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Examples Of Envy In The Great Gatsby

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In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald ties in the seven deadly sins into the novel primarily envy, gluttony, lust, and greed. “On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight….(pg 43)” Beside Gatsby being very rich, he is most famous for his …show more content…

Jay gatsby's resents tom Buchanan because of him marrying Jays one true love Daisy. gatsby has been in love with daisy since the day he met her. When Gatsby went to war, daisy had a lack of affection and even though she loved him, she ended up marrying tom. "...he says he's read a Chicago paper for years on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy's name. (pg 64)” Gatsby tries everything he possibly can to get daisy back through his money, luxurious home, the parties he throws everything he does, buys or puts together is all for daisy. Just see her, talk to her and most importantly get her back. Even though tom and daisy are married tom is cheating on her with myrtle wilson. there are parts in the book where myrtle feels jealousy towards tom's wife because she wants to be his only lover. she is from lower class she evies what they have, which is why she found tom because he is her dream man. When Tom, jordan, and nick stop in the valley of ashes for gas, nick "realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife (pg …show more content…

Daisy will do anything for material wealth ex: break rules, and takes no responsibility for her action (myrtle wilson's death). Even though her husband Tom, treats her like shit, she is more amused with the fact of old money this way she would be rich for her whole life. Daisy is in love with gatsby but he went away to war. "Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mind. Say: 'Daisy's change' her mine!'" Tom basically bought Daisy for a wife with a 350,000 pearl necklace even though Daisy wanted to change her mind with the letter jay sent her; the night before the wedding, Tom said it was because she was drunk. Although Jay seems to be greedy he only illegally sells bonds for Daisy to impress his one true love. Nick believes that jay is a pretty decent guy he's the only rich man to show compassion for anyone else. “they’re a rotten crowd, you're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” the only compliment nick ever gave

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After spending years married to Tom, she has become used to looking into the material items. When reunited with Gatsby she only points her attention on what he has materialistically: “They’re such beautiful shirts … it makes me sad because I’ve never seen such-such beautiful shirts before” (pg 92). The reason Daisy is so upset is because she acknowledges that she could have had multiple materialistic gains whist being married to Gatsby in a love-filled relationship. When she sees what she could have had her mirage of a perfect life begins to crumble. But this leads to her in the end resorting to her false outward appearance since it is easier for her to fall back into her lie that confront her own truth, that she is unhappy presently.

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