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Thomas D’Invilliers once said, “then wear the gold hat if that will move her.” The lengths some would go to for love are vast and incomprehensible. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story focuses on love and wealth combined in the 1920’s in West Egg, Long Island. The narrator Nick Carraway observes the romance the blooms between his cousin Daisy Buchanan and the inclusive Jay Gatsby and the tension between trying to choose a true love, all in the summer of 1922.

Daisy Buchanan is Nick Carraway’s distant cousin from the Midwest, when she first meets Nick when he visits her in Long Island, she comes off as a simple minded, ditzy woman. Daisy is married to a man by the name of Tom Buchanan, a wealthy and rather rude man. As Nick first meets Daisy and her small family, he takes notes of their upscale lifestyle and housing. Throughout meeting his cousin, Nick constantly admires and takes notes of his cousins perplexing beauty. Perhaps Daisy also knows the extent of her charming and gorgeous self and those attributes could have …show more content…

As the two converse and catch up, Daisy leaves to the bathroom where Gatsby confides in Nick something about Daisy. “Her voice is full of money”, is what Gatsby confides in Nick. Gatsby did not inherit money such as Daisy did, which make the two very different which frightens Gatsby. Inherited wealth is more valuable than money wealth worked for. Nobody’s voice though is literally full of money. It is not physical money stuffed in someone’s mouth. Being full of money in Daisy’s case is her background. Daisy’s background of money from her family and her husband make her different from Gatsby. Gatsby worked for his wealth, he rose from poverty to his lavish life. But despite the wealth Gatsby has acquired, it is no match for the inherited wealth of the

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