisy's lament is especially indicative of this:
The thought of having an immense sum of money or wealth bring certain people to believe that money can buy almost anything, even happiness, however in reality, it will only lead to lost and false hope. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes a story about a man named Gatsby who is a victim of this so called 'false hope' and 'lost.' Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald clearly demonstrates and elaborates on the relationship between having money, wealth, and one's ethics or integrity by acknowledging the idea that the amount of money or wealth one has attained does affect the relationship between one's wealth and one's ethics whether or not in a pleasant manner. Although money and wealth may not be able to buy a person happiness, it surely can buy a person's mind and action given that a wealthy person has a great deal of power. Fitzgerald analyzes the notion that even though many people dream of being both rich and ethical, it is not possible, and therefore, being poor and ethical is much better than trying to be rich and ethical.
This is something that is evident particularly on page 66 in the novel when Gatsby tells his story to Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, and Nick describes Gatsby's phrases as so threadbare they lack credibility. No matter how much money Gatsby makes, he is never going to be good enough for either Daisy or the other characters. Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are the three main male characters. These men hang out a lot in the novel, even though they are not from the same social class. Tom Buchanan comes from a socially solid old family and is very wealthy.
Three works Cited Materialism started to become a main theme of literature in the modernist era. During this time the economy was good causing jazz to be popular, bootlegging common, and an affair meaning nothing (Gevaert). This negative view of money and the gross materialism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby serves to be a modern theme in the novel. Throughout the novel, the rich possess a sense of carelessness and believe that money yields happiness.
For the rich, pursuing the American Dream defines them; for the poor, the American Dream is an unimaginable reality. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, narrator, Nick Carraway, exposes the harsh realities of pursuing the American Dream and the importance of wealth and opportunity within society. Similarly, in “The Numbers show Rags-to-Riches Happens Only in Movies,” Erin Currier discusses the reliance of success on wealth at birth and struggle for the lower classes to pursue the American dream. Furthermore, in “Science Tests the American Dream”, Orion Jones elaborates on the importance of opportunities in pursuing the American Dream, and tracks the outcomes of 81,000 Americans for 11 years. By providing examples of unequal distribution