The Great Gatsby By [capitalization issue] Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates the materialistic lives of the wealthy and upper-class people during the Jazz age. The lives the characters in the novel are living are very much shown through their wealth. Throughout the novel the issues of the american dream, and wealth are shown both literally and metaphorically. An example of people only being happy though materialistic things is Both Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby both drive beautiful cars as a way of projecting their wealth. Gatsby’s car was described as very luxurious and very expensive, In the text it Gatsby says “It’s pretty isn’t it old sport? Haven’t you ever seen it before” and then it goes on to explain the car itself. “Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and …show more content…
She rejects Gatsby the first time because he wasn’t wealthy. In the text it says that when Daisy went into Gatsby’s mansion for the first time she was overwhelmed by everything she had seen it says “they’re such beautiful shirt, she sobbed, her muffled in the folds. It makes me sad because i’ve never seen such beautiful shirts” She begins crying over the beauty of some shirts that Gatsby showers her in. If Gatsby didn’t have any of this Daisy wouldn’t pay attention to him. [set up your quote - provide context and speaker before the quote; don't start a sentence with a quote] “For daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.” (151) this demonstrates how Daisy was so materialistic and how hard and sad it was because it wasn’t a real way of living life. Daisy throughout the story we realize is very fake and worked with her beauty up to wealth and then got married to