What Does Money Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Their distancing during the development of the novel shows that they truly do not love each other for their qualities as people but the quality of their pockets and their name. Same can be said about Gatsby’s obsessive nature and his attraction to Daisy. The lopsided affair shows that Gatsby’s one true connection to Daisy was the ambition for a better wealthier life. As he values Daisy’s wealth and her ambition for a wealthier lifestyle. Gatsby places Daisy on a pedestal and very clearly is chasing a past that has moved on.

From his initial youth, Gatsby loathed poverty and longed for prosperity and sophistication. Such a short title, The Great Gatsby raises a lot of questions. There are two ways to read the title. One is to see it as an ironic and another is to understand it directly. Gatsby rises to the high class of society in a dishonest way; he's earned his fortune through illegal activities and tries his best to hide his past.

Once you deeply analyze the characters relationships you come the realization that love is barely present. Each relationship appears to contain love for the wrong reasons. They portray love as money and riches. The women in the book find a man based on his money and how he can provide for her. They fail to search for a man they have an actual emotional connection with, because of this the men feel like the only way to find “love” is becoming rich and flaunting it for everyone to see.. Nick is the only one who begins to experience true love towards Gatsby.

Tom being very rich in which he has acquired from his ancestors – the “old money”- brags a lot about his money, wealth, and status to others. For example, he brags to Nick about his house and stables, introduces Myrtle to Nick and others, belittles those who are not the dominant race, and plays around with George Wilson if he will sell the car to George, implying that he would not make a profit of reselling it. We can see that Tom is not emotionally secure, and therefore talks about whatever he has to make himself feel better. Even the women Tom is acquaintance with- all from low classes-has the indication that he tries to boost his insecurity by “controlling

Daisy displays her greed throughout the novel; she marries Tom Buchanan because of his wealth. Gatsby himself realizes Daisy’s obsession with money: “‘She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me’” (Fitzgerald 130). The quote reveals

The form of greed Paul shows us is greed caused by his endless desperation for more money because he believed that if he had a lot of money, his mother would finally love him. Greed is commonly associated with selfishness the common idea of a greedy person is selfish. Paul shows us that greed can exist where selfishness does not. His actions have nothing to do with self gain but yet still demonstrate a form of greed which was rather unconventional. However, the events of the story demonstrate that even such a type of unselfish greed can be self harming as his desperation for more money resulted in his death, even if none of it was for himself.

In the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby, the author identifies a huge problem throughout the novel. Fitzgerald provided us with many characters that displayed infidelity, for example Tom and Daisy. Daisy stayed married to Tom because of his great deal of money and assets, though deep down, she felt miserable and melancholy about the relationship. On the other hand Tom felt he could do as he pleased because of his physical stature and how much money he had. They would both constantly cheat on each other and have relationships with other partners, however they did not get a divorce due to their own selfish reasons.

Although Gatsby knows that Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, he hosts dazzling parties and even “[buys] the [mansion] so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald, 78). If Gatsby is to truly love Daisy, instead of destroying her marriage, he would have let her go. However, because of his extreme devotion towards Daisy, he dreams of a utopia where their feelings for each other is mutual. Thus, he demands her to say that she has never loved Tom to affirm that she loves him only, but Daisy does fall in love with Tom at some point in her marriage, in between the five years of Gatsby’s absence. Nonetheless, Gatsby does not give up.

The American Family Myrtle and George Wilson were once two passionate lovers, caring for nothing else in the world but each other. However, Myrtle’s selfish aura led her to fall in love with not a man, but a thing: money. She became unhappy with her husband and decided to move on to someone more enticing, someone wealthy like Tom Buchanan. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by Fitzgerald, the Wilsons are discontent with their lives by portraying the theme of how when money is involved, they will become dissatisfied with one another and turn to lives of greed and selfishness. The source of Myrtle and George Wilson’s problems is that they have different viewpoints on each other which lead to Myrtle’s dissatisfaction with him.

The Great Gatsby written by Fitzgerald shows readers a furious “Jazz Age”. People were crazy about money, even taken advantage of any ways in order to possess property, violating the moral conscience or breaking the law though. People considered wealth as the symbol of success and convinced by the desire for the material that only money can make them happy; only having money, wealth, and social status can make their dreams come true. There are a variety of embodiments of money worship in this novel, as Daisy most typical. As “the golden girl”, Daisy’s life goal is the pursuit of the eternal happiness, but she insistently sets this kind of joy on money.

Gatsby’s large income isn’t enough to satisfy his happiness. He feels the need to overflow his house with expensive items in order to show-off his wealth to Daisy. This showcases his carelessness and immodesty with money which is a huge part of his personality. You could say the he prefers form over function. Nick on the other hand, while still possessing money, decides to lead a simpler life without all the luxuries.

Society vs. the Individual Although society may bear many constraints on a human being, ultimately he or she is free to make his or her own choices. This is very evident in Scott Fitzgerald 's "The Great Gatsby" Jay Gatsby believes that society limits him when he falls in love with a rich woman and is unable to marry her because of his financial situation. He decides to spend his entire life in illegal activities in an attempt to get rich and rise in social stature. However, in the end, he is rejected by the woman and is consequently killed. this shows It was not his society, but he himself who decided his fates not this case Gatsby chose his own fate, he knew right from wrong and still participated in illegal activity.

Daisy is simply the vehicle for Gatsby’s impossible dream, and not really a person to Gatsby at all. Even Nick projects only what he wants to see upon her, after one of Gatsby’s parties. He sees her distaste for the party and says, “She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand” (114). However, Nick is misinterprets Daisy’s sentiment, she sees an awfulness in the lack of simplicity- the showiness of money repels her and her image of Gatsby in those simple days when they first met fully contradicts what she sees now. But Nick sees only what he wants to see.

He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously— eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand.” (Fitzgerald, 149) Daisy is the heir of a rich family, a chance that is one in a million. This heritage had made her always have the comfortable presence of money, never going without. Gatsby was quite the opposite, where he was “ a penniless young man” (Fitzgerald, 149). Thus, Gatsby had realized this and had decided then and there that he would continue this lie of money, all in order to be the star in Daisy’s life. But, this would change after the war.

Similarly, the characters in the The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald reinvented their identities in order to change their lives for the better. The main character, Jay Gatsby, is a wealthy, mysterious gentleman who throws extravagant parties in his mansion however his determination to succeed is rooted in his tragic background. Myrtle is bored of her plain middle class life and her affair with a rich married men is her only chance to experience the upper class lifestyle. Daisy is a money hungry wife who appears to have the perfect life however beneath the surface she sufferers of loneliness. At the end of the novel, their unsuccessful attempts at rebirth led to the death of three characters.