Old Wealth In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Throughout history, the way people became rich was through family. 65 years prior was the California Gold Rush, which gave the common people a taste of the rich life and gave hope to many people that felt they would never be rich. This also caused people to let money go to their head; it didn't matter how they got it as long as they had it, and if they had it, they had power. Within this mindset came more people that wanted the fancy, rich life at any cost. So when Prohibition started up, it was a monumental step to earn money quick.

But if you read closley you will notice that there are a few things that he is annoyed with and a few people that he doesnt really like. By the end of the book he didnt like Gatsby because he thougt he was a lier and a bootlegger. He was working on wall street and even thought that was his dream job because he wanted to make a lot of money he wasnt getting a lot of work or not a lot of people were calling him. And although daisy was his cousin he was upset with her because she was married to Tom but at the same time she was sneaking around with Gatsby even though he liked them together he didn 't like that she was cheating on Tom because she gets very upset when he was cheating on her so why should she do it to him if she loves Gatsby so much she should just divorce Tom and marry him. There were many more people in this book that were unhappy or I un satisfied with their lives.

As America evolves throughout the twentieth century, so does what people view as important, which adds on to what the American Dream means. The culture of the 1920s encouraged spending and materialism so people sought money, power, and expensive items to make them happy. In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, who is the epitome of the 1920s American Dream, saw that becoming rich and notable was the only way to get his Dream which was Daisy: “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.”(Fitzgerald, ch 7) Furthermore, despite the fact that Tom was born with a silver spoon, he still felt he didn’t have the American Dream because Gatsby was more popular than him: “I know I’m not very popular. I don’t have big parties. I suppose you’ve got to

As the economy grows throughout the 1920s, many people waste their money on foolish and unnecessary luxuries. Throughout the story, Gatsby is chasing the American Dream and win back Daisy but, despite his hard work and efforts, Gatsby is still unhappy. Fitzgerald shows

The main character, Jay Gatsby, does not project the same kind of greediness. He is the ideal in the view of the American dream, except from the fact that he does not have a family. He does not care for the wealth that he has built up as it is just a tool for him to get Daisy. The way that he is greedy is how much he wants Daisy. He cannot simply settle for having Daisy, he need her to say that she never even loved Tom, much like greediness in money means you want more and once you get it you want even more.

It has long been said that money can’t buy happiness, but still people continue to use it’s acquisition to try to make themselves happy. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the title character struggles with this realization. The book is set in New York during the ‘Roaring 20’s’, a time famous for its parties and lavishness. The book examines the attitudes toward money within the upper particularly through the lense of the new-money title character, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby dedicated his life to the acquisition of money with the goal of eventually acquiring the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan.

At first, it appears that Siddhartha has everything a person could want and more; he was beloved by his society, family, and friends and excels at everything that he attempts. However, he was disenchanted by this lifestyle and felt he could never truly reach the enlightenment he desired and wanted to venture out and find it. Despite this, his father did not want him to leave, he wanted Siddhartha to find the enlightenment within the Brahim religion like he was suppose to. Siddhartha was not having it and wanted to break away from his fathers hold and eventually he was able to. The wise believer traveled from religion and teachers to new ones every time he became disenchanted with a society and was desperately trying to find the religion or philosophy that would help him achieve it.

While attending the night party, Schindler was able to ingratiate himself with high ranking members of the Nazi Party, which allowed him to establish connections that would help build his factory. After attending the party, Schindler goes to the Judenrat to acquaint himself with Itzhak Stern. Schindler offers to hire Stern to manage his business, but Stern refuses

One might argue that the acquirement of wealth can change one’s social class, or that a person can learn to live like the class above them. These arguments are simply not valid. In the novel, The Great Gatsby , one of the protagonists, Jay Gatsby, was born into a poor family but became rich through shady circumstances. Even with his enormous wealth, he was still never integrated into the upper reaches of high societies. He threw enormous parties for extremely powerful and wealthy people, but

Gatsby believes that wealth is the only way that he will “gain respect” (47) from Daisy so he acquires money by whatever means possible. The need to become wealthy for Daisy, drove Gatsby to the point of getting involved in “illegal activities (123) in order to become rich for Daisy. On the other hand, Daisy Buchanan determines who she will marry by how much money a person has. When Daisy was young, she has a relationship with Gatsby, but breaks it off because he does not “have enough money” (112). She then decides to settle on Tom, who is “abusive” (23) which Daisy tolerates due to the fact that Tom is extremely wealthy.