Examples Of Greed In The Great Gatsby

America is Still Dreaming to Pursuit of the Happiness: The corruption of American Dream and Moral

Do people really chase their dream or money? Many people work very hard to achieve something they have dreamed of or to live in a successful life, but many times, many people forget what they’ve been chasing like Gatsby. In the novel The Great Gatsby, one of the main character Jay Gatsby shows how he is desperately following his dream in the corrupted system for his lady Daisy and the Buchanan shows how they already have been corrupted by their old money and careless about their basic conscience. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents the idea that the desire for money is what corrupted the American Dream in the 1920s. The perception

Even though, Gatsby did almost achieve his dream by being part of a new money, having an ostentatious car and having an enormous mansion. He did not achieve his real dream, “I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them” when innocent Gatsby got shot and killed by Wilson, Daisy ran away with her husband Tom (Fitzgerald 164). Gatsby’s real dream was Daisy, he achieved many things because he wanted to get back with old money Daisy. Daisy, which it symbolizes money to Gatsby corrupted his life, if Daisy did not tell Gatsby that she is going to wait for him, first Gatsby wouldn’t work in the corrupted system; bootlegging. Also, Gatsby would not have died in this tragic way. Gatsby had the magnificent party every weekend for every people at his enormous house but after when he died “No phone message arrived…I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn‘t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky…A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about…like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees” so many different people showed up at his house every weekend but at his funeral, no one even bothers themselves to give a call to Gatsby’s house (Fitzgerald 161). Gatsby’s life must have been ostentatious but in the real side of him, he lost all the real people and left with all the phonies. The money and entertainment from Gatsby’s mansion are the only things that what people are attracted to Gatsby and people just used him as one of their